Military
Turkey is reversing the loyal wingman concept to protect its newly launched Akinci drones - regarded as one of the most advanced unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs). Their inclusion is expected to lead the Turkish air force to a brand new stage in its air-to-air and air-to-land warfare doctrines. With
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Anomaly starts at 2.23 Space Launch Delta 30 was forced to terminate the first test flight of space startup Firefly Aerospace’s rocket due to an anomaly Sept. 2, resulting in a dramatic explosion over the Pacific Ocean near Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Firefly was testing its Alpha
Electronic Systems
The new YellowScan Explorer can be mounted on a light manned aircraft or switched to different types of UAV platforms. The YellowScan Explorer is the first LiDAR that can be mounted on a light manned aircraft or helicopter and be switched to a UAV platform. This versatility allows the end
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Joby’s electric air taxi, which has recently swept the market through multiple large fundraising rounds, a successful IPO, and an acquisition of Uber Elevate amongst others, has now announced that they have become the first company to fly an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft as part of NASA’
Business
An Italy-based defense firm that has supplied small drones to the country’s special forces was quietly and illegally purchased by Chinese state companies, Italian investigators have alleged. On Thursday, Italian financial crimes police raided the company, which one official named as Alpi Aviation. Alpi Aviation produces the Strix UAV
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EHang Holdings Limited announced that its flagship passenger-grade AAV EHang 216 and Falcon logistics model have completed Beyond Visual Line of Sight trial flights for airport transport and parcel delivery in Estonia under the European Union’s GOF 2.0 Integrated Urban Airspace Validation (“GOF 2.0”) project. The project
Control Stations
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) continues to advance new levels of autonomous control for unmanned aircraft, successfully completing an airborne Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) demonstration on Aug. 25, 2021 pairing a company-owned MQ-20 Avenger with a modified King Air 200 as a surrogate for 4th- and 5th-generation tactical fighters. The flight
Testing
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Air Wolf Tactical Drone System completed a 100 percent successful flight at the recently approved Burns Flat, Oklahoma Range Facility. The Kratos Air Wolf Mission, which was the inaugural flight at the Burns Flat Range location, included multiple new payloads carried
Business
Plymouth Rock Technologies Inc., a company developing detection apparatus and unmanned technologies, is has announced the sale of custom drones to Survey-AR to deliver a drone swarm test capability. The project will assess an autonomous drone swarm system to optimize weather and air quality monitoring in atmospheric boundary layer environments
Military
In cooperation with UK and Netherlands airspace authorities, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. flew a company-owned, MQ-9B SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) on September 2nd. from RAF Waddington across the North Sea to Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands,
First Responders
Advanced Aircraft Company (AAC), a developer of long-endurance hybrid-electric unmanned aircraft systems designed for a wide range of commercial, defense and public safety applications, has been named one of seven finalists in the NIST First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s
Video
Alligator in Florida snatches drone mid-air, smokes billows from his mouth after. The footage, reportedly filmed in Florida, shows shows the moment the alligator snapped its jaws shut around the small drone. However, the device likely combusted moments afterwards, as the video shows smoke billowing out of the animal'