Unifly and SkeyDrone have announced a significant upgrade to the Port of Antwerp-Bruges’ (PoAB) Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management (UTM), DronePortal, a cutting-edge UTM application developed by Unifly. Continue reading
Construction has Started on Baykar Drone Plant in Ukraine
Turkish defence company Baykar has started building a factory near Kyiv that will employ around 500 people and where it will manufacture either its TB2 or TB3 drone models, the company’s chief executive told Reuters. Continue reading
Martin B-26 Marauder – the WW2 ‘Widowmaker’
The Martin B-26 Marauder is an American twin-engined medium bomber that saw extensive service during World War II. The B-26 was built at two locations: Baltimore, Maryland, and Omaha, Nebraska, by the Glenn L. Martin Company. Continue reading
Russia’s Purchase Price for Iranian Shahed-136 Drones Revealed
A hacker group called the Prana Network broke into the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) email servers and grabbed data on the sale of Shahed drones to Russia. Continue reading
Drone that Killed US Troops in Jordan Likely Went Undetected
U.S. forces probably did not detect the approach of the Iranian-made drone that killed three American soldiers last week at a remote base in Jordan, and there was no air defense system on site capable of shooting it down, the military’s initial assessment of the attack has found. Continue reading
French Navy Orders Additional Airbus Maritime Drones
As part of the SMDM contract (“Systèmes de Mini Drones aériens embarqués de la Marine”), Survey Copter, an SME and Airbus Defence and Space subsidiary and a supplier of light tactical unmanned aerial systems has signed an additional firm order with the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) to supply the French Navy with 15 onboard systems (30 aircraft) of Aliaca fixed-wing electric UAS, plus associated training and integrated logistics support. Continue reading
InsideFPV Unveils First ‘Make in India’ Elevate V1 Series Drone
InsideFPV has announced the launch of its groundbreaking Make in India Elevate V1 Series. InsideFPV provides drones that empower its users to engage in cinematography, and STEM education, enhance surveillance capabilities, and agriculture, and capture first-person view videos that were once out of their reach. Continue reading
GA-ASI Gets $17M USAF Support Contract for Italian Air Force MQ-9s
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a face value $16,928,439 cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-priced contract modification (P00003) to previously awarded contract FA8689-23-C-2013. Continue reading