UAS

With CCA projects emerging across the world, engine manufacturers are mobilizing to secure a piece of the burgeoning market.

A UK team has begun flight tests of an airborne 5G connectivity system.

Seven years after a pivotal demonstration, the service takes a key step toward fielding autonomous resupply rotorcraft.

Boeing on July 22 announced an agreement to explore ways to collaborate with Ukraine’s Antonov on defense programs.

The 2024 National Strategy for the Arctic Region was released July 22.

From uncrewed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to heavy-lift tiltwings, Sikorsky’s family of systems shares common components.

Blades of the first ducted fan thruster in the hybrid propulsion system are “spinning as we speak,” GA-ASI President David Alexander said.

Gen. David Allvin says software advancements make it possible to have the independent systems work together in a way that does not affect security.

The U.S. Marine Corps has chosen Leonardo’s AW139 medium helicopter to demonstrate autonomous logistics resupply.

Tehran’s proxies from the north and south launched 200 or so projectiles.

Tokyo says construction of the destroyer-sized ASEV has been expedited to begin in fiscal 2024.

AFSOC has been undertaking the plan, called the Adaptive Airborne Enterprise, to have one airman control multiple UAS.

An ex-U.S. Air Force civilian employee allegedly transmitted classified information about the vulnerabilities of Air Force aircraft to unauthorized people between November 2020 and March 2021.

Lithuania is stocking up on small UAS as part of an aggressive effort to build out its military’s autonomous capacity through the end of the decade.

USAF is expected to begin flight operations with a high-altitude UAS from RAF Fairford, England, in the coming weeks, sources tell Aviation Week.

BAE Systems has acquired uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) development house Callen-Lenz, absorbing the company into its FalconWorks technology incubator.

The Arlington, Virginia-based defense technology named itself as one of two finalists for the Army’s Next Generation C-UAS Missile (NGCM) program.

With the integration of High Point’s capabilities, Dzyne’s platform will encompass a range of defense technology solutions.

The region is going shopping to address defense shortfalls, with counter-UAS on most countries’ lists.

A large, hybrid-electric-powered flying wing aircraft designed by Northrop Grumman now boasts a military designation number.

Paris drone pact is the first step in structuring the highly fragmented French UAS industry.

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are back on the air defense procurement agenda.

Schiebel, the Austrian developer of the S-100 Camcopter UAS (uncrewed air system), has opened a French subsidiary.

The UAS—a Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. Teros—and payload system completed a five-day Joint Capability Technology Demonstration.

U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is in the market for a long-endurance reconnaissance drone that can land on water and discreetly wait for recovery.