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The battlespace is evolving and the need for survivable, multi-mission, autonomous capability is rapidly growing with it. Skunk Works is responding with urgency, expanding the program with four more vehicles as the team continues to advance toward first flight in 2027. Continue reading
Students from across the United States and around the world will converge on Tulsa this month as RoboNation brings its annual Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) Competition to Oklahoma for the first time. Continue reading
At a signing event on September 8 at MSPO, the International Defence Industry Exhibition, Shield AI,Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. (PGZ) and Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze nr 2 S.A. (WZL-2) signed a letter of intent to partner on the design, production and delivery of X-BAT, and on sustaining it in Poland. Continue reading
Gauntlet 2 was the Drone Dominance Program’s most demanding test to date. Operators pushed participants to their limits, flying 1,858 sorties across 23 platforms from 19 companies.
The French Aeronautical Maintenance Directorate (DMAé) has placed an additional order with Airbus Helicopters following the successful evaluation of an initial U050 Capa-X system acquired at the end of 2025. Continue reading
September 3–4, 2026 marked an exciting milestone: the official kick-off of the DiFeRent CORUS SESAR 3 Project. Continue reading
The U.S. Army selected Boeing to advance to the next phase of competition for the Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) Increment 2 Second Interceptor — a capability that will be designed to protect fixed and forward operating bases from cruise missiles, militarized unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and related aerial threats. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman collaborated with SandboxAQ to demonstrate quantum sensing magnetic navigation on Lumberjack, a Group 3 unmanned aircraft system (UAS), just one month after establishing an objective to fly this capability on this type of platform. Continue reading