Drones - Highlights of 2015 - AW&ST

Unmanned Systems Highlights of 2015
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Dec 15, 2015

Graham Warwick | Aviation Week & Space Technology

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  Japan in January included the purchase of Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4B Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft in its 2015 defense budget. Three Block 30 multi-intelligence aircraft are to be acquired, adding to four RQ-4B Block 30s ordered by South Korea at the end of 2014.

  
  

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In a year that is ending with a rushed effort to require buyers to register their “drones” in a bid to shore up U.S. airspace safety, rapid developments in the commercial market for small unmanned aircraft marked 2015, as innovation outstripped regulation. The military, meanwhile, fell back on improving what they have as new programs failed to materialize.