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The UK Royal Navy has launched a significant new phase in unmanned systems integration by testing the Malloy Aeronautics Heavy Lift Drone aboard the British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales as part of the UK’s 2025 Carrier Strike Group deployment, Operation Highmast. On July 9, 2025,
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* Vodafone has collaborated with Manna Air Delivery in Ireland, a company with six years of experience in urban drone deliveries, to remotely pilot a delivery drone over two kilometres using Vodafone’s mobile network. Enabling Communication in the Skies Manna, which has completed approximately 200,000 deliveries, recently worked with
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A Spitfire tears over an English village, skimming over the treetops. Below, an old woman drops her basket in shock. Flight Lieutenant "Geoff" Wellum shouts, "Sorry if I frightened you, my love!", grinning widely. Nineteen years old. Barely six hours of solo time. And here he
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* Marduk Technologies took part in the recent Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) demonstration held on Gotland as part of the GUTE project. This event, operated by FMV and Swedish Armed Forces, brought together Swedish and international industry partners to test and evaluate modular solutions against drone threats in operational conditions. As
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The U.S. Air Force recently demonstrated a major leap in human-machine teaming, flying autonomous collaborative platforms (ACPs), alongside crewed fighter aircraft during a training event at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Pilots operating an F-16C Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle each controlled two XQ-58A Valkyrie aircraft in
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The U.S. Army took a step toward integrating killer drones into its battlefield tactics after it dropped live grenades from the air at a training area in Germany last week. Members of the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Tennessee Army National Guard on Wednesday became the first conventional
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Northrop Grumman Corporation’s latest MQ-4C Triton uncrewed multi-intelligence aircraft is undergoing testing with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command. The aircraft will go through calibration and other testing prior to being transferred to the Navy’s operational unit. Triton is the world's premier unmanned
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After 12 years of technical hurdles and scepticism, China has successfully tested artillery-launched drones capable of surviving the crushing load in a 155mm (6 inches) cannon shell. Five live-fire trials at a western test base confirmed the drones endured launch forces exceeding 3,000 times their own weight – comparable to
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In a first of its kind demonstration, Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have successfully conducted a mission against an airborne target using two in-flight MQ-28 Ghost Bat aircraft and a third digital aircraft, all controlled from an airborne E-7A Wedgetail. An artist’s rendering of a Royal
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The assembly of the first SIRTAP prototype - Airbus’ high-performance tactical unmanned aerial system - has concluded and the aircraft is ready to start the ground-tests campaign at the Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Getafe, Spain. The ground testing - comprising structural evaluations, main-systems components and software testing -
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* General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. completed a first-of-its-kind test involving multiple aircraft and advanced software on June 11 that included a successful simulated autonomous shoot-down. A GA-ASI-owned MQ-20 Avenger unmanned jet used the latest government reference autonomy software in an exercise involving multiple live and virtual aircraft – as well as
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* Hermeus, a venture capital-backed aerospace and defense technology company specializing in high-speed aircraft, announced the flight of its Quarterhorse Mk 1 aircraft. This milestone is a significant step in Hermeus’ development of high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft. With this flight, Hermeus demonstrated a rapid development pace, advancing Hermeus’ mission to operationalize