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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Category: UAV
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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Missile strike on drone wreckage in Pakistan
The wreckage of a drone that crashed in Pakistan was destroyed by a missile strike from another drone as Pakistani troops were searching for it nearby.
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Israel sells $1.6 billion arms to Azerbaijan
Israeli Aerospace Industries will sell unmanned aerial vehicles and missile defense systems to Azerbaijan for $1.6 billion.
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