Ukraine has plans to build an indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle to survey enemy positions and it has a crowd-sourcing campaign to fund the program.
Category: UAV
The first director of unmanned weapon systems for the U.S. Navy
After U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced in April that he was creating a post that reports to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations on the service’s efforts in unmanned systems, the Pentagon has announced the first officer to head the N99 office.
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Apache teams up with MQ-1C to fire AGM-114
AH-64s from the U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) conducted manned and unmanned teaming (MUM-T) with a MQ-1C from Company E, 3rd CAB for a AGM-114 live-fire exercise.
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McCain: U.S. Navy should be looking at drones to replace manned aircraft
Former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, U.S. Sen. John McCain told National Journal that the U.S. “Navy should be looking at drones to replace manned aircraft.”
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Russia has started using UAVs to monitor its Arctic region
The Russian Defense Ministry’s Northern Fleet press service says its Arctic coastal forces has started to operate Takhion and Eleron-3 drones over its Arctic region for monitoring purposes.
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