UAS

Australian company is drawing on its space sensor background to hone in on reusable, low-cost UAS.

DARPA has decided to move forward with a new X-plane designed by Aurora Flight Sciences.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Air Force have announced a joint research program on AI for UAVs to operate alongside crewed fighters.

Turkish uncrewed air system developer Baykar says its new Bayraktar TB3 uncrewed air system has demonstrated flight endurance of 32 hr.

The new Contested Logistics System-300 Nautical Miles (CLS-300) will enter propulsion tests before June and flight tests by the end of 2024, the company said.

The long-expected contract award will extend MQ-9B operations to deep within the Arctic Circle.

Despite the conflict in Gaza, the Middle East’s military modernization is continuing.

The meeting will come as Austin is in Bahrain and includes nations that are a part of the Combined Maritime Forces partnership under the U.S. 5th Fleet.

Overair has received a U.S. Navy contract to develop the high-integrity individual blade control tech in its Butterfly optimum-speed tiltrotor eVTOL aircraft.

The U.S. arm of Germany’s Quantum Systems has signed a contract with the New Zealand Ministry of Defense to supply its Vector uncrewed aircraft system.

The test, announced on Dec. 15 by India's Defense Research and Development Organization, is a step towards flight trials of a follow-on, full-scale flying wing UAS.

BVLOS approval is critical to efficiently expanding the drone delivery network.

Natilus, the developer of a blended-wing body unmanned cargo aircraft, has unveiled its concept for remote pilot control stations,.

The timely availability of UAS due to fleet maintenance issues has come into question–possibly jeopardizing mission objectives.

With over 3,000 aircraft delivered since 1984, the Cessna Caravan is a workhorse of global aviation—known not only for its ubiquity, but also its utility.

A team of government and industry partners led by Wisk Aero has announced the successful completion of a series of unmanned flight trials in New Zealand.

The payloads should be able to find, fix and track maritime ships, with weapons-level targeting accuracy, a request for information released on Dec. 5 says.

The need to counter faster, more powerful drones at a large scale is becoming the “problem of our time,” a top Defense Department weapons buyer says.

Cambium, a California startup focusing on advanced materials and machine learning for aerospace and defense products, has landed $19 million in venture capital.

The first flight of Sirtap—which Airbus says will have an endurance of 20 hr. and be certified to fly in segregated airspace—is planned for 2025.

As part of DARPA's Sprint program, Bell is continuing development on a design concept known as Sea-based Logistics Unmanned Rearm/Refuel Platform.

The award by the innovation arm of the Air Force Research Laboratory supports testing of the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System and a hydrogen fuel cell.

The unnamed tandem flying-wing UAS was unveiled at the China Hi-Tech Fair, where it was flying with four electric-powered motors, two on each wing.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. will get a chance next year to prove the Predator is worthy of a long-term contract from the U.S. Navy.

Thales and Schiebel have teamed to develop a global market approach to promote the Austrian developed rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system S-100 Camcopter.