UAS

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army’s new Amazon.com-like website for drone acquisition is challenging industry business models and supply chains.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The Pentagon’s strategy to acquire 340,000 drones by the end of next year requires industry to scale production up while driving prices down.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Existing infrastructure to support electric aircraft in the U.S. is limited and airports face challenges installing the foundations, a report says.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
A German developer of a military rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system has completed two first flights in just three days.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
SOFWerx plans to assess the capabilities of uncrewed aircraft with hybrid-electric propulsion and channel wings for vertical takeoff and landing.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
A European Defense Fund (EDF)-supported anti-submarine warfare project is to make use of Schiebel’s new S-300 rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) has validated a jointly developed drone visual navigation and positioning system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Honda eVTOL flies; helping to avoid contrails; bio-based carbon fiber advances; Korea’s engine independence bid; and Airbus’ Canadian tech hub.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
A Russian one-way attack drone hit a residential building in Romania, injuring two people.
Budget, Policy & Operations

JENNIFER MESZAROS
Roughly 100 days after the APAC AAM Leadership Summit at the Singapore Airshow, the region’s focus has shifted from big promises to “boring yet indispensable groundwork."
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Canada is fast-tracking the acquisition and testing process for multidomain and autonomous surveillance systems compatible with harsh arctic conditions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Electric seaplane family plan; battery team for hybrid regional; U.S. quantum computing boost; and folding-wing eVTOL UAS.
Emerging Technologies

By Robert Wall
For Russia and Ukraine, the battle of electronic warfare tools versus drones is a seemingly neverending cycle of evolution.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
China on May 23 completed the first flight test of its domestically developed F406 turbofan for small- and medium-sized uncrewed aircraft systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Dyzne Technologies has unveiled a new expendable drone, the Blitz, and a shipping container-based launch system to deploy “high-volume” swarms of UAVs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Scaled Composites built the flying-wing UAS under a DARPA project to demonstrate hybrid propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Rafael is proposing to equip UAVs with some of the self-protection equipment more typically associated with combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Battery exhaustion after encountering poor weather was the reason the Skydweller large solar-powered UAS was lost in the Gulf of Mexico on May 4.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Rheinmetall and Deutsche Telekom have teamed on an initiative to improve drone defense of urban areas and critical infrastructure.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance program is expanding to include the acquisition of recoverable “bomber” types of uncrewed aircraft systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force Futures has approved a requirements document for an aircraft that will replace the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9A Reaper.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
AIRO unveils Jaunt UAS with five-fold range increase, adds ISR variant for military and civil uses and targets delivery by 2027.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
British defense startup Rotron Aerospace says it successfully launched and flown its SkyLance one-way effector.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
AIRO Group revealed plans on May 11 to produce the RQ-70 Dainn uncrewed aircraft system as a follow-on to the company’s smaller, hand-launched RQ-35.
Aircraft & Propulsion