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RQ-170 Sentinel

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Name: RQ-170 Sentinel

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Chinese Stealth Unmanned Combat / Reconnaissance Air Vehicle (UCAV) Unveiled

First clear photos of the newly discovered Chinese long-range stealth Unmanned Combat / Reconnaissance Air Vehicle (UCAV) which seems to be similar in design to the United States X-47/RQ-170 . Chinese aviation gaint, China Aviation Industry Corporation ... [Published Global Military Review - May 14 2013]

Entities: Reconnaissance, Stealth, RQ-170 Sentinel, Aviation

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

China set to test first jet-powered stealth drone, Lijian

The Chinese military is reportedly set for the test flight of its first jet-powered Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UACV). Blurry photos believed to be the first shots of the Lijian ("Sharp Sword") at a distance appeared online this week. It is uncertain ... [Published Digital Journal - May 12 2013]

Entities: UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, China, Stealth, Drone

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Teherans’ Drone Fever

Last week Iran unveiled its latest drone dubbed “Hamaseh”. This unmanned aerial vehicle follows a classic twin-boom tail design, pioneered by IAI’s Scout and Tadiran Mastiff in the 1980s. On the My 9, 2013 unveiling ceremony the drone was shown carrying ... [Published Defense Update - May 11 2013]

Entities: UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Drone, Iran

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 3 reports

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

Iran claims to have built a new weaponised drone

Teheran - According to Iran's defence minister, the country has built a new drone capable of evading radars, as well being able to fire onto targets. The drone vehicle, named Hemaseh, meaning epic in English, is also said to be able to conduct surveillance, ... [Published Digital Journal - May 10 2013]

Entities: Drone, Iran, RQ-170 Sentinel, CIA Central Intelligence Agency, Hizballah

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Is this China?s First Killer Drone?

A pair of grainy photos shot at long distance could be the best evidence yet of Beijing’s first jet-powered and presumably armed drone warplane.The images, one of which was cropped and enhanced by Internet users and has been reproduced here, first appeared ... [Published Wired News - May 10 2013]

Entities: UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, China, Drone, RQ-170 Sentinel

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

What's The Worst That Could Happen? RF Communication Disasters

began normally for the team of Air Force technicians. As they settled into their shift flying unmanned aircraft over Afghanistan, perhaps they chatted casually and swapped stories from the weekend. Very soon, however, their conversations were interrupted ... [Published Wireless Design Online - May 08 2013]

Entities: RF, UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Disasters

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

US Air Force

USAF to rebalance ISR portfolio

The US Air Force will have to rebalance its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) portfolio after operations wrap up over Afghanistan if it is to be able to collect data from contested airspace, the service's top civilian leader says."Our ... [Published Flight International - May 08 2013]

Entities: US Air Force, Larry James, Lockheed Martin Corp, Lieutenant General

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Help Wanted: Hackers

The Obama administration this week accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors. Commentator Rena Pederson says it’s just one example of a growing problem – one that could be at least partly ... [Published KERA Unlimited - May 08 2013]

Entities: Computer Hacker, Dallas (Texas, United States), China, Cyber Attack

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

What's The Worst That Could Happen? RF Communication Disasters

To access this content, please Register or Sign In.The morning of December 4, 2011 began normally for the team of Air Force technicians. As they settled into their shift flying unmanned aircraft over Afghanistan, perhaps they chatted casually and swapped ... [Published RF Globalnet - May 03 2013]

Entities: Disasters, RF, RQ-170 Sentinel, Stealth, Drone

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

What can't the Navy's new killer stealth drone do?

Happy Friday. Killer Apps sat down with Rob Ruszkowski, Lockheed Martin's man in charge of making sure its new stealth drone becomes the U.S. Navy's next light-strike and reconnaissance jet.Remember, the sea service is looking to field an unmanned, stealthy, ... [Published Foreign Policy Magazine - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: Lockheed Martin Corp, Stealth, Lockheed Martin F-35, Drone, RQ-170 Sentinel

First reported Feb 23 2013 - Updated Feb 24 2013 - 2 reports

Iran Says it Has Captured a Foreign ‘Enemy Drone’

(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard says it has captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran. The official IRNA news agency on Saturday quoted Gen. Hamid Sarkheili as saying that the Guard’s electronic ... [Published The China Blog - Feb 23 2013]

Entities: Drone, Iran, Sirjan (Iran), ScanEagle, RQ-170 Sentinel

First reported Feb 07 2013 - Updated Feb 07 2013 - 5 reports

Iran Releases Video Seized from ‘Downed U.S. Drone’

Video footage supposedly filmed by a downed U.S. drone has been released by Iran. The black and white recording shows aerial views near Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan, claims a man identified as Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Brig. Gen. ... [Published The Middle East Blog - TIME.com - Feb 07 2013]

Entities: Drone, Iran, United States, Decrypt, Kashmar (Iran)

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...Donley said that the service has acknowledged the stealthy Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aircraft, but that more needs to be done. "This is an area we need to work on going forward" he said

USAF to rebalance ISR portfolio [Published Flight International - May 08 2013]

Before he left office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned the U S is facing a "cyber Pearl Harbor." He said "An aggressor national or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. They could contaminate the water supply in major cities, or shut down the power grid across large parts of the country."

Help Wanted: Hackers [Published KERA Unlimited - May 08 2013]

"We see Israel's threat as a scream that comes out of fear," said Gen. Hasan Firouzabadi. "If they do anything wrong, there will be no Israel left on the world's political map."

Ahmadinejad slams 'foreign presence' in Gulf [Published Saudi Gazette - Apr 18 2013]

...aggressive schedule given the fact that it has taken decades to field the U S military's most recent fighter jets: the F-35 and the F-22 Raptor. "We're reusing a lot of systems, and software and hardware and technology that we have from other places -- F-35, RQ-170 -- and we're integrating those systems [onto a new airframe] not inventing them" Ruszkowski said...

What can't the Navy's new killer stealth drone do? [Published Foreign Policy Magazine - Apr 12 2013]

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China set to test first jet-powered stealth dro... [Published Digital Journal - May 12 2013]
Teherans’ Drone Fever [Published Defense Update - May 11 2013]
Iran claims to have built a new weaponised drone [Published Digital Journal - May 10 2013]
Is this China?s First Killer Drone? [Published Wired News - May 10 2013]
Iran unveils ‘Epic’ new drone [Published Russia Today - May 10 2013]
Iran says it has built new drone [Published York Daily Record - May 09 2013]
Talking Stealth: USAF Pushes for 5th to 4th 'Ga... [Published Aviation Week - May 09 2013]
What's The Worst That Could Happen? RF Communic... [Published Wireless Design Online - May 08 2013]
USAF to rebalance ISR portfolio [Published Flight International - May 08 2013]
Help Wanted: Hackers [Published KERA Unlimited - May 08 2013]
What's The Worst That Could Happen? RF Communic... [Published RF Globalnet - May 03 2013]
Ahmadinejad slams 'foreign presence' in Gulf [Published Saudi Gazette - Apr 18 2013]
Google’s Schmidt Voices Privacy Fears Over Civi... [Published TechWeekEurope UK - Apr 15 2013]
What can't the Navy's new killer stealth drone do? [Published Foreign Policy Magazine - Apr 12 2013]
US - Iran tensions escalate in latest drone inc... [Published The Long War Journal (Site-Wide) - Mar 15 2013]
Guest Post: Here Comes China's Drones [Published Zero Hedge - Mar 02 2013]
Iran Says It Has Brought Down Another Foreign S... [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 24 2013]
Iran Says it Has Captured a Foreign ‘Enemy Drone’ [Published The China Blog - Feb 23 2013]
Iran Says it Has Captured a Foreign ‘Enemy Drone’ [Published The Middle East Blog - TIME.com - Feb 23 2013]
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Iran Releases Video Supposedly Taken From Captu... [Published Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, ... - Feb 07 2013]
Iran Releases Video Seized from ‘Downed U.S. Dr... [Published The Middle East Blog - TIME.com - Feb 07 2013]
Iran Releases Video Seized from ‘Downed U.S. Dr... [Published The China Blog - Feb 07 2013]
Iran Releases Footage From Hacked US Drone [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 07 2013]
Video: Iran TV shows 'proof' US RQ-170 Sentinel... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - Feb 07 2013]

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Chinese Stealth Unmanned Combat / Reconnaissanc... [Published Global Military Review - May 14 2013] First clear photos of the newly discovered Chinese long-range stealth Unmanned Combat / Reconnaissance Air Vehicle (UCAV) which seems to be similar in design to the United States X-47/RQ-170 . Chinese aviation gaint, China Aviation Industry Corporation ...
US - Iran tensions escalate in latest drone inc... [Published The Long War Journal (Site-Wide) - Mar 15 2013] With already heightened tensions between US and Iranian military elements operating in the Persian Gulf, the situation came closer to direct military engagement on March 12 after an Iranian fighter jet attempted to intercept a US Predator drone as it ...
Guest Post: Here Comes China's Drones [Published Zero Hedge - Mar 02 2013] Submitted by Trefor Moss of The Diplomat.com , Unmanned systems have become the legal and ethical problem child of the global defense industry and the governments they supply, rewriting the rules of military engagement in ways that many find disturbing. ...
Iran Says It Has Brought Down Another Foreign S... [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 24 2013] Back in December 2011 , a US RQ-170 Sentinel drone was either brought down or crash landed smack in the middle of Iran, allowing the local military and scientists to reverse engineer it furthering their own understanding of possible countermeasures, ...
Iran Says it Has Captured a Foreign ‘Enemy Drone’ [Published The China Blog - Feb 23 2013] (TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard says it has captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran. The official IRNA news agency on Saturday quoted Gen. Hamid Sarkheili as saying that the Guard’s electronic ...

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Video: Iran TV shows 'proof' US RQ-170 Sentinel... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - Feb 07 2013]