Autonomous Flight Technologies, Inc. has developed and prototyped an American made target drone designed to be utilized in CUAS testing named T.H.R.E.A.T (Tactical High Reconnaissance Aerial Evasive Target). Continue reading
Taiwan Fires Flares at Chinese Drones Flying Over Heavily-Fortified Kinmen Islands
The Taiwan Army Kinmen Defense Command stated on the morning of Thursday (August 4) that the Kinmen and Beiding areas detected two unidentified aircraft passing over the sky on Wednesday (August 3) evening. They fired flares to drive them away. Continue reading
Ukraine Orders Vector Drones from Quantum-Systems
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has selected Vector drones from Quantum-Systems. The delivery in military support for Ukraine’s armed forces is being financed by German funds for security capacity building. Continue reading
West Point Cadets Get CLDT Drone Training
Improving data collection and communication methods on the battlefield is an ever-evolving process at the West Point U.S. Military Academy. Because of this, professors in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science lent their robotics expertise to cadets to expand their training in battlefield tactics through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) during Cadet Leadership Development Training from July 26-28. Continue reading
Skyports Closes Series B with $3M from ST Engineering Ventures
Skyports, the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) vertiport infrastructure and drone services provider, has completed the final close of its Series B capital raise with fresh investment from ST Engineering through its Corporate Venture Capital unit, ST Engineering Ventures. Continue reading
MQ-9 Reapers Prove Value in ACE Pacific Operation
Airmen on the South Pacific island of Palau watched intently as an MQ-9 Reaper flew in for an automatic landing recently. None grabbed the controls from the pilot, 7,000 miles away at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The landing marked the first time in a major Pacific exercise that the Reaper landed without ground control. Continue reading
The Ultimate Supersonic Interceptor – F-106 Delta Dart
The Convair F-106 Delta Dart was the main all-weather interceptor jet of the United States Air Force for almost 20 years. Designed from scratch as the so-called “Ultimate Interceptor,” pilots would reportedly fight each other to fly it. Continue reading
Al Qaeda Leader Struck by AGM-114 R9X Hellfire Missiles on his Balcony
The strike that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri occurred at 9:48 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday July 30. Two AGM-114 R9X Hellfire missiles were fired from an MQ-9 Reaper at Zawahiri as he stepped onto the balcony of a safe house in the Shirpur neighborhood in Kabul, where he had been living with members of his family. Continue reading