Testing
* Raytheon, an RTX business, fired a new version of the company's combat-proven Coyote family of products from a helicopter during a recent test at Nine Mile Training Center, giving military forces a new capability to detect, identify, locate and defeat threats on the battlefield. The new variant, Coyote
The University of North Dakota Center for Innovation recently announced three $50,000 awards — one to each of three companies, for $150,000 in total — for Project RuralReach, an initiative designed to harness unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology to revolutionize rural living, enhance economic resilience and support rural communities across
The Netherlands is upgrading its Puma All Environment (AE) small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and procuring larger Puma Long Endurance (LE) UAS, the Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on its website on 19 March. The contract was signed with US company AeroVironment in Utrecht, the Netherlands, earlier the same
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A Swedish defense technology startup is aiming to disrupt the counter-drone landscape with a low-cost, high-speed interceptor designed to meet the growing threat of small unmanned aerial systems. In an interview with NextGen Defense, Karl Rosander, CEO of Nordic Air Defence (NAD), detailed the company’s development of the Kreuger100
Transport
The U.S. Marine Corps is actively integrating unmanned aerial systems into its logistics operations, with the T150/TRV150 cargo drone emerging as a pivotal asset in enhancing battlefield resupply capabilities. The TRV150 is a versatile, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) drone designed for autonomous or remote-controlled delivery of
Business
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Qatar of the MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.96 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale
North Korea has once again demonstrated its ambitions to bolster its strategic surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with the public unveiling of the , a High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) drone that bears an unmistakable resemblance to the American RQ-4 Global Hawk. First presented at the Weapons and Equipment Exhibition 2023 in Pyongyang, the
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* Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. has unveiled Acoustic Resonance Mitigation (ARM), a pioneering technology that disables drones using directed acoustic energy. ARM works by emitting sonic, ultrasonic, and/or subsonic waves at a drone, thereby inducing vibrations and /or Prandtl layer instability that will lead to flight failure. Propeller blades are
Business
Australian aerospace start-up Drone Forge and Airbus have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to collaborate on the deployment and operational integration of the Flexrotor unmanned aerial system. This agreement, which includes the acquisition of Flexrotor systems, marks a critical step towards transforming uncrewed aviation with game-changing solutions and technologies
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The U.S. Navy says it is working to reduce the growing costs of fighting Houthi drones launched from Yemen by placing two new experimental systems on destroyers that are slated to deploy later this summer. "We're going to be deploying the Ford strike group with two
Business
Virginia-based Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has announced that its Mission Technologies division was selected to develop an open architecture High-Energy Laser (HEL) weapon system for the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO). HII will develop and test a HEL prototype to acquire, track and destroy
Software
* Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, has launched Raptor, a powerful software suite that enables autonomous drones to navigate and extract accurate ground coordinates in the absence of GPS. This technology transforms the resilience and reliability of unmanned systems, enabling autonomy at scale across warfighting, humanitarian and