UAS

By Chen Chuanren
Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. and U.S. uncrewed systems company AEVEX have signed a memorandum geared toward the manufacturing of UAS.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Tony Osborne
French developer Survey Copter is looking to bring its CAPA-X vertical-takeoff-and-landing, fixed-wing uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) to market by the end of 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
European missile manufacturer MBDA has paired advanced anti-armor missiles with uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), enabling targets to be struck beyond line of sight.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Northrop Grumman's high-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) has arrived at the Northern Territory’s RAAF Base Tindal in Australia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Chen Chuanren
The Aviation Industry Corp. of China has conducted the first test flight of the HH-100 cargo uncrewed aircraft system.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Tony Osborne
The two companies are studying Pearl-family business jet engines as an option to power military uncrewed aerial systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Temel Kotil, the general manager of Turkish Aerospace, has been replaced after leading the company for eight years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Sustainable aviation fuel cuts contrails; MTU progresses fuel cells; medical evacuation drone; and vertical-takeoff-and-landing cargo drone in the UAE.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army is hunting for a new large, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft system.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus is to adapt a German Air Force Eurofighter combat aircraft into a testbed for manned-unmanned teaming technologies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Operators are working to receive automated flight approvals.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has lifted the veil on its concept for an autonomous collaborative combat aircraft that would accompany current combat aircraft into battle.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The company is flight-testing a subscale rotor blown wing as it pursues advanced UAS for an array of missions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The Pentagon’s advanced research agency has selected six teams to develop preliminary designs for a shipborne VTOL uncrewed aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A Japanese consortium has committed to invest $100 million in Aalto, the Airbus-owned spinoff company flying the Zephyr high-altitude, pseudo-satellite UAS.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Amazon has gained FAA approval for beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights of its cargo drones to expand its delivery area in College Station, Texas.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
German police are investigating a collision between a consumer drone and a German Air Force Eurofighter combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A presolicitation notice on May 23 by the Army’s contracting agency calls for industry to submit ideas for a 1-ton-capable, cargo uncrewed aircraft system.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Tony Osborne
Oslo plans to spend an extra $56 billion on defense over the next 12 years, with surveillance of the High North and Arctic seen as a priority.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Brinc has unveiled a quadcopter with automated flight controls designed to respond to 911 calls in less than 70 sec.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed into law a bipartisan transportation bill.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
DARPA has selected six of nine concepts studied under Phase 1A of the Ancillary program to proceed into the 10-month Phase 1B.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Saab is preparing to fly an uncrewed aircraft system demonstrator that could support efforts to develop a future combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Recent trials of UAV operations from a carrier validate that such systems can increasingly replace missions handled by crewed platforms, Adm. Ben Key says.
Aircraft & Propulsion