DefenceTalkSEOUL: South Korea will develop a stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to counter North Korea’s long-range artillery and mobile missile systems, a South Korean defense official said Sunday. The development is part of the 31 research projects to be conducted by the South Korean military by the end of next year, the official, who spoke […]https://www.defencetalk.com/south-korea-to-develop-unmanned-stealth-aircraft-to-counter-north-65994/

DefenceTalkUnited Nations: The United Nations is sending hundreds of extra peacekeepers and its first drones to the Central African Republic to bolster security ahead of elections next month, a UN official said Tuesday. The December 27 elections are shaping up as a test of the country’s progress in its political transition after the bloodletting that […]https://www.defencetalk.com/un-sends-more-peacekeepers-drones-to-central-africa-65818/

DefenceTalkThe US Air Force recently lost control of two armed Predator drones in separate incidents in Turkey and Iraq, a US military official said Wednesday. The Predators were both carrying air-to-surface Hellfire missiles when they crashed, but these were safely recovered along with the aircraft. In the first case on October 17, a Predator crew […]https://www.defencetalk.com/two-armed-us-predator-drones-crash-in-iraq-turkey-65677/

DefenceTalkPakistan’s military said Thursday it had killed 21 militants in air strikes in a restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan. The strikes were carried out late Thursday in the Rajgal and Tirah areas of the lawless Khyber tribal district, where Taliban militant and local Islamist groups are active. “Twenty-one terrorists were killed in precise aerial […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistani-air-strikes-kill-21-militants-in-northwest-65674/

DefenceTalkPresident Barack Obama’s administration has underrepresented the true number of civilians killed in drone strikes, a news site said in citing a cache of secret files it published. On Thursday, the news site The Intercept unveiled documents leaked by a whistleblower about America’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles to kill terrorist targets in the Middle […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-downplays-civilian-drone-deaths-secret-files-show-65662/

DefenceTalkWashington: Owners of recreational drones in the United States will soon have to register them, the government said Monday, as the popular devices become a growing hazard in the skies. As more and more radio-controlled drones appear in American skies, the risk of one colliding with a full-sized airplane — with potentially catastrophic results — […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-to-require-registration-of-drones-65657/

DefenceTalkWASHINGTON: “It’s a tactical capability working at a strategic distance.” That’s what Army Col. Courtney Cote told a gaggle of mostly aviation and aerospace media at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition, or AUSA, Tuesday. He was talking about unmanned aerial systems – the new player on the battlefield that, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/unmanned-aircraft-new-kid-on-block-flexing-muscle-65648/

DefenceTalkThe market for military drones is expected to almost double by 2024 to beyond $10 billion (8.9 billion euros), according to a report published Friday by specialist defence publication IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review. “The global defence and security market for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will expand at 5.5 percent per year over this decade, from […]https://www.defencetalk.com/drone-market-to-hit-10-billion-by-2024-experts-65547/

DefenceTalkIn this season’s Network Integration Evaluation, or NIE, taking place on White Sands Missile Range, or WSMR, and Fort Bliss, Texas, coordinated units of remotely-operated and automated aircraft will be used to represent a possible threat on tomorrow’s battlefields. Members of the Targets Management Office with Program Executive Office for Simulation Training and Instrumentation, or […]https://www.defencetalk.com/drones-to-take-network-integration-evaluation-by-swarm-65538/

DefenceTalkDamascus: The Syrian military for the first time on Wednesday deployed drones supplied by Russia for its fight against jihadists, a security source in Damascus said. “For the first time, the army today used drones received from Moscow in operations against extremists in the north and east of the country,” the source said, without elaborating […]https://www.defencetalk.com/syria-deploys-russian-drones-for-first-time-65476/