Washington An experiment in New Mexico has moved the unmanned aerial vehicle out of its traditional photo-reconnaissance role and placed it squarely in the rapidly developing electronic warfare arena. The U.S. Air Force’s new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battle Lab borrowed a Hunter short-range UAV from the Army and equipped it with a direction-finding device to pinpoint electronic emitters such as air defense radars.

Paris Higher than expected earnings, record sales and a forthcoming contract for Eurofighter aircraft will position DaimlerBenz Aerospace to play a lead role in the next phase of restructuring of the European aerospace industry, DASA Chairman/CEO Manfred Bischoff predicted.

Kennedy Space Center The $222-million Russian Khrunichev/Boeing FGB control module spacecraft that will be launched by a Russian Proton booster as the first element of the new International Space Station (ISS) is to arrive next week at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.