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Twenty-three U.S. members of Congress have penned a letter to U.S. President Obama, seeking to have his administration supply surplus MQ-1 UAVs to Jordan in order to fight ISIL in Syria.
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A U.S. Air Force RQ-4B carrying the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) payload has clocked 10,000 flying hours.
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Dassault announced on Mar. 9 that its nEUROn UCAV technology demonstrator has completed its test campaign in France.
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A report by Kurdish Globe says an Iranian UAV came down near Khurmatoo town, 75 kilometers south of Kirkuk, Iraq.
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59 year-old Steve Edgar used to fly the F-117 in the U.S. Air Force before switching to UAVs after 9/11. Since retiring from the military, Edgar has put his skills acquired to helping farmers improve their crop yields using small unmanned aircraft.