UAS

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

By Graham Warwick
Hybrid-electric Shepard; deployable electric high-lift; laminar-flow UAS; and Leonardo’s advanced tiltrotor.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Solar Impulse 2, the one-of-a-kind aircraft that flew around the world on solar power in 2015-16, crashed into the Gulf of Mexico on May 4.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Turkey has joined the small club of countries that have demonstrated autonomous collaborative platform operations between crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The UK Defense Ministry is getting close to picking a tactical UAS under the so-called Corvus program and replacing the Thales Watchkeeper system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Indonesia could become the first international customer for Baykar’s Kizilelma autonomous combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Otto Aerospace has completed flight tests of an uncrewed aircraft designed around its drag-reducing natural laminar flow technology.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Northrop Grumman has flown an experimental hybrid-electric uncrewed aircraft designed under a DARPA X-Prime project.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The FAA is publishing proposed rules for restricting unmanned aircraft operations in airspace over key facilities.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. military is bolstering its investments in autonomous systems and needs to test those platforms before they are used on signal-cluttered battlefields.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
With conflicts near its borders increasingly dominated by one-way attack drones, Turkey’s defense industry is accelerating efforts to develop domestic options.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The EU launched a call for participation in the EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance aimed at fostering development of UAS and ways to defend against them.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
New Zealand’s Syos Aerospace is preparing to field a wider range of drones for testing in Ukraine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Viasat has announced that avionics engineering house L2 Aviation has joined its Velaris service offering for sat connectivity with AAM and eVTOLs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Computing by laser; automating light helicopters; uncrewed airdropping; and beam-powered UAS.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
GKN Aerospace is finalizing the architecture for an uncrewed aircraft systems demonstrator for Sweden.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Dzyne Technologies has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for three Ultra Turbo medium-altitude, long-endurance tactical UAS.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
MTU Aero Engines expects the Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program to evolve to the pursuit of two different aircraft types.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Graham Warwick
Japan’s Terra Drones has acquired its second stake in a Ukrainian manufacturer of interceptor drones.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Autonomous flight system developer Merlin has raised $80 million in new funding through the sale of shares to an existing institution investor.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Israel’s Elbit Systems has opened a facility to produce uncrewed aircraft systems in Romania.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Firestorm Labs raised $82 million to scale up production and fielding of its xCell containerized manufacturing system, which enables 3D printing of drones
Supply Chain

By Robert Wall
Ukraine is looking to capitalize on the success it has had developing counter-drone and other systems by adjusting government rules to enable defense exports.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
One major American UAS provider is going ahead and making promises to investors and suppliers alike that the U.S. industry will grow.
Aircraft & Propulsion