PATUXENT RIVER, Md. | The MQ-8B Fire Scout, the Navy’s only unmanned aircraft to operate on land and at sea, departed Jan. 17 from Mayport, Fla., aboard USS Simpson (FFG 56) for a six-month deployment to western Africa. Personnel from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 60 Detachment 4 and Northrop Grumman took Fire Scout on its third at-sea deployment...
Army News Service|by Skip Vaughn REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — Uganda air force Pvt. Ronald Mudhasi locked his arm as instructed and flung the small remote-controlled airplane into the overcast sky. The Raven flew majestically above Test Area 3 but Mudhasi’s work wasn’t finished. He joined his countrymen and their instructors under a nearby canopy to help control the unmanned...
From Stratfor This week, the media spotlight fell on the small island nation of Seychelles, a former French and British colonial possession off the east coast of Africa. On Monday, China’s ministry of national defence announced that Beijing was considering using the port on the main island of Mahe for naval purposes, in response to an offer from Seychelles....
Drone crashing in Somalia story hitting the wires, almost becoming a Sunday night occasion this. There must be lots of parts in the market over there. If its true the attrition rate in East Africa is pretty high. Could it mean smaller platforms are being used? Kismayo — Small surveillance aircraft known as Drone has been reported to have...
According to an executive at Turkish Aerospace Industries, the new Egyptian government is interested in buying Turkey-made unmanned planes. Some Middle East countries prefer Turkey rather than Israel or the US, defense experts say. Turkey will also sell six multi-role tactical platform naval vessels to the North African country Egypt is interested in buying made-in-Turkey unmanned aerial vehicles called...
The BBC report another downed drone, is it one of the bird type or another?? Full BBC report Pakistani troops have battled Taliban fighters for the debris of a US unmanned drone which crashed in a north-western tribal area. It was not clear whether the unmanned drone had come down because of Taliban fire or due to a technical...
The prototype of Denel Dynamics’ latest Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV), the Seeker 400, has been completed and is due to make its maiden flight in the first quarter of 2012, the company announced. UAVs have seen increased use over the last ten years, such as in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. The vehicles often carry out reconnaisance and precision strike...
