Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Force has taken delivery of the Hadid-110, a new jet-powered stealth-oriented suicide drone designed to penetrate modern air defences and strike high-value targets. The most important distinction between the Hadid-110 and the previous generation of suicide drones is the use of a
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. Let me walk you through what Michèle Borcherding, Clara Veihelmann, Luca-Marie Hoffmann, Julius Nieweler, Tobias Wellnitz, Sergen Kaya, and Clemens Justus of Axel Springer Academy for Journalism
C-UAS
As the skies grow more contested and threats from drones and other unmanned aerial systems (UAS) evolve in scale and sophistication, the need for advanced, adaptive defence solutions has never been greater. Microsoft is joining with Lockheed Martin to develop Sanctum -- a new era of counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS)
Testing
China’s heavyweight jet-powered Jiutian drone, said to have a maximum takeoff weight of around 17.6 tons (16 metric tons), has flown. A key mission for the design is expected to be acting as a mothership for swarms of smaller unmanned aerial systems. It has also been shown previously
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* Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics have announced the creation of “Quantum Frontline Industries” (QFI), a German-Ukrainian joint venture that will establish Europe’s first fully automated, industrial-scale foreign production line for drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Under the Build with Ukraine initiative, the new venture will mass-produce battlefield-proven multi-use
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* Amazon Prime Air is more than just another last-mile delivery option for customers—it’s fundamentally an aerospace program rooted in rigorous aerospace principles and standards. This approach has established Prime Air as an industry leader, combining cutting-edge drone design and manufacturing capabilities with sophisticated operational systems that enable safe,
Events
On November 18, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and its Blue Magic Netherlands (BMNL) partners held their second “shark tank” style event in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The event brought together emerging Dutch companies and attracted more than 350 attendees. BMNL provided Dutch businesses with an opportunity to present their capabilities
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* GKN Aerospace has announced a new strategic teaming agreement with leading autonomous platform provider Anduril Industries UK to accelerate the development of advanced uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) and rotorcraft technologies for UK defence programmes. The partnership will target key UK contracts expected in early 2026, delivering modern capability while reinforcing
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Ondas Holdings Inc., a provider of autonomous aerial and ground robot intelligence through its Ondas Autonomous Systems (OAS) business unit and private wireless solutions through Ondas Networks, has announced its intent to invest up to $11 million in Drone Fight Group (DFG), a Ukrainian developer of advanced unmanned aerial systems.
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– Reliable Robotics has announced a new contract with NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) to perform and collect data from operational demonstration flights of its automated Cessna 208B Caravan at and around airports in the national airspace system (NAS) and from flight tests implementing contingency management procedures. Data collected
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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is awarded a $45,752,236 modification (P00014) to a cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price order (N0001923F0041) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001920G0005). This modification exercises an option to provide continued non-recurring engineering, tooling, and labour in support of completing the integrated functional capability
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program office (PMA-263) recently announced that the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Services UAS surpassed one million flight hours in support of operations on land and at sea. Sailors aboard achieved the one million flight hours milestone