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Europe's Future unmanned Combat Air System
May 28, 2021 (SPX)
The setting up of SATNUS Technologies, S.L. reaffirms the commitment of GMV, SENER Aeroespacial and TECNOBIT- GRUPO OESlA with FCAS, through the Next Generation...
AFRL completes Golden Horde Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb flight demonstrations
May 28, 2021 (AFNS)
During the flight test, two F-16s from the 96th Test Wing Eglin Air Force Base simultaneously released their weapons, with four released from one aircraft and t...
Poland becomes first NATO country to buy Turkish drones
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
The deal will be a boost for the Turkish defence sector, which Erdogan has said should meet the country's own military hardware requirements and export to allie...
U.S. Navy drones to move from Guam to Japan
May 17, 2021 (UPI)
In an undated statement, the ministry cited an "increasingly severe security environment surrounding Japan," noting that "it is critical to enhance ISR [intelli...
New drone attack targets US forces in Iraq
May 08, 2021 (AFP)
The attack on the Ain Al-Asad air base was the fourth targeting US troops in Iraq in less than a week, as an armed campaign blamed on pro-Iranian groups intensi...
Skyborg ACS has successful first flight
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
Termed Milestone 1 of the Autonomous Attritable Aircraft Experimentation (AAAx) campaign, the ACS performed a series of foundational behaviors necessary to char...
Sagetech Avionics and Pen Aviation Sign MOU to Integrate Detect and Avoid System
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
Under this agreement, Sagetech Avionics and Pen Aviation will work together to certify the PEN UAV series, equipped with Sagetech's technologies, for UAS operat...
Air Force testing new capabilities for MQ-9 drone during exercise
May 04, 2021 (UPI)
According to a press release from the wing, the new capabilities include battlefield and airspace communications enhancements as well as target identification t...
CENTCOM chief cites drones, radicalization as foremost Middle East issues
Apr 30, 2021 (UPI)
McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, spoke to a virtual gathering sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, said on Friday that the regional probl...
Future drones likely to resemble 300-million-year-old flying machine
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
A team of PhD students led by UniSA Professor of Sensor Systems, Javaan Chahl, spent part of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown designing and testing key parts of a dra...
Cuban engineers' dreams take flight with home-grown drones
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
From afar one could be fooled: soaring and swooping with its 1.3-meter (4.3-foot) wingspan, the mechanical bird flies autonomously for an hour at a time, and bo...
DLR develops an unmanned stratospheric aircraft
Apr 23, 2021 (SPX)
Their deployment is limited by factors of time and location and highly dependent on the weather. A team from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrums fur...
Skydweller Aero validates initial flight hardware and autopilot software
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
The company led preliminary testing of their proprietary autonomous software, while measuring and evaluating multiple open-loop system identification inputs to ...
MQ-9 Reaper improvements expected to extend service life
Apr 21, 2021 (UPI)
Some existing versions of the drone aircraft will receive retrofit enhancements already installed on versions currently in production by General Atomics Aeronau...
Mexico says cartels using drones to attack security forces
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
"We have found that there are some cartels using drones with explosives," the general said during President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's daily news conference....
Northrop Grumman completes first flight of Japan's RQ-4B Global Hawk
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
"The unarmed RQ-4B Global Hawk will provide Japan with on-demand intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information supporting the Japan Air Self-Defense...
Drone blast hits Iraq airport in new tactic against US troops
Apr 15, 2021 (AFP)
There were no casualties in the strike on the capital of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region late Wednesday, although it did cause damage to a building in...
Aerospace firms End State Solutions and Near Space announce joint agreement
Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)
End State Solutions advances new aerospace technology through certification. NSC operates the FAA designated Tillamook Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Test Range...
Drone attack targets Kurdish Iraq's Arbil airport
Apr 14, 2021 (AFP)
"A drone charged with TNT targeted a coalition base at Arbil's airport," the ministry said, adding that no one was hurt in the blast but a building was damaged....
First universal UAV optimized for both payload and distance shows best-in-class results
Apr 09, 2021 (SPX)
The hybrid patented design combines the best elements of drones on the market - it provides the take-off and landing maneuverability of multirotor drones, and t...
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