News About UAVs 14-MAY-08 en-us Tucson AZ (SPX) May 13, 2008 - Raytheon has teamed with Swift Engineering, Inc. to provide the U.S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps with an unmanned aircraft system for their respective Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Tier 2 missions. Raytheon leads the team and offers aircraft and mission systems integration with connectivity to the customers' combat systems and command and control systems.]]> ]]> Brussels (AFP) May 9, 2008 - Experts from the EU Satellite Centre in Spain will travel to Georgia to help investigate recent incidents involving Georgian drones overflying the rebel region of Abkhazia, an EU spokeswoman said Friday.]]> Sukhumi, Georgia (AFP) May 4, 2008 - The war of nerves between Georgia, Russia and the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia stepped up a notch Sunday, as Abkhaz officials claimed to have downed two unmanned Georgian spy planes.]]> Charlotte NC (SPX) May 02, 2008 - General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products and Elbit Systems of America recently conducted the first U.S. demonstration of the Skylark II Small Tactical /Tier II-class Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) for representatives of the U.S. armed forces. The event was held at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.]]> ]]> Southborough MA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 - Protonex Technology has announced that it has received a $1.62 million contract with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for advanced development of high power fuel cell systems for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This program expands upon Protonex' portfolio of UAV power system initiatives.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2008 - An Israeli-made Hermes-450 unmanned aerial vehicle owned by Georgia was shot down over Abkhazia on April 21, aggravating regional tensions. While politicians try to sort the issue out, it is easy to forget the technical aspects of the problem, but they deserve some attention.]]> Brussels (AFP) April 30, 2008 - NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has offered to eat his tie if Russia can prove that an alliance war plane recently shot down a Georgian drone, his spokesman said Wednesday.]]> ]]> Parsippany NJ (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 - DRS Technologies has announced that it received a $10.1 million order to build more than 140 additional M989A1 Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailers (HEMATs). The order was part of a previously awarded fixed-price, five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Michigan.]]> Bingen WA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - Insitu announced it has flown Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) equipped ScanEagles in Iraq. This was the first demonstration of HFE technology in a real-world environment and was conducted in cooperation with the US Navy. The HFE equipped ScanEagles have flown more than 350 hours, including flying 12+ hour missions in both land and maritime scenarios.]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - Northrop Grumman has been selected by the U.S. Army Communication-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command to produce the new multi-function radar for the Extended Range/Multi-Purpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Radar program.]]> SPECIAL ADVERTISING FEATURE
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]]> ]]> New Malden, UK (SPX) Apr 28, 2008 - BAE Systems has shown, for the first time, how multiple unmanned air and land vehicles can work under the command of a number of battlefield commanders to deliver vital reconnaissance and surveillance information to front-line troops.]]> San Jose CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2008 - Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center for the development and flight-testing of a signals intelligence sensor payload for the U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and for the preliminary design of an expanded sensor package for the MQ-9 Reaper UAS.]]> Mosscow (UPI) Russia, April 25, 2008 - An Israeli-made Hermes-450 unmanned aerial vehicle owned by the former Soviet republic of Georgia was shot down over Abkhazia on April 21, aggravating regional tensions. ]]> Advertise in Space War and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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