Here is a look a look at the top 5 fighter designs that should have gone into production – and the reasons why they didn’t. Continue reading
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Dedrone, Vodafone and Amazon Web Services Partner to Provide Airspace Security for Critical Infrastructure
Vodafone Business has unveiled a powerful new service, combining the ultra-quick response times of distributed Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) technology with the fast speeds of 5G. Continue reading
L3Harris in Phase Two of US Navy UAS Trial
L3Harris FVR-90
The U.S. Navy has selected L3Harris Technologies to participate in phase two of a demonstration to identify and evaluate unmanned aerial systems capable of operating in austere deployed environments without additional support systems. Continue reading
FLIR Systems Acquires Altavian, Inc.
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired Altavian, Inc., a privately-held manufacturer of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) for defense and public safety customers. Altavian’s airframes integrate multiple sensors, including FLIR thermal technology, to provide users with decision support and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability. Continue reading
USAF and Australia Partner to Develop Air Breathing Hypersonic Vehicles
The U.S. Department of Defense and the Australian Department of Defence have announced a bilateral effort to advance the development of air-breathing hypersonic technologies. The Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE) is an Allied Prototyping Initiative (API) under the Directorate for Advanced Capabilities within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Continue reading
Mystery Drone Crash in Kenya
Residents of Wajir County in Kenya were shocked after a drone believed to be involved in surveillance crash landed in Eldas. Continue reading
GA-ASI Delivers Final MQ-9A Block 5 to Spain
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. delivered the final two MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft and a Ground Control Station to the Spanish Air Force (SpAF) on Nov. 23, 2020, completing a Foreign Military Sales acquisition of four aircraft and three GCSs. Continue reading
Airbus VSR700 OPV Achieves Autonomous Takeoff and Landing from Moving Platform
The Airbus Helicopters VSR700 optionally piloted vehicle (OPV) has successfully achieved fully autonomous takeoff and landing (ATOL) approaches, validating its autonomy to and from a moving platform and advancing the VSR700 programme towards its end goal: offering a tactical unmanned aerial system (UAS) with ATOL capacities for global navies. Continue reading