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Civil defenseRQ-8 Fire Scout: a rotor-winged UCAV
Washington, USA - Development of the unmanned helicopter devoted to US Navy and US Army goes on and it will have to operate provided with weapons
Northrop Grumman is carrying on the development of the RQ-8 Fire Scout remote-controlled aircraft, actually a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) helicopter able to perform several kinds of missions and destined... more
Civil defenseGalileo Avionica: UAV "Falco" obtains permit to fly
Rome, Italy - Enac (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) yesterday delivered the "Permit to fly" to the first Italian UAV
"Galileo Avionica, a SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems company, has obtained the Permit to Fly from ENAC, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, acting on behalf of EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency)... more
Civil defensePentagon's concern with Israeli suppling of military know-how to China
Washington, USA - "US and Israel have to discuss about it"
A spokesperson for Pentagon has expressed yesterday Washington’s concern with Israel which is providing China with technological support to update and upgrade remote-controlled aircraft in service with t... more
Civil defenseIncentives to the aeronautical education programs in Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam - Donation of laptop computers
Three Vietnamese universities have benefitted from the donation, by Microsoft, Boeing and Vietnam Airlines together, of laptop computers in order to support the improvement of aeronautical education programs... more
Civil defenseNeuron: Spain and Greece joined the new European military UAV programme
Madrid, Spain - EADS-CASA and HAI signed a cooperation agreement with French Dassault
Spain and Greece to participate to the Neuron military UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) programme. Such a project, led by French Dassault, will be able to take advantage by the EADS-CASA and HAI’s contribution a... more
Civil defenseBoeing ScanEagle: here are the advantages ensured by a network enabled UAV
Washington, USA - From targeting to flight over the area affected by strikes in order to evaluate their effectiveness
Finding and detecting targets, monitoring their destruction by the effectors (that is to say the weapon systems suitable for real combat mission) and overflying the area aiming to assess the damages produced... more
Civil defenseTurkey: Army's UAVs will be Israeli-made
Ankara, Turkey - Ten remote-controlled aircraft ordered with a total value worth about USD 200m
Turkish Army selected an Israeli-made UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) as a remote-controlled aircraft for reconnaissance operations. It deals with the Heron, jointly offered by IAI and Elbit which were awarded... more
Civil defenseSky-X: Alenia shows its UAV while waiting for the Neuron
Caselle, Italy - A technology demonstrator which precedes the production of the remote-controlled aircraft under development in France
Italy will be one of the partners for the European Neuron programme related to a new remote-controlled aircraft for military deployment and whose development lead belongs to the promoter country, that... more
Civil defenseUSA-Israel meeting on the provision of UAV technology to China
Tel Aviv, Israel - Washington proves worried about the Israeli contribution to the Chinese armed forces
Israel is providing China with technological support to update and upgrade remote-controlled aircraft in service with the Chinese armed forces. This aid worries the United States and representatives from... more
Civil defenseUAV: a centre for excellence founded at Nellis Air Base
Washington, USA - It is intended to coordinate the aircraft's activities also in favour of other armed forces and encourage R&D in this field
A Center for Excellence exclusively dedicated to the UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). US Air Force intends in this centralized manner to manage the fleet of remote-controlled aircraft for military employment.... more
Civil defensePentagon wants the Predator to be more "aggressive"
Washington, USA - The B version to be endowed with real attack capabilities with missiles and guided bombs to face terrorists
Predator: the name of the well known remote-controlled aircraft produced by General Atomics baffles if considering the role usually played by this vehicle as a reconnaissance mean. Despite some airplanes... more
Civil defenseUSA: 15 Squadrons endowed with the Predator against the international terrorism
Washington, USA - The USAF's proposal to face the threat both in the national land and abroad
The deployment of remote-controlled aircraft by the US armed forces appears more and more important within the fight against the international terrorism, both to ensure the national territory protection... more
Civil defenseIran: serious legal consequences due to the false alarm on the supposed aerial strike
Teheran, Iran - In the meantime, the USA gave the lie to the fact that US UAVs were and are still performing reconnaissance over the Islamic Republic
The false alarm caused by some local press sources in Iran some days ago, according to which a non-identified airplane (but maybe a US one) would have launched a missile against the surface nearby the... more
Civil defenseGeneral Atomics: lager production and more jobs thanks to the Predator’s success
Washington, USA – US Government would be thinking of ordering further RQ-1 UAVs
The huge operational success achieved by the RQ-1 Predator remote-controlled airplane deployed in reconnaissance and armed surveillance missions in Afghanistan, Iraq and also over the Balkans by the United... more
Civil defenseUS UAVs over the Iranian skies
Teheran, Iran - The Islamic Republic would have already protested against the violations of the national air space
Iran would have recently formally protested against the United States, even if without opening a real relevant debate, with reference to supposed violations by some American remote-controlled airplanes... more
Civil defenseIraq: after the UAVs it is time for the robots
Washington, USA - With 1 m height and endowed with tracks, automatic rifles and infrared cameras, they are even able to share data with the Predators
The UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are not the only military remote-controlled means being deployed in Iraq. The United States will also resort to remote-controlled robots soon, endowed with automatic... more
Civil defenseUAV to watch over Israeli Premier Sharon's security
Tel Aviv, Israel - The decision considered by the Israeli intelligence service and armed forces against prospective attempts due to the withdrawal from Gaza
Israeli national security authorities decided to significantly strengthen the protection system destined to Premier Ariel Sharon as it is being feared that the Palestinian armed movements, but even Jewish... more
Civil defenseScanEagle supporting the Marine Corps in Falluja
Falluja, Iraq - The UAV produced by Boeing provides the soldiers on the ground with real time images able to reveal if rebels are armed
The Marine Corps is constantly deploying the ScanEagle in Iraq, the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) produced by Boeing and used for territorial monitoring and detection/targeting activities. The ScanEagle... more
Civil defenseThe USA try to halt the provision of Israeli UAVs to China
Tel Aviv, Israel - Israeli Government has to face a serious diplomatic as well as commercial problem
Israeli Government proved forced to face a diplomatic as well as commercial problem in the remote-controlled aircraft sector. China sent infact back to Israel some Israeli-made military UAVs (Unmanned... more
Civil defenseA new operational flexibility test for the X-45A
Seattle, USA - The UAV's controls were successfully transferred during its flight from a pilot to another one located in another base
The Boeing X-45A, the new UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) currently involved by a significant experimental activity and able to perform both reconnaissance and attack missions, performed another leap forward... more
Civil defenseCoordinated in formation flight for two Boeing X-45As
Washington, USA - Two unmanned stealth airplanes flew in formation controlled by one operator on the ground during some tests
Boeing unveiled that two X-45A unmanned stealth airplanes accomplished an important test by flying in formation. Some two J-UCAS (Joint-Unmanned Combat Air System, a new name compared with the previous... more
Civil defenseGlobal Hawk: more than 1000 flight hours in Iraq and Afghanistan
Washington, USA - Even if the RQ-4As are still under delivery to the US Air Force's operative units
Northrop Grumman revealed recently that the deliveries of the RQ-4A Global Hawk remote-controlled reconnaissance airplanes to the dedicated units of US Air Force started, in particular at the Beale Air... more
Civil defenseMore autonomy in the future for the UAVs' activities
Washington, USA - Avionics devices under designing should enable such airplanes to operate autonomously in particular circumstances
US aerospace company Geneva Aerospace would be accomplishing an important programme related to the UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) sector. It deals in particular with avionics devices, which should make... more
Civil defenseHezbollah: "Our UAVs can carry explosive material"
Beirut, Lebanon - It would have been unveiled by some representatives of the Islamic armed movement
The Islamic armed movement Hezbollah talked about its reconnaissance activities over the Israeli territory by resorting to its remote-controlled aircraft again (see for details AVIONEWS). According to... more
Civil defenseThe analysis of the UAVs' deployment in Iraq and against the international terrorism
Washington, USA - The Predator and the ScanEagle as demonstrative platforms for the effectiveness of the remote-controlled airplanes
Pentagon performed recently some appraisals on the operative success achieved so far in Iraq and against the international terrorism by the deployment of the UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The US Department... more
Civil defenseHezbollah: "We do not deploy Iranian-made UAVs"
Beirut, Lebanon - The Islamic armed movement would have recently maintained that the its drones are Lebanese-made
The Islamic armed movement Hezbollah would have recently firmly given the lie to the news released on part of Arab press yesterday, according to which the reconnaissance drone detected by the Israeli armed... more
Civil defenseIsrael: "Hezbollah owns UAVs" (2). Yesterday in reconnaissance mission over Galilea
Tel Aviv, Israel - The radio-controlled aircraft would have only photographed the zone
On Sunday evening, the Israeli soldiers attention fastened on Western Galilea, near the Lebanon bound, where the Army is wakefulness: yesterday morning, Lebanese Hezbollah had announced to have sent a... more
Civil defenseIsrael: "Hezbollah owns UAVs"
Tel Aviv, Israel - The warning signal was called by Israeli Air Force after the detection occurred on last Sunday and the Hezbollah's claim
Israeli Air Force would have unveiled yesterday that it detected a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) flying over the Northern side of the country. What appears more relevant is that such remote-controlled... more
Civil defenseUK: the programme for a shipped UAV started
London, UK - Boeing, Thales UK e QinetiQ to develop the new remote-controlled airplane on the behalf of British Ministry of Defence
British Ministry of Defence awarded Boeing, Thales UK and QinetiQ the carrying out of a programme aimed to the production of a remote-controlled aircraft to be destined to the Royal Navy's activities.... more
Civil defenseUAV: the United States' efforts in the sector
Washington, USA - According to some analysts, Europe would have destined to military drones only a 10% of resources scheduled by the USA for the next 10 years
According to some analysts of the aerospace sector, the United States would be currently devoting higher efforts in the sector of the UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and armed drones, with investments which... more
Civil defenseNorthrop Grumman and Raytheon awarded with the contract for the new radar destined to the US Army's UAVs
Washington, USA - The AACER system to ensure a significant increase in the monitoring and target tracking capabilities
DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), the US authority which attends to the development of the most advanced military programmes in the United States, would have awarded Northrop Grumman and... more
Civil defenseUS Predator crash in Pakistan near a military base
Multan, Pakistan - No victims nor damage at Jacobajad
A Predator, an American spy UAV, would have crashed near the military base at Jacobajad, in the South Pakistan, returning from a mission in Afghanistan. It occurred yesterday at 9:45am: fortunately there... more
Civil defenseUS Air Force awards the Predator
Washington, USA - An official prize for General Atomics thanks to the operative contribution ensured by the well known UAV
General Atomics can certainly feel proud for the recent prize awarded by US Air Force, for what has been possible to achieve so far in terms of operative results by the deployment of the remote-controlled... more
Civil defenseUN: Iraqi Baathist regime was unable to spread lethal chemicals by drones
New York, USA - It would have been unveiled by a report of UN's commissioners despite the different view of experts appointed by the Unites States
There is a views struggles in the United States among the experts appointed by American Government and the United Nations' commissioners regarding the presence of chemical and bacteriological weapons in... more
Civil defenseSYDNEY: THREE GIANT HELICOPTERS AGAINST FIRES
SYDNEY - AUSTRALIA, Three giant helicopters Sikorsky S-64, capable to launch 9.500 litres of water at a time, are fighting against fires menacing a residential quarter in the South of Sydney, last... more
Civil defenseUAV AGAINST FIRES
USA, A civilian version of the UAV Predator, the unmanned aircraft utilized in military application for the territory surveillance, effectuated its first flight, equipped with sensors to "see" for forest... more
Civil defenseTHE GERMAN AIR RESCUE SERVICE CHOOSE P&WC FOR ITS EC-135
GERMANY, Pratt&Whitney Canada has been selected by Deutsche Rettungflugwacht E.V., the German Air Rescue Service, to equip its fleet of Eurocopter EC-135. The selected engine is the PW206B2, realized by... more