A drone was filmed over Idlib on Sunday and allegedly carried out a strike on a car using the secretive R9X “ninja” missile, a modified version of a Hellfire missile that uses blades to kill instead of a warhead. Continue reading
Category Archives: Military UAS
France Accelerates UAV Procurement for French Navy
French Navy’s future tactical VTOL drone system
As part of a larger potential recovery plan to help the French aerospace industry cope with the current economic crisis, the French ministry of the Armed Forces announced on its Twitter account that the procurement of rotary and fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for the French Navy will be made ahead of schedule. Continue reading
Turkey’s Bayraktar Completes 200,00 Flight Hours
Bayraktar TB2 drone at Geçitkale Airport in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Dec. 16, 2019
Turkey’s indigenous armed drone (UAV) Bayraktar TB2 has completed 200,000 hours of operational flight hours, becoming the first domestically developed aerial vehicle to achieve such an extensive flight time in the nation’s aviation history, chief technology officer of Baykar, the developer of the TB2, announced. Continue reading
US to Change Policy on Overseas Drone Sales
The Trump administration plans to reinterpret a Cold War-era arms agreement between 34 nations with the goal of allowing U.S. defense contractors to sell more American-made drones to a wide array of nations, three defense industry executives and a U.S. official told Reuters. Continue reading
AeroVironment Gets NATO $80M Potential Contract
Puma 3AE
AeroVironment, Inc. announced its receipt of two firm-fixed-price orders totalling $9,804,448 from the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA). The orders, received on March 5, 2020 and April 16, 2020, encompass the procurement of Raven and Puma 3 AE tactical UAS and spares. Delivery for the first order is anticipated by August 2020 and the second order by October 2020. Continue reading
GA-ASI Exploits Additive Manufacturing
MQ-9B SkyGuardian
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) is looking to expand the application of metal and non-metal components created using additive manufacturing (AM) processes across its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) product lines to seek further production efficiencies. Continue reading
Taiwan’s Navy Upgrades Drone Fleet
Albatross
The Taiwanese military announced that in response to the January 2019 drone crash and other mechanical failures, its entire fleet of Albatross unmanned aerial vehicles is to be upgraded. Continue reading
US Air Force to Test Fighter Drone Against Human Pilot
Air Force researchers are designing an autonomous aircraft that can take down a manned plane in air-to-air combat, with the goal of pitting the two against each other in July 2021. Continue reading