UAS VISION
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– Northrop Grumman has been doing detailed design work that lays a path to air-launching its Lumberjack loitering one-way attack drone from Kratos’ stealthy XQ-58 Valkyrie uncrewed aircraft. Multiple manned and unmanned aircraft are being eyed as potential platforms for employing Lumberjack, which is already being tested in surface-launched modes and will have the ability to drop its own smaller precision munitions. Continue reading
China is advancing efforts to challenge one of the world’s most widely exported combat drones, the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2, with a new domestically developed system undergoing flight testing. Continue reading
– Mistral Inc., a provider of advanced defense solutions, together with Uvision Inc. (formerly known as UVision USA), announced that the U.S. Army awarded a multi-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $982,000,000 for the Lethal Unmanned System (LUS) program to procure, field, train, and sustain the HERO 120 loitering munition system. Continue reading
Following 18 years of service the RAF’s MQ9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) has made its final operational flight. Continue reading
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has started prototyping commercial and dual-use technology solutions to provide Counter UAS solutions that defeat group 3 and above adversarial threats, ensure the sovereignty of our national airspace, and protect our personnel, equipment, and facilities at home and abroad. Continue reading
Raytheon, an RTX business, has been awarded a $5.04 billion cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the U.S. Army to supply components for the Coyote Missile System. Continue reading
The Kalashnikov Concern has unveiled an upgraded version of its SKAT 350M unmanned aerial system, now equipped with an integrated HD infrared camera and a night vision module. The new system was showcased in Izhevsk during the annual Gunsmiths’ Day arms exhibition, according to the company’s press service. Continue reading
– Helsing, a European all-domain defence technology company, has unveiled the development of CA-1 Europa, an autonomous uncrewed combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). Helsing showed a full-size design study of the jet at its Grob Aircraft subsidiary. Continue reading