A Global Hawk operating over Afghanistan lost power to control its ailerons and spoilers after an electrical connector came lose and damaged a line replacement unit.
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Category: UAV
Member of McDonnell family sues Boeing over UAV patents
The son of Sanford McDonnell, a former chairman and ceo of McDonnell Douglas, has filed a lawsuit against Boeing and Insitu over patents for an unmanned aerial vehicle landing system.
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USAF set to cancel blimp program
The U.S. Air Force is about the cancel the Blue Devil Block 2 airship program just as its about to make its maiden flight.
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AAI, CSC and Insitu to compete for U.S. Navy UAV contracts
The U.S. Navy has awarded AAI, CSC and Insitu contracts to replace the ScanEagle UAV. The three companies will compete to provide the Navy with UAV ISR services till 2017.
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Israel, Russia exchanged software codes
A set of emails from Stratfor said Israel and Russia had exchange software codes of Georgian UAVs for Iranian Tor M1 air defense systems.
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