The Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, has issued a Lift Challenge to designers and manufacturers of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) who can design a UAS that lift up to four times its own weight. Registration is tentatively scheduled…
Sydney-based DroneShield has unveiled its DroneSentry-C2 Enterprise (C2E), a new software platform designed to provide strategic-level command and control for large-scale and distributed counter-drone operations. The company has received its first order for C2E from a European multi-site customer in a…
Stratford, Connecticut-based Lockheed Martin Sikorsky has unveiled its Nomad future family of autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UASs). The Nomad UAS is designed for reconnaissance, light attack, contested logistics and other missions, says Lockheed Martin Sikorsky. Less than a year ago…
Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems have announced a strategic partnership to develop a range of autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS). The collaboration will see their advanced research and development divisions, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and BAE Systems' FalconWorks, work together…
The US Department of Defense, with help from industry, will ramp up production and fielding of drones, or Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UASs), to maintain battlefield superiority. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the announcement, at which some 18 US-made…
Paris-based Airbus Helicopters has unveiled HTeaming, a brand new modular Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming (MUM-T) solution. HTeaming is a range of systems that allows helicopter crews to take full control of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) in flight. The first version of HTeaming…
US high-technology company Anduril displayed its Roadrunner autonomous air vehicle for the first time in Australia at Land Forces 2024. The company says Roadrunner is a radically new, recoverable, cost-effective kinetic interceptor for ground-based air defence. The modular twin-jet powered autonomous…
Defence industry journal Australian Defence Magazine reports that an unspecified Special Operations Unit of the Australian Army will put the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) first loitering munition - the Innovaero OWL - into service later this year. The magazine’s report…
Some of the capabilities and one of the systems selected for accelerated fielding as part of the first tranche of the US Replicator initiative are already in US military service. The Replicator initiative, which was launched last year by the…
Brisbane-based Insitu Pacific (IPL), a subsidiary of Boeing, and Perth-based Innovaero will collaborate on an integrated solution for a long-range strike capability using Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), providing a versatile solution in an increasingly complex battlespace. The work underway will…