The U.S. military and the Japanese Self-Defense Force plan to jointly use maintenance facilities and hangars on Guam to support unmanned aircraft operations.
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Category: UAV
X-47B gets modified tail hook
A team from Fleet Readiness Center South West (FRCSW) at Naval Air Station North Island was asked to redesign the hook point for the X-47B after tests found that the original hook was inadequate during roll-in arrestment tests.
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Viper Strike scored direct hits against high speed vehicles
During a recent two-day test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, GBU-44/E Viper Strike munition launched from a Cessna Caravan test aircraft scored direct hits against high speed vehicles.
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U.S. operated secret Global Hawk missions out of South Australia
From 2001 to 2006, the United States secretly flew Global Hawk missions out of RAAF Edinburgh near Adelaide.
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Taiwan’s 5-year military modernization program to focus on armed UAVs and mobile long-range strike capability
Taiwan’s military want to spend the next five-years modernizing itself by adding mobile land-based long-range precision strike capability and armed drones to its arsenal.
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