Commercial
REGENT, the company pioneering electric seagliders for sustainable maritime transportation, has announced a strategic investment from Japan Airlines Innovation Fund, a strategic fund that is the venture arm of Japan Airlines (JAL), one of the world’s premier carriers. This investment in REGENT serves as a first step in the
Six flights due to land at Dublin Airport on Saturday afternoon were diverted due to drone sightings on the air field. Flight operations were suspended for approximately 40 minutes for safety reasons following two confirmed sightings of drones. Operations were suspended at 2.11pm, and resumed at 2:49pm on
Video
The video below captures the moment that a U.S. Air Force fighter safely shot down a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon on February 4th. At 2:39 pm Eastern time, an F-22 Raptor from the 1st Fighter Wing at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. fired one AIM-9X Sidewinder into the approximately
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. will manufacture and perform demonstration flights of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) unmanned Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) aircraft. Following a 12-month base period that culminated in a critical design review (CDR), AFRL exercised a build and flight test option. GA-ASI’s innovative Gambit
Transport
Just 21 months after receiving $5.1M seed funding and with only 9 months from concept to first flight, MightyFly is ready to unveil the next generation of its aircraft, the MightyFly Cento. Aircraft Specs & Cargo Logistics Platform Capabilities The Cento, previously referred to as the MF-100, is a
Transport
Roughly a month after Amazon Prime Air made its first deliveries in California and Texas, it’d served fewer than 10 households — and it’s already laid off more than half the employees at those locations. That’s according to a pair of new reports at The Information and Business
Testing
Textron Systems Corporation, a Textron Inc. company, announced that the Aerosonde Unmanned Aircraft System aboard the USS Miguel Keith, designated ESB 5, took its first operational flight. The inaugural mission follows an October 2022 contract award by the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to provide unmanned
Military
Linden Blue, CEO of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has issued the following statement on the Ukraine conflict: The world has reacted in almost unanimous support for the Ukrainian cause, but those efforts have overlooked one of the most obvious and force-multiplying technologies of modern warfare: Long-range and enduring, stand-off sensing,
Weapons Systems / Lasers
Israeli armed drones use gravity bombs that produce no noise or smoke as they fall, making them hard for enemies to anticipate or evade, and the largest model of the aircraft can carry up to a tonne of munitions, the military says. After more than two decades of secrecy, Israel
Regulations
Autonomous inspection and monitoring solutions provider Percepto has announced a first-of-its-kind exemption denial from the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA’s denial provides cause for the whole industry to celebrate, as for the first time it allows Percepto to operate Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)
Commercial
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., is a “No Drone Zone” for Super Bowl LVII. Drones will be restricted during the following times and days: Game Day, Sunday, Feb. 12 * Restrictions begin at 11 a.m. MST within two-nautical-miles around the stadium up to 2,000 feet in altitude. * The
Targets
Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems Inc., Sacramento, California, is awarded a $49,568,200 firm-fixed-price contract for the production and delivery of 55 full rate production Lot 4 BQM-177A Surface Launched Aerial Targets, to include associated 55 Rocket-Assisted Takeoff Attachment kits, 277 mission kits, as well as associated technical and administrative