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Israel to Set up Desert Park for 500 Grounded Aircraft

April 2, 2020 @ 07:39 AM

Israels planned 650-acre “Airpark” to house 500 commercial aircraft will be ready in few months from now. It will be jointly owned by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and IES Holdings, who recently a memorandum of understanding to begin work on the desert park
General Atomics Completes MQ-9B SkyGuardian UAV’s First Flight for UK

April 2, 2020 @ 06:45 AM

General Atomics has completed the first flight of the production-representative MQ-9B SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) meant for the UKs Royal Air Force (RAF) on March 30 “With first flight of the production-representative aircraft, we remain on schedule for delivering MQ-9B Protector to the RAF,” said Linden Blue, CEO, GA-ASI. Protector RG Mk1 is being procured for the UK RAFs configuration of SkyGuardian
CAE Mission Trainer for Operators of MQ-9 Predator

March 31, 2020 @ 11:40 AM

General Atomics has installed Predator Mission Trainer (PMT) designed by CAE to train the operators of MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), in Grand Forks, North Dakota. "General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc
Air National Guard to Install GA-ASI Detect and Avoid System on two...

March 27, 2020 @ 05:51 AM

The United States Air Force's Air National Guard (ANG) has contracted General Atomics for the provision of Detect and Avoid System (DAAS) for installation on two of its MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft. The DAAS will be equipped on one MQ-9 Block 1 and one MQ-9 Block 5 drones
Rosoboronexport Demos New 155mm Msta-S Howitzer to Middle East ‘Customers’

March 25, 2020 @ 01:25 PM

Rosoboronexport and UralVagonZavod (UVZ) today demonstrated the combat capabilities of the 155mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzer to Middle Eastern customers at the Staratel Proving Ground, Russsia. “During the tests, the Msta-S showed excellent results in target engagement using an automated fire control and the Orlan-10E unmanned aerial reconnaissance system,” said Viktor Kladov, Director for International Cooperation and Regional Policy at Rostec, the parent company of Rosoboronexport and other Russian defence entities
US’ Indo-Pacific Command Tests DARPA Tool to Map Unconnected Adversary Activity

March 24, 2020 @ 09:30 AM

The US Indo-Pacific Command recently tested a prototype Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) system designed to help military planners determine if events such as force movements, cyber intrusions, and civil unrest are unconnected occurrences, or part of an adversarys coordinated campaign. Members of the commands intelligence and operations divisions spent three days in December trying out DARPAs COMPASS tool suite
General Atomics to Buy SATCOM Radomes from Belgium

March 13, 2020 @ 10:41 AM

General Atomics is set to procure radomes to protect radars of its MQ-9B Sky Guardian and SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) from Belgim-based SABCA company. The Government of Belgium has approved Belgian Defense to negotiate the acquisition of MQ-9B to meet the nations RPA requirements
BAE Systems Demos Small-form-factor Semiconductor Tech in DARPA Project

March 13, 2020 @ 06:57 AM

BAE Systems under a DARPA project, has demonstrated new small-form-factor semiconductor technology designed to sense radio frequency and communication signals in battle environments in conjunction with a drone. The Hedgehog technology, which was used in this exercise to sense radio frequency (RF) and communication signals in congested and contested battle environments in conjunction with an unmanned aerial system, is a collection of general-purpose, reconfigurable MATRICs chips in a software-defined radio (SDR) system, the company said in a
Pakistani F-16 Crashes Near Islamabad, Pilot Dead

March 11, 2020 @ 07:03 AM

An F-16 fighter jet belonging to Pakistan Air Force (PAF) reportedly crashed near Shakarparian, Islamabad around Wednesday noon. The crash took place when rehearsals for Pakistan Day, celebrated on March 23, were on
MQ-9 Predator Drone Gets Long Distance Targeting Payload

March 5, 2020 @ 07:31 AM

General Atomics has integrated L3Harris WESCAM MX-20 Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) system onto its MQ-9 Predator Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), providing it with the ability to locate and track targets at long stand-off ranges. The company has already begun testing the MQ-9 equipped with the long-distance targeting payload

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