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For Freshly Graduated UAV Pilots, A New Era Begets A New Set of Wings. UAS-RPA Wings USAF. From Popular Science: This week, we heard 24 cadets at the Air Force Academy received the first wings awarded in the institution’s history for …

March 2, 2010. THE USAF’S UAV FUTURE

The loss rate brings up an interesting point about the entire idea of UAV use in highly sensitive strikes: better to lose 12 planes that cost about $12 million each (according to USAF budget materials, and that’s excluding support …

MiG’s Border Security report, the first of three integrated UAV market/technologies forecasts, provides insight that may help users and vendors make optimal use of available and evolving technologies (both platforms and payloads), …

I wasn’t able to jump on this yesterday due to some Military.com commitments, but there was an interesting piece in the New York Times about the huge amount of UAV data pouring into military hard drives — so much that the USAF, …

Mundus Group Subsidiary, AirStar Introduces Green All Electric UAV Product Line in Response to Requests From Major … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance). Published by admin on 13/1/10 • Filed in Defence

Headline, VTOL, robot overlords, uav . IMG_6201 (small) Bad news folks, a defense contractor just revealed that they have successfully tested an unmanned vertical take-off and landing drone. This is getting just a little too close to the …

By Ajitha Menon : Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ( UAV ) might be brought into regular use for surveillance of the Maoist infested areas across the country soon, according to Air Marshal S K Bhan, Air Officer Commanding in Chief, …

USAF– UAV is now RPA.

Elbit Systems successfully carried out the maiden flight on Monday of the new long-range, high-endurance Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicle which is capable of carrying out surveillance missions thousands of kilometers from Israel, …