Category Archives: Military UAS

Northrop Grumman Gets $54M US Navy RQ-4A BAMS Contract

Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle conducts tests over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is awarded a $53,773,633 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide continuing operator, maintenance, logistics and sustainment engineering support, to include training, supply chain and spares management for peculiar items, peculiar support equipment, and technical publications in support of the RQ-4A Global Hawk Broad Area Maritime Surveillance – Demonstrator (BAMS-D) aircraft being mission-capable for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions for the Navy. Continue reading

Latvia May Be Second NATO Ally to Buy Turkish Drones

Latvian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Artis Pabriks (L) and Baykar Makina’s General Manager Haluk Bayraktar at Baykar Makina’s R&D and production facilities, Ankara, Turkey, June 7, 2021

Latvia has signaled it could be the second European Union and NATO member state to acquire Turkish armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that have scored high-profile successes in the field, following last month’s purchase by Poland. Continue reading

Boeing MQ-25A Unmanned Aerial Tanker Refuels F/A-18 Hornet in Successful First Test

The Boeing MQ-25 T1 test asset transfers fuel to a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet on June 4, 2021

For the first time in history, the U.S. Navy and Boeing have demonstrated air-to-air refueling using an unmanned aircraft – the Boeing-owned MQ-25 T1 test asset – to refuel another aircraft. Continue reading