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Sweden has selected a drone from French company Parrot for its Home Guard military reserve unit. The project stipulated the procurement of Parrot’s Anafi USA small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which is specifically designed to meet US Army requirements. Continue reading
Tower 22, the U.S. base in Jordan where three American service members were killed last month, is not simply a “logistics support base,” as the Pentagon has described it. Continue reading
Ukrainian soldiers have achieved a notable feat by capturing an almost undamaged Russian reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) known as the Orlan-30. Continue reading
Ukraine has announced plans to start mass production of loitering munitions, which will look, for all intents and purposes, like a clone of the Lancet kamikaze drone. Continue reading
To meet emerging capability requirements in a resource constrained environment, the U.S. Army has announced it will rebalance its aviation modernization investments across new and enduring platforms. Warfighting is changing more rapidly than it has in decades, and the Army is continuously transforming based on lessons learned and a sober assessment of the modern battlefield. Continue reading
The Australian Government has secured hundreds of highly skilled jobs while driving innovation in Australia’s local defence industry with the allocation of an additional A$399 million (USD 260M) for the ongoing development of the MQ-28A Ghost Bat. Continue reading
The Orlan-30 unmanned aerial vehicle system, developed by the Special Technology Center under the Rosoboronexport brand, is currently being showcased at the World Defense Show 2024 in Saudi Arabia. Continue reading
At the World Defense Show 2024 (WDS 2024) exhibition in Saudi Arabia, Raytheon, now part of RTX Corporation, is displaying its Coyote Block 2+ kinetic effector. This variant is designed as a low-cost, rail-launched missile solution for Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) missions, with a boost rocket motor and a turbine engine. Continue reading