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The U.S. Navy’s MQ-8C will soon be flying its heaviest payload carried to date when it starts testing the Single System Multi-Mission Airborne Mine Detection (SMAMD) system.
Photo: U.S. Navy
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The U.S. Air Force has selected Leidos Inc. to develop a $26 million prototype advanced high power microwave (HPM) weapon system to counter drones.
Graphic: AFRL
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India will longer seek to buy the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle from the United States, Hindustan Times reports.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The first low-rate initial production MQ-4C in the B8 configuration, with multi-intelligence capabilities, has been delivered to NAS Patuxent River on Feb. 1.
Photo: Northrop Grumman
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According to the NHK, the United States is seeking permission from Tokyo to deploy seven MQ-9s at Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Kanoya air base in Kagoshima Prefecture.
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