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  Danes Go Dutch For Ravens

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 4:22 PM on Apr 16, 2012

  The Danish military is borrowing two Dutch Raven unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems for half a year. Each system consists of three mini UAVs and a ground station.Dutch Ministry ... Read More >>

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  Georgia Showcases UAV

  Posted by Robert Wall 10:33 AM on Apr 11, 2012

  The Georgian government is showing off an indigenously developed tactical unmanned aircraft (watch a video of the system here).The defense ministry says the system has 8 hours of e... Read More >>

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  Mum on India

  Posted by Christina Mackenzie 6:40 PM on Mar 22, 2012

  Today Charles Edelstenne, the CEO of Dassault Aviation, presenting the company's annual results, threw a glimmer of light on one of the reasons his company is now negotiating a co... Read More >>

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  Ultra-Long-Endurance Progress

  Posted by Graham Warwick 8:42 PM on Mar 19, 2012

  It's proving a long wait, given they are supposed to be "rapid" programs, but Boeing has begun taxi tests of its private-venture Phantom Eye hydrogen-fueled high-altitude, long-end... Read More >>

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  EADS Shifts UAV Focus to Technology from Talarion

  Posted by Robert Wall 8:59 AM on Mar 08, 2012

  EADS appears to be rethinking its push of the Talarion unmannned aircraft, after a prolonged period of unsuccessfully trying to get Germany and other European countries to back its... Read More >>

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  Post-Nimrod: Preserving the U.K.'s MPA Skills

  Posted by Robert Wall 10:13 AM on Feb 29, 2012

  The U.K. has dispatched 33 RAF aircrew overseas to help preserve their maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) skills in the wake of the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 fleet. As with its ... Read More >>

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  French Harfang UAV Checks Out of Afghanistan

  Posted by Robert Wall 4:06 PM on Feb 27, 2012

  The French air force has ended its Heron unmanned aircraft operations in Afghanistan. The system — called Harfang in the French military inventory — logged more than 66... Read More >>

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  Entente Cordiale

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 4:35 PM on Feb 18, 2012

  There are three parts to the UAV accords:  France to evaluate Watchkeeper; Dassault and BAE to continue joint work on MALE UAV (presumably in Mantis/Heron TP/Reaper class, mul... Read More >>

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  Huge New Order for Throwable Robots

  Posted by Paul McLeary 4:30 PM on Feb 15, 2012

  Just last month, we told you about JIEDDO’s plans to send 400 small, throwable robots to Afghanistan for operational user tests to help identify new tools to get left of th... Read More >>

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  U.S. Weapon Systems 2013 Budget Summary

  Posted by Michael Bruno 3:56 PM on Feb 13, 2012

  Thanks to several Washington sources, we've gotten our hands on the summary of weapon systems request info from the Pentagon today. See the PDF here.Some of our budget stories, ava... Read More >>

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