The UK Ministry of Defence has announced a series of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) and Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) programs. The UK Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, Luke Pollard MP, made the announcement at the Global Air and Space…
Californian company Anduril Industries has revealed its Thunder Group 5 tiltrotor Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS). Thunder is a hybrid-powered autonomous attack rotorcraft specifically designed to multiply the combat power and increase the survivability of current and next-generation crewed attack and…
The successful launch of an Aladdin air delivery drone from a C-130J Hercules has demonstrated how emerging technologies can be rapidly integrated into Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) capability. Launched from the rear ramp of a C-130J Hercules, the Sovereign…
The US Army has demonstrated an AH-64E Apache attack helicopter employing a ‘launched effect’ for the first time, executing a launch of Anduril Industries’ Altius 700 Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) at Yuma Proving Ground during Concept Focused Warfighting Experiment 26…
California-based Skydio has announced an order exceeding $52 million for over 2,500 X10D drones, or Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), from the US Army. The order is the largest Small UAS procurement from a single manufacturer in the US Army’s history…
Florida-based L3Harris Technologies and Californian company Shield AI have successfully demonstrated a first of kind autonomous Electronic Warfare (EW) integration, combining L3Harris’ electromagnetic battle management ecosystem known as Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations (DISCO) with Shield AI’s Hivemind mission-autonomy software. The…
Yeovil-based Leonardo UK has been selected for a £1 billion ($1.88 billion) UK Ministry of Defence contract for New Medium Helicopters (NMH). The contract, for 23 AW149 helicopters, makes Yeovil the Italian company’s company’s global centre for military helicopter production and exports, which…
UK Magazine Flight International reports that Mount Manganui-based Syos Aerospace is to equip the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) with its SA2 and SA7 quadcopter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UASs). The company will also provide the NZDF with its SM300 uncrewed…
The defence industry ministers of Australia and the UK, Pat Conroy and Luke Pollard, have agreed that Australia will host British engineers and scientists at Woomera to watch ongoing trials of the MQ-28A Ghost Bat Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) and…
Sydney based defence AI start-up Breaker has raised AUS$9 million (US$6.4 million) in seed funding from US venture capital fund Bessemer Venture Partners to tackle what CEO and co-founder Matt Buffa calls the ‘operator bottleneck’ in exploiting AI on the…