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Insitu has came up with a new concept to give the ScanEagle UAS an ability to be launched and recovered without the need for a catapult or sky hook.
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FLARES – Flying Launch and Recovery System from Insitu on Vimeo.
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Israeli Air Force’s Patriot missile division has remodeled its yearly training program to prepare its operators on how to handle UAVs.
By DoD Photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo, Graphic Proccessing by User:MathKnight (File:IAF-Patriot-2014-Chuck-Hagel.jpg) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Correction: Jane’s pointed out that this was the second crash. The first was Nov. 16, 2014 at Aberporth.
A British Army Watchkeeper UAV has crashed at MOD Boscombe Down while landing on Nov. 2. This is the first crash of the program.
Photo: Peter Russell LBIPP/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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Lockheed Martin was awarded a $4.6 million contract for the continued development of a maritime canister-launched small unmanned aerial vehicle based on the Vector Hawk.
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Photo: Lockheed Martin
The Russian Southern Military District reported that a Russian base in Armenia has taken delivery of the Orland-10 unmanned aerial vehicle.
By Mike1979 Russia (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons