At the recently held MADEX2025 International Maritime Defense Exhibition in Busan, South Korea, South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries unveiled for the first time a conceptual design model of a new drone carrier called HCX-23 Plus. Continue reading
MIT’s AI-Enabled Control System Helps Autonomous Drones Stay on Target in Uncertain Environments
An autonomous drone carrying water to help extinguish a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada might encounter swirling Santa Ana winds that threaten to push it off course. Rapidly adapting to these unknown disturbances inflight presents an enormous challenge for the drone’s flight control system. Continue reading
Britain Wants to Launch Large Drones from Transit Vans
The UK Ministry of Defence is seeking industry input for a new rapid-launch drone system under “Project VOLLEY”, aiming to field multiple mobile launchers capable of deploying five drones in under four minutes – with each drone launched at one-minute intervals. Continue reading
Alpine Eagle Sentinel – a Drone-Based Counter-UAS Swarm System
The Sentinel Counter-UAS System is an air-to-air sensor & interceptor network designed to detect, classify, and intercept unmanned aerial systems (UAS), including small drones, micro-UAVs, and loitering munitions. Continue reading
NUSTL Publishes Assessment Report on Blue UAS for First Responders in an Urban Environment
The National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) is a federal laboratory within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate. Continue reading
Safety-Assured High-Speed Navigation for MAVs
A groundbreaking development by Professor Fu Zhang and researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has enabled drones and micro air vehicles (MAVs) to emulate the flight capabilities of birds more closely than ever before. Continue reading
AERTEC to Develop TARSIS Systems for the Spanish Ministry of Defence
– AERTEC is going to develop three UAS class I SMALL (less than 150 kg MTOW) systems of its TARSIS ISTAR model for integration and validation of new functionalities and payloads developed by the Directorate General for Armaments and Material (DGAM) in Spain. Continue reading
Executive Orders Aim to Accelerate US Drone Sector and Increase Security
President Donald Trump on Friday signed executive orders to bolster U.S. defenses against threatening drones and to boost domestic production. Continue reading