Aviation News
It has been reported that Taiwan’s Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology has completed a prototype jet-powered UAV, however development was shelved as the drone cannot meet the military’s new requirements.
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Nigeria has unveiled an indigenous UAV dubbed GULMA, which means gossip.
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Ireland’s Minister for Defense Alan Shatter revealed that the country deployed its own UAVs to Africa in 2008 and one was lost there.
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The Philippine military has issued a tender for 6 sets of small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the Marine Corps.
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U.S. Defense officials told Washington Times that one of the reasons China declared an Air Defense Identification Zone is to prevent the Global Hawk from spying along its coast line.
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