NBC News’ Jim Miklaszewski reports that “a good number” of U.S. military and intelligence drones are monitoring Syria.
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Britain and France have agreed to work closer on deployment and development of unmanned air vehicles. The first step will see France evaluating U.K.’s Thales Watchkeeper UAV.
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A Searcher MK II UAV from the Indian Navy crashed into a hill on Thursday while on a surveillance mission.
The U.S. Air Force has figured that its wiser to spend its money on data management of raw intelligence than getting new drones under the MQ-X program.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are expected to announce plans to develop an unmanned stealth aerial vehicle during a summit in Paris today.
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The CIA is worried that the RQ-170 that crashed in Iran may have failed to dump sensitive data before it went down.
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Indonesia will be buying a UAV from Kital Philippines and there is speculation that the source of the drone is from Israel.
Thales has unveiled its FULMAR maritime surveillance and identification UAV system.
HMCS Charlottetown is taking the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle to sea to explore the feasibility of integrating UAVs aboard HMC ships and developing expertise in operating UAVs at sea.
MCpl Robin Mugridge
General Atomics has constructed and flown its second jet-powered Predator C drone on Jan. 12.
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