French Harfang UAVs fly 1 000 hours in Mali

Send to a friend Situation update on Serval Force operations, 9 May (6 pm) to 16 May (6 pm) Over the last seven days, air operations have continued with some 120 sorties mainly dedicated to transport operations for the Serval brigade rotation. Some ...

10:15 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff The Pentagon's Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) has opened applications to its Acquisition Exchange Program (AEP) which opens up 3-12 months assignments at the GS-11+ level that span a ...

The news comes from the Air et Cosmos specialist magazine, which reported online that a deal had been reached between France and the United States for the sale of two non-armed MQ-9 units. The French air force had already deployed a European-made ...

Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation has expanded its Serval carrier Ethernet switch engine portfolio with Serval-2 (VSC7438), which claims to be the first silicon optimized for high bandwidth IP Edge and Ethernet/MPLS access applications, including ...

The French army handed over its security operation in the Malian desert city of Timbuktu to Burkina Faso troops on Tuesday, as part of a phased withdrawal from its troubled former colony.Al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants controlled Timbuktu along ...

PARIS, April 22 (Xinhua) -- French National Assembly on Monday voted in favor of the government's request to extend military operation in Mali to May. "France must help Mali to win the peace," said Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, formally ...

A force of 1,000 French soldiers backed by tanks, drones and air support has begun a major operation in a river valley near Gao, northeastern Mali's largest city and once a stronghold of the country's al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants. A French ...

The Malian army said Wednesday 63 of its troops and 600 rebels had died since the launch of French-led operations two months ago to take back the north from hardline Islamist groups.The announcement by the military came as UN leader Ban Ki-Moon said ...

Authorities found a tiger; two mountain lions; three bobcats; two lynx; a type of African cat called a serval; and two skunks on the property. They were taken Sunday from the land belonging to a relative of the animals' owner and were turned over to ...