Military
Kratos has provided a rendering of its Thanatos drone for the first time. The company says it hopes to have gotten a contract by next year related to this stealth drone, the most advanced design the company has unveiled to date. Though the potential customer remains unnamed, the artist'
Military
Slovenian drone maker C-Astral recently provided reconnaissance systems to Ukrainian troops - its unmanned aerial system Belin — otherwise known as Bramor C4EYE — made their way to the embattled country. “It [the drone] is in fact being used by the Ukrainians and has been for some time,” Jernej Moderc, a Bramor
Military
Germany has arrested a businessman for allegedly selling components to Russia that are used in military gear, including drones currently deployed by Moscow's troops in Ukraine, prosecutors said last Thursday. The suspect from the central city of Kassel, who was not named, has been accused of exporting various
Propulsion
As the US Navy seeks to develop and field advanced unmanned systems, the Naval Air Systems Command’s Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program will look to the FVR-90 to continue VTOL experimentation and maturation efforts due to its tactical mobility and agility. The US Navy recently entered into an
Military
Russia has been combining the use of Shahed drones with cheaper and lighter domestically-produced Italmas UAVs in its attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. Russian media suggested on 23 October that Russian forces had used new long-range Italmas drones and their variants for the first time in Ukraine during a drone attack
Military
The first of 16 Protector aircraft, the RAF’s latest Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS), has arrived at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. Equipped with a suite of surveillance equipment, Protector brings a critical global surveillance capability for the RAF. Remotely piloted from RAF Waddington it can operate at heights up to
Military
China has unveiled a new long-duration surveillance and precision strike drone, known as the KVD002, an aerial weapon that could have significant implications in the event of a conflict over Taiwan. The newly unveiled KVD002 armed reconnaissance drone of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Army has likely
Military
Russian professionals have built an aviation unmanned aerial vehicle called the MM-1, created with conventional foamplast. Its remarkable feature is its invisibility to radio-electronic warfare systems. Specifics of this development were shared with TASS by a spokesperson from the innovative technology center, TsAGIStart, situated within the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute’s
Military
Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, is introducing its new Black Hornet 4 Personal Reconnaissance System at this week’s Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) conference in Washington D.C. Black Hornet 4 represents the next generation of lightweight nano-drones, building on its predecessor to deliver
VTOL
The Commander of the Indonesian Navy Aviation Center (Pusat Penerbangan Angkatan Laut, Danpuspenerbal), Rear Admiral Dr. Imam Musani, closed the Unmanned Air System (UAS) training for the Schiebel Camcopter S-100 and inspected the operational flying capabilities of the new Ron 700 Drone of Squadron 700 Wing Air 2 Puspenerbal on
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) has delivered the first MQ-9B Protector RG1 medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the United Kingdom. The first of a planned 16 Protector RG1 air vehicles was loaded onto an Antonov An-124 airlifter at the company's Poway production facility in southern
Business
Rheinmetall will deliver a dozen new operational Luna NG unmanned air systems to the German military from 2025, under a funding allocation approved by Berlin on 20 September. The budget committee of the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, on 20 September approved a contract amendment for the procurement of the