And an Israeli surveillance plane entered Lebanese airspace on Friday and left Saturday morning, it said.
By acquiring Grumman, it got into the big JointStars aerial surveillance plane contract.
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In 2001, Chinese security forces grounded an American EP-3 surveillance plane on the island after it collided with a Chinese jet fighter.
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China detained the American crew for 11 days and insisted the surveillance plane could leave China only after being cut into pieces.
While the Air Force based its decision on cost, aviation experts say there are advantages to a surveillance plane with a pilot in the cockpit.
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The three Americans, who were working on contract to the United States government, were captured when their anti-drug surveillance plane crashed in guerrilla territory in 2003.
Neal Sealock, one of the diplomats who attended the hourlong meeting Sunday morning (Saturday afternoon ET) with the 24-member crew of the Navy EP-3 surveillance plane.
Shortly before the mission gets under way, a Predator an unmanned surveillance plane quietly takes off from Kandahar airfield and heads to the Zargaran area.
And it has an interest in improving ties with America after the collision in April between a Chinese fighter and an American surveillance plane off the Chinese coast.
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This week the last remaining parts of an American surveillance plane that made an emergency landing in China in April were flown out of the country on a Russian-made aircraft.
That plane was carrying the 21 men and three women who had been detained by China for 11 days after their U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet collided.
The 330 military personnel comprise 200 soldiers going to West African nations, 40 military advisers to Mali, and 90 support crew for a C-17 transport aircraft and a Sentinel R1 surveillance plane.
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Underlying the growing tensions over Iran's nuclear program, the comments came as the Pentagon on Thursday disclosed details of an encounter Tuesday between U.S. and Iranian fighter jets after an Iranian plane approached a U.S. surveillance drone.
C130J transport plane was hitting problem after problem, it lost a key satellite surveillance contract to Boeing, and losses kept piling up.
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Surveillance aircraft were withdrawn two years ago after the accidental downing of a civilian plane over neighbouring Peru with the loss of two lives.
It is developing a surveillance system funded by several U.S. government agencies based on an unmanned plane that will fly at an altitude of 11 miles (versus 22, 000 miles for a satellite) and stay aloft for a week at a time.
This plane, which AeroVironment hopes to start testing by next spring, is designed to fill a surveillance gap that military and intelligent services are desperate to address, so-called persistent surveillance.
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