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Solar-Powered Zephyr UAV Tops Endurance Mark

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

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QinetiQ's Zephyr, a solar-powered plane funded jointly by the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Pentagon, recently set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Thales said last week. Thales provided the flight's Communication Relay System--a repackaged PRC-148 Joint Tactical Radio System Enhanced Multiband Inter/Intra Team Radios (JEM)--that enabled users, more than 300 miles apart, to communicate using their organic radios during a non-stop, 82-hour and 37-minute flight. Zephyr is part of…

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