On Dec. 19, NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance aircraft successfully completed its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base.
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Northrop Grumman/Alyssa Cooper
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Category: UAV
Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 successfully fired UMTAS missile
Turkey became one of the few countries in the world to come up with an armed indigenous UAV when a Bayraktar TB2 successfully fired a UMTAS missile on Dec. 17.
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U.S. Air Force to have enlisted pilots flying RQ-4
For the first time since World War II, the U.S. Air Force will have enlisted pilots in its ranks. However, they will not be sitting in any cockpits as the job requires them to pilot the RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Bobby Cummings
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Taranis completes third and final series of flight tests
BAE Systems revealed that it has concluded the third and final series of flight tests for the Taranis UCAV.
By Mike Young (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Tactical UAV from Kratos completed second flight
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, which manufactures aerial targets for the U.S. military, has completed the second test flight of its self-funded tactical unmanned aerial vehicle.
Image: Kratos
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