Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Alenia Aeronautica: first flight for the Sky-X UAV

"Conceived for a wide range of civil and security missions, ground observation, surveillance and strategic reconnaissance
(WAPA) - The Sky-X, the Alenia Aeronautica next-generation unmanned demonstrator aircraft, has made the first flight in Italy. Entirely financed, designed, developed and manufactured by Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, the Sky-X is now based at the Italian Air Force’s Base in Amendola, near Foggia, to carry out a new series of flight tests, after a series of test flights made during the last two years at the Vidsel Base in Sweden, near the Arctic Circle.

These tests are the first ever to take place in Italy for the first European UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, of over-1- ton weight category, to have flown. "

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