Aircraft
MALE Failure and All the Defense News from Paris
The Paris Air Show 2013 as seen from space by the Pleiades satellite system operated by EADS-Astrium. The two satellites form Europe’s first very-high-resolution earth-observation system, offering daily revisit capability in conjunction with the Spot 6 and 7 satellites. The basic resolution of Pleiades is 70 cm, but a resampling process can reduce this to 50 cm. (Photo: EADS-Astrium)
The Paris Air Show 2013 as seen from space by the Pleiades satellite system operated by EADS-Astrium. The two satellites form Europe’s first very-high-resolution earth-observation system, offering daily revisit capability in conjunction with the Spot 6 and 7 satellites. The basic resolution of Pleiades is 70 cm, but a resampling process can reduce this to 50 cm. (Photo: EADS-Astrium)

Europe’s failure to launch a medium-altitude long-endurance (Male) UAV to compete with long-established offerings from Israel and the U.S. was a major talking point at last week’s Paris Air Show. AIN’s team of editors and reporters provided full coverage of the world’s biggest aerospace event; all the stories can be found online at www.ainonline.com–some of them in longer form than we were able to publish in our four print editions of Paris Airshow News.