Airbus Helicopters and Spanish telecoms provider Telefonica will jointly demonstrate the potential use of 5G communications in military helicopters and UAS.
Gulf airlines continue to face heavy disruption, while U.S. carriers deal with a fuel cost surge and must compete against largely hedged European airlines.
Special tactics units within the USAF Special Operations Command are researching options for buying short-range, first-person-view, one-way attack drones.
The UK is starting to plan the potential procurement of a specialist counter-UAS capability under its much larger Land Ground-Based Air Defense program.
Parallel Flight Technologies has received a key regulatory OK that allows it to begin commercial deployment of its heavy-lift, hybrid-electric UAS in the U.S.
Sikorsky is ground-testing the powertrain for its HEX hybrid-electric tiltwing VTOL aircraft ahead of flight tests with two uncrewed demonstrators next year.
The Pentagon recently wrapped up the first of four tryout “gauntlets” for companies pitching new small uncrewed aircraft systems to the department on the road.
