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The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) has recognized the 80-hour, 2-minute and 52-second world record flight by a Aurora Flight Sciences Orion UAV in December 2014.
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Photo: Aurora Flight Sciences
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A Chinese made consumer photography drone was shot down along the Line of Control (LoC) in Bhimber, Azad Kasmir in Pakistan and the latter has blamed India for flying the drone inside its border.
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Photo: Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations
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Britain’s upcoming Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) could propose having unmanned aerial vehicles operate from its new aircraft carriers.
Photo: Corporal Steve Follows RAF/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Lebanese Armed Force has recovered a Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicle from waters off its northern port city of Tripoli on Jul. 11.
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Photos: Lebanese Armed Forces
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The U.S. Army has finally retired its Hunter UAV at Fort Huachuca on Jul. 10.
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Photo: U.S. Army
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