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In a historic milestone, Turkey on Monday April 10th commissioned its long-anticipated largest warship, bolstering its naval capabilities and making the country one of the few nations in the world with a domestically built aircraft carrier. Set to be Turkey’s flagship, the multipurpose amphibious assault ship TCG Anadolu
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A new company manufacturing kamikaze racing drones for Ukraine has emerged from stealth mode. One Way Aerospace – the name comes from the Pentagon term ‘one way attack drones’ – has founders including an undisclosed British Royal Air Force veteran James Earl, former Australian combat engineer and investor listed on Forbes 30
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Production delays to manufacture Boeing’s MQ-25A Stingray pushed its initial operational capability by a year, the head program executive in charge of Navy unmanned aerial systems announced recently. The MQ-25A Stingray, the first major unmanned aerial vehicle to deploy on U.S. aircraft carriers, will serve as
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Insitu, a Boeing Company, announced its Integrator Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exhibition in National Harbor, Maryland. Integrator VTOL launches vertically on ships or land without sacrificing payload capacity or endurance. The system retains the performance of fixed-
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Turkish Aerospace has been working on outfitting Aksungur with a sonobuoy monitoring and launching system for about 2 years in order to increase Aksungur’s efficiency in ASW. The project is divided into three phases. Aksungur is expected to gain sonobuoy monitoring capability in the first phase, which means it
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After years of reticence about the use of small, cheap suicide drones in combat, the Ukraine conflict has convinced the French military it’s a capability troops cannot do without in a future conflict. Earlier this month the French Ministry of the Armed Forces announced it had narrowed down a
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Aeronautics Ltd. has announced that it has recently signed a mid-life upgrade contract with the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) for its existing Orbiter 2 Mini UAS array. Under the terms of the contract, Aeronautics will provide the FDF with a comprehensive mid-life upgrade package that includes a full
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The Chinese government has donated four NORINCO Type PMR-50 drone to the Benin Republic to improve its security and crime detection amid the emergence of terror activities around the country. This is part of an effort to increase safety, security, and crime detection. The donation comes as Benin faces
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. is working with the U.S. Marine Corps on a series of Service-Level Training Exercises using a company-owned MQ-9A Unmanned Aircraft System to support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command. The SLTE 2-23 is being conducted near Twentynine Palms,
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AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. has announced that three branches of European military forces have taken delivery of the Company's newest fixed-wing drone innovation, the eBee VISION - the next generation in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance unmanned aerial systems pioneered by AgEagle. The rugged eBee VISION drone delivers live,
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At the opening of SOFINS, the Special Forces exhibition, SURVEY Copter, an Airbus subsidiary since 2011 and a pioneer in the design, production and operational support of light tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), is presenting a new light tactical UAS: CAPA-X. The design of this light tactical UAS, imagined
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Turkish defense firm Baykar Technologies has unveiled its new Bayraktar TB-3 drone for launch from naval vessels. Company chief technology officer Selcuk Bayraktar shared photos of the unmanned system on social media, revealing that it is now on the production line pending first flight. The TB-3 drone is