Why small guns have been critical to layered CUAS architectures
Multiple countries have been deploying small arms as the last line of drone defence due to their multiple operational and tactical advantages.
Colgan Air January performance data released
Pinnacle Airlines Corporation has released capacity and operational results for its Colgan Air subsidiary for January 2010.
The carrier generated 41,279,000 revenue passenger miles (RPMs), 1.1% down on January 2009’s figure of 41,718,000. Capacity, measured in available seat miles (ASMs), was down 9.2% to 81,412,000 from 89,685,000, producing a load factor increase of 4.2 percentage points to reach 50.7% compared with last January’s 46.5%.
The number of passengers carried totalled 170,849, a 4.9% decrease from the 179,662 carried in the same month last year.
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