The Beardmore Inflexible, also known as the Rohrbach VI, was a giant shoulder-wing, three-engined all-metal prototype bomber aircraft built by William Beardmore and Company at Dalmuir, Scotland and developed in the late 1920s. Continue reading
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Video of Repelled Drone Attack on US Base in Iraq
Footage has surfaced online reportedly showing the moments at which two ‘suicide drones’ were shot down in Iraq. A burst of 20mm cannon fire from a Centurion Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar, or C-RAM, system brings down one of the small unmanned aircraft, while the other is destroyed by a missile of some kind, possibly a Stinger. Continue reading
Elbit Systems Gets Follow-On Contract to Supply Hermes 900 to Brazilian Air Force
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its Brazilian subsidiary, AEL Sistemas S.A., was awarded a contract to supply additional Hermes 900 UAS to the Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira). The contract is in an amount that is not material to Elbit Systems and will be performed over a period of 16 months. Continue reading
Ukraine Flight Tests Drone-Based AWACS
Ukraine’s Infozakhist Research and Production Center test flew the Gekata radio reconnaissance unmanned system for the first time recently, from a small resort near Kiev. Continue reading
Azur Drones Rewarded at World Nuclear Exhibition Awards
A few weeks after its launch, the first autonomous aerial solution for radioactivity detection, Azur Drones Skeyetech-DIZI, has received an award at the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE). Continue reading
Zenith AeroTech, VIRTEX Partner on Long-Endurance, Heavy-Lift, Tethered Drones
Zenith AeroTech, a developer of heavy-lift tethered aerial vehicles (TAVs), announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with VIRTEX Enterprises, an Austin-based electronics manufacturing service provider, to meet increasing customer demand for more TAVs in shorter time frames and for these platforms to be NDAA compliant. Continue reading
General Atomics Gets $23M MQ-9 USAF Support Contract
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $22,569,883 modification (P00020) to previously awarded contract FA8620-20-C-2009 for MQ-9 contractor logistics support. Continue reading
Iranian UAVs are in Venezuela within Range of Miami
Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are stationed in Venezuela, on the northeast tip of South America, where some 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) separate them from skyscrapers in Miami. Continue reading