Aviation News
Izvestia daily reported on Thursday that Irkut will build a UAV for Vietnam to evaluate. While the evaluation if for civilian applications, Irkut’s official conceded that the UAV can be used for military purposes.
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Turkey has sold 10 Bayraktar mini unmanned aerial vehicles to Qatar for $25 million. This is the first UAV to enter Qatar’s inventory.
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Tawian’s Army is searching for a UAV that went missing early Wednesday while on a routine training mission over the seas off eastern Taiwan.
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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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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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