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Australia’s JP129 Phase 2 UAV Contract: i-View Out, Shadow In

Australia’s JP129 Phase 2 UAV Contract: i-View Out, Shadow In

by | Oct 29, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Elbit Systems, IAI, Interoperability, Israel, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Rumours, Textron, UAVs

ADF RQ-7B Shadow(click to view full) In December 2006, Australia bought a new tactical UAV to go with the Israeli Skylark mini-UAV. Australian Minister of Defence Senator Hill said the Government had agreed to the A$ 145 million (USD $109 million) UAV project to...
Australia’s JP129 Phase 2 UAV Contract: i-View Out, Shadow In

Afghan Security Forces Not Growing Into Institutions Able to Support Oversight

by | Oct 29, 2013 | Airbus, Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Brazil, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Germany, Industry & Trends, Israel, Satellites & Sensors, USA

Afghanistan Drawdown Update * Winter slows down combat in Afghanistan, and ISAF Commander General Dunford sounds rather optimistic about how the 2013 fighting season unfolded, but he recognizes that “[m]uch work remains to be done in developing the institutions,...