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Viasat Inc. and partners Thales, Dimetor, TTP plc and the European Space Agency (ESA), have completed successful flight trials at Cranfield University using the National Flying Laboratory Centre’s Bulldog light aircraft, as part of the Iris RPAS programme. Continue reading
Japan is exploring unconventional approaches to military technology, as its Defence Minister met with a startup developing cardboard-based drones. Continue reading
It looked like something that should not have worked: two full-length Mustang fuselages, two cockpits, two Allison piston engines, and one massive wing tying it all together. But when the Korean War erupted in June 1950, the strange-looking F-82 Twin Mustang became exactly the aircraft America needed. Continue reading
AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the release of Halo_Shield, a modular, distributed, and cost-effective counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) designed to predict, detect, track, identify and defeat advanced airborne threats—including Group 1–5 UAS, coordinated drone swarms, and subsonic cruise missiles—protecting critical infrastructure and deployed forces worldwide. Continue reading
Google abruptly dropped out of a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to create technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms after it was among the successful submissions, according to people briefed on the matter. Continue reading
KULR Technology Group, Inc. , an energy-systems platform company that enables the safe, certifiable deployment of ultra-high-power lithium battery systems for space and defence programs, hyperscale AI data centers, and telecom infrastructure OEMs, announced that it received initial purchase orders totaling nearly $1.0 million from a U.S. defence technology company and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems specializing in first-person view drones for military use. Continue reading
During a nearly daylong attack, a Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 tank withstood 52 strikes from Russian FPV and Molniya drones. The crew had reinforced the vehicle with layered anti-drone protection. Continue reading
The United States Marine Corps awarded a $15.5 million contract to Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, for the Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) Increment 2 program. Continue reading