Aviation News
George Vardoulakis, Northrop Grumman vice president for medium-range tactical systems, revealed that his company’s Bat UAV was deployed to Afghanistan with U.S. Special Operations Command for detecting IEDs.
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The U.S. Navy has concluded its current round of testing the X-47B. The flight tests last from Nov. 9-19.
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Grand Forks Air Force Base announced that the RQ-4 Block 40 has deployed to a war zone on Sept. 19, 2013.
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The Lijian stealth UAV from Hongdu has made its first flight on Nov. 21 at 13:00 local time. The flight was 20 minutes.
The U.S. Air Force has dropped a plan to buy a “universal payload adapter” to attach sensors from the U-2 to the RQ-4.
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