{"id":3188,"date":"2018-03-27T22:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2018-03-27T22:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:54:26","slug":"italy-plans-to-spend-951-million-on-20-surveillance-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/27\/italy-plans-to-spend-951-million-on-20-surveillance-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALY PLANS TO SPEND $951 MILLION ON 20 SURVEILLANCE DRONES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3189\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3-560x210.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3-260x98.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3-160x60.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/p1hh-cover3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Defence News<\/p>\n<p>By Tom Kington<\/p>\n<p>Italy is edging closer to acquiring a new surveillance drone based on a business aircraft design. The UAV will offer 24-hour endurance and have a top speed of 330 knots.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s Ministry of Defence last month sent an acquisition request to Parliament\u2019s defense commission for 20 Piaggio Aerospace P.2HH drones, costing a total of \u20ac766 million (U.S. $951 million).<\/p>\n<p>The platform, dubbed the HammerHead, is an unmanned variant of the Piaggio Aerospace P180 business aircraft, which flies with two pusher propellers.<\/p>\n<p>The request is the latest episode in the drawn-out development phase of the medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV, which has been punctuated by a test crash and the planned sale of Piaggio Aerospace\u2019s civil activity to a Chinese-backed fund.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/unmanned\/2018\/03\/27\/italy-plans-to-spend-951m-on-20-surveillance-drones\/?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Socialflow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Defence News By Tom Kington Italy is edging closer to acquiring a new surveillance drone based on a business aircraft design. The UAV will offer 24-hour endurance and have a top speed of 330 knots. Italy\u2019s Ministry of Defence last month sent an acquisition request to Parliament\u2019s defense commission for 20 Piaggio Aerospace P.2HH&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/27\/italy-plans-to-spend-951-million-on-20-surveillance-drones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ITALY PLANS TO SPEND $951 MILLION ON 20 SURVEILLANCE DRONES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[545,1686],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-italy","tag-uav","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}