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In what it claims is the first such attack in history, Ukraine has used drones to strike a pair of Russian Navy Be-12, a twin-turboprop amphibious aircraft. The raid appears to have targeted two of the extremely scarce seagoing planes, potentially halving the number of airframes available to Russia and leaving a question mark over the future service for the type. Continue reading
Ongoing flight operations of the new YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft helped General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., set a new company record this week, pushing past a total of 9 million flight hours. Continue reading
Before being sent toward Poland, Russian forces equipped Gerbera drones with additional fuel tanks to extend their range, a Ukrainian analyst known as Polkovnik GSh (war_home) said. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin is developing new technology to allow F-35 fighter pilots to control drones. WSJ toured the company’s Fort Worth, Texas, facility to see the jets and futuristic tech. Continue reading
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has hailed progress on drones built by his country’s weapons developers, which include what appear to be clones of U.S. systems, and he stressed the importance of unnamed vehicles and artificial intelligence in modernizing his military, state media reported. Continue reading
– TEKEVER, a European provider of AI-driven Autonomous Systems, announced that it has signed a Partnership Agreement with Apex Aviation, a pioneer in Taiwan’s general aviation industry, to bring TEKEVER’s advanced unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and related products to Taiwan for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions tailored to the country’s defence and security needs. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works advanced projects division has lifted the lid on a new, higher-end stealthy Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) type drone named Vectis. The unmanned aircraft is designed to be highly adaptable to an operator’s requirements, whether they be in the United States or elsewhere around the world, and is expected to fly within two years. Continue reading
In the Moscow region, the CEO of Umatex Group, the only Russian carbon fiber producer and a key supplier of raw materials for the production of Shahed/Geran drones, was found shot to death. Continue reading