UAS

By Chen Chuanren
Testing includes DefendTex drone “mother ships” and other swarming technologies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The escalating use of drones in combat is creating demand for a supply chain for uncrewed aircraft production that can meet security and sovereignty concerns.
Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
SkyGrid has signed anagreement with MIT Lincoln Laboratory to jointly research and develop high-resolution forecast models for low-altitude flying aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon is sending its newest aircraft carrier along with its embarked air wing and a group of support ships to the Caribbean.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
DARPA has launched a prize challenge to demonstrate multicopter uncrewed aircraft that can carry payloads more than four times their weight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Tony Osborne
London’s Metropolitan Police service has launched a pilot drone service to see if the technology can help them respond more quickly to emergency calls.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The rising popularity of Collaborative Combat Aircraft has spread to the U.S. Army, which is now considering the reusable systems to augment crewed rotorcraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) design needs to have “full-spectrum” low-observability and ultra-long range built in, the RAF's programs head says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Seneca, a startup developing firefighting drones, raised a $60 million venture capital round to increase production of UAVs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
German defense electronics company Rohde & Schwarz is teaming up with manufacturing equipment provider Trumpf to target the growing counter-drone laser market.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
DroneShield is looking to parlay the booming demand for ways to defeat the threat from uncrewed aircraft into roughly tripling of sales in the coming years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The Chinese eVTOL industry is robust.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Baykar’s Bayraktar Kizilelma uncrewed combat air vehicle has flown for the first time equipped with an AESA radar, developed by Aselsan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
Hanwha Aerospace has unveiled the design of the first member in a family of future turbofan engines at ADEX 2025 that are sized between 5,500-17,000-lb. thrust.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
Taiwan will spend NT$44.2 billion ($1.4 billion) to scale up manufacturing of uncrewed aircraft systems and become an Asia-Pacific drone production hub by 2030.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The industrial partners working on the Eurodrone uncrewed aircraft system have completed its critical design review.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters is to absorb the fixed-wing uncrewed air system programs of Airbus-owned Survey Copter into its portfolio.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Two companies have unveiled starkly different approaches to meeting the U.S. Army’s pending requirement for a Low-Altitude Stalk and Strike Ordnance system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Pyka has unveiled a new, in-development UAV, the DropShip, that is focused on flying military logistics missions, including parachute dropping cargo.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
London eVTOL operations will require buy-in from existing urban public transportation providers and local and national governmental entities, officials say.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
The Coventry, UK, city council has deployed uncrewed aircraft systems on a wide variety of missions.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
German sensor technology provider Hensoldt has teamed up with compatriot Avilus to push an uncrewed air vehicle offering with a local focus.
Supply Chain

By Ben Goldstein
This is providing fresh capital to help onboard new employees and advance flight testing of the Laila uncrewed hybrid eVTOL.
Advanced Air Mobility

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