UAS

The installation of the unmanned air warfare center (UAWC) features the MD-5E ground control station.

Amazon Prime Air will trial drone delivery as it has done during previous trials.

With a maximum takeoff weight of 2,500 lb. (1,133 kg), the company describes the aircraft as the “largest civilian drone available for purchase today.”

With a cargo payload of 2 tons, the unnamed UAS is the largest uncrewed transport UAS developed in China.

The Russian aircraft manufacturer is pursuing attack and logistics UAV concepts that have evolved because of the war in Ukraine.

AUKUS defense pact partners have been testing the integration of autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI) on uncrewed air systems (UAS).

The RCCTO and the U.S. Army’s Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center have been developing autonomous ground systems.

Anduril’s plan centers around Arsenal-1, a massive manufacturing facility designed to produce tens of thousands of autonomous military systems annually.

Brig. Gen. Frank Lozano, the program executive officer for Missiles and Space, laid out four planned competitions for next year.

The dual-thrust solid rocket motor for BlueHalo’s Freedom Eagle-1 (FE-1) completed several rounds of testing since being selected by the Army,

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.