Aviation News
The U.S. Air Force will continue to fly the Global Hawk Block 30 at least till September 2013 until it sorts out the fate of the drone with Congress.
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Boeing Military Aircraft President Christopher Chadwick his company’s analysts expect the UAV market to shrink by 20 percent in 2014 when U.S. troops complete their scheduled withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Libya had to close down the airspace above Benghazi airport after militants fired anti-aircraft guns at two U.S. drones flying overhead.
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A German-based company, 3W Modellmotoren, said its resellers might have resold some of its technologies to Belarus for the use in unmanned aerial vehicles.
Continue reading “Belarus UAV might be using EU components that are embargoed”
Guam will be home to the MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance drone starting from 2017, the U.S. Navy said.
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