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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Taiwan’s NCSIST have successfully tested the integrated Mighty Hornet IV attack UAV—an upgraded MQM-178 Firejet target drone—validating the NCSIST payload and mission system without requiring design changes. Continue reading
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is accepting solution briefs for the Containerized Autonomous Drone Delivery System (CADDS). Today’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS) often require a one-to-one human-to-platform model, where soldiers must manually launch, recover, and refit each drone. Continue reading
Amid the Department of Defense’s push for “drone dominance” and a goal to field 300,000 one-way attack drones by 2028, 2nd Marine Logistics Group has produced the Marine Corps’ first NDAA-compliant, 3D-printed drone. Continue reading
The U.S. War Department has announced the 25 vendors invited to compete in Phase I of the Drone Dominance Program (DDP), an acquisition reform effort designed to rapidly field low-cost, unmanned, one-way attack drones at scale as part of strengthening America’s Arsenal of Freedom. Continue reading
The UK Ministry of Defence has decided not to deploy Watchkeeper reconnaissance drones to Ukraine and will instead decommission the fleet. Continue reading
ULTRA is the heavy-lift, long-range drone developed by British company Windracers and used by Ukrainian forces for more than three years. Built as a modular platform, ULTRA can carry substantial payloads and deliver them precisely to designated locations. Continue reading
Airbus SE says it will deliver a concept version of its A400M “mothership” cargo aircraft by 2029. Developed with a European customer, the concept uses a modular roll-on, roll-off system to deploy drones. Continue reading
– General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and the Mitchell Institute named the 184th Attack Squadron from Ebbing Air National Guard Base the 2024 RPA Squadron of the Year. Continue reading