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Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Air Vehicle Intelligence and Autonomy (AVIA) Lab at Penn State University (PSU), have successfully demonstrated the use of cooperative autonomous soaring algorithms to keep unmanned sailplanes aloft for sustained flight durations.
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Photo: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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Since 2011, U.S. MQ-9s have been operating out of an airport in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. A U.S. Embassy spokesman told The Associated Press by email that Washington has shut down the drone operations in the country.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
DARPA has released an illustration of the winner of the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) program. The background photo for the illustration shows USS Lassen in a passage exercise with JS Harasume from 2011.
Source: DARPA
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The Pentagon awarded Northrop Grumman a $93 million contract for the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (Tern) program – phase 3 on Dec. 24.
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DARPA image
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has delivered the final two RQ-1 unmanned aerial vehicles to the Italian Air Force. The delivery also marked an end to the Predator A production line.
By SCDBob (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons
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