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Northrop Grumman to build unmanned combat aircraft for Uss Navy

Washington, Usa - But it will be available not before 2015

The hypothesis of a plan for a combat unmanned aircraft had taken shape already in 2000, when Northrop Grumman awarded a first appropriation from the Pentagon of USD 3m in order to carry ahead a study of the sort, and then in May, 2002 other USD 10m in order to develop ulteriorly this concept. An idea that has been introduced this week just by Northrop Grumman, which has revealed the airplane will...

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Rome, Italy, 04/18/2003 10:49
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