The U.S. Navy awarded a fixed-price incentive contract valued at $562 million to the Boeing Company for Lot 1 of the low-rate initial production of the MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Category Archives: Military UAS
US Air Force’s ‘Loyal Wingman’ Drones Get New Names – FQ-42 Vengeance and FQ-44 Fury
The Department of the Air Force officially named its newest Collaborative Combat Aircraft the FQ-42 Vengeance and FQ-44 Fury during Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink’s keynote address at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference, Sept. 14.
GA-ASI Mojave First UAS to Complete Battlefield Short Field Ops
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) and Hanwha Aerospace have completed the first-ever flight operations from a simulated battlefield by a medium altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft. The partners proved that the Mojave Short Takeoff and Landing aircraft, or Mojave STOL, could land at a tank and artillery live-fire range during simulated combat conditions and then take off again to continue the mission.
Ukraine Reveals X-Wing Drone Combining AI, Starlink, and Aerial Scouts
Ukrainian company Ukrspecsystems, which develops reconnaissance and strike drones, has publicly presented its RAM-2X strike UAV with an X-shaped wing for the first time. The drone was shown at the MSPO arms exhibition in Poland. Continue reading
Swarm Aero Pitches Gamera for New US Drone Requirements
At the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference 2026, SwarmAero, a developer of large unmanned aircraft systems swarms, unveiled Gamera, which introduces a new category of Group 5 strike and sensing UAS. Continue reading
Skunk Works Expands Production of Lockheed Martin Vectis
The battlespace is evolving and the need for survivable, multi-mission, autonomous capability is rapidly growing with it. Skunk Works is responding with urgency, expanding the program with four more vehicles as the team continues to advance toward first flight in 2027. Continue reading
Shield AI signs X-BAT Letter of Intent with Poland’s PGZ and WZL-2
At a signing event on September 8 at MSPO, the International Defence Industry Exhibition, Shield AI,Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. (PGZ) and Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze nr 2 S.A. (WZL-2) signed a letter of intent to partner on the design, production and delivery of X-BAT, and on sustaining it in Poland. Continue reading
Drone Dominance Program’s Gauntlet 2 at Fort Carson
Gauntlet 2 was the Drone Dominance Program’s most demanding test to date. Operators pushed participants to their limits, flying 1,858 sorties across 23 platforms from 19 companies.