Otokar plans to make Alpar fully autonomous with a minimum of external assistance, as well as interfacing with other crewed and uncrewed systems on the battlefield.
Red Cat, recently selected for the US Army’s ambitious SRR programme to supply warfighters with the next-generation Black Widow sUAS, will begin production on the uncrewed platform in early 2025.
The BAE Systems Herne XLAUV has hit the water.
Extra funds will enable the branch to manage vessel acquisition programmes better.
Edge Autonomy has highlighted its advanced, silent electric propulsion and extended UAS endurance with propane fuel cells, designed to support SOF with crucial sensing and close air support capabilities.
AeroVironment has introduced the Puma VTOL kit, designed for plug-and-play integration into Puma 2 AE and Puma 3 AE small uncrewed aircraft systems.
24th June 2019
German unmanned systems manufacturer Quantum Systems and missions systems integration partner ESG jointly debuted a pair of small mock-up ISR UAVs - Vector and Scorpion …
24th June 2019
After the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) obtained a NT$80 billion ($2.54 billion) budget over a five-year period to develop and manufacture an anti-radiation …
21st June 2019
The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has confirmed to Shephard that the government has given approval for the service to prepare for the acquisition of …
21st June 2019
Experimental beyond-visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations by UAS for deliveries have been recently conducted in India for proof of concept by a consortium of companies. This …
20th June 2019
The Howler counter-UAS system has achieved Initial Operational Capability with the US Army, Raytheon announced on 18 June.Combining the capabilities of Raytheon's Ku band radio …
20th June 2019
Northwest UAV’s NW-44 Heavy Fuel Engine has logged 1500 sorties on combat and commercial small UAS, the company announced on 20 June.The purpose-built commercial off-the-shelf …
19th June 2019
A rapidly maturing unmanned VTOL industrial base is pushing its platforms into contention for naval test and procurement programmes where it was thought only fixed-wing …
19th June 2019
UMS Skeldar has developed a new training programme to enable commercial drone pilots to safely operate UAS in UK airspace.The training programme was delivered with …
18th June 2019
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions’ XQ-58A Valkyrie completed its latest successful test/demonstration flight on 11 June.According to the company, during the 71 minute flight the …
18th June 2019
Beth Maundrill, Deputy Editor, Shephard Media, speaks to Richard Harris, VP business development, Land Warfare Systems, Raytheon, about two of the company's in-service products and how both …
18th June 2019
Request Executive Summary The market for military unmanned systems will reach more than $14.5 billion annually by the end of the next decade, according to …
18th June 2019
BAE Systems has become the latest company to join the Boeing MQ-25 industry team.The company has received contracts from Boeing to supply the Vehicle Management …
18th June 2019
Safran’s Patroller UAS has entered its final phase of industrial qualification at the Istres DGA flight test center in southern France, the company announced on …
17th June 2019
The MALE unmanned market has a new addition and one that will potentially act as stiff competition to the General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian. Leonardo’s new …
14th June 2019
AeroVironment announced on 11 June that it has acquired Pulse Aerospace, a developer and supplier of small VTOL UAS. Pulse Aerospace had recently been awarded …
14th June 2019
Large category UAS sales to US allies in the Middle East have been complicated by strict guidelines contained within the international Missile Technology Control Regime …
13th June 2019
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire (TMNF) Insurance has selected Airobotics’ software and analytics platform for building inspection and disaster management services.Airobotics has integrated aerial LiDAR …
12th June 2019
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12th June 2019
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