AUSA 2024: Quantum-Systems targets big 2025 with UAS developments
Quantum-Systems has been upgrading its UAS family, with new versions of the Vector, Reliant and Twister drones set for release throughout 2025.
A new British company believes it has a solution to one of the major challenges to expansion of the unmanned aircraft industry - air-traffic control.
Altitude Angel, a Reading-based firm established by former staffers at IT giant Microsoft, launched its GuardianUTM (UAS Traffic Management) system at the Commercial UAV Show in London last month. The company says its service can provide separation assurance, identity and registration management, route-planning services and live tracking of small UAS.
It has also launched a smartphone app called Guardian which puts its data services into the hands of UAS operators and allows non-flying members
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Quantum-Systems has been upgrading its UAS family, with new versions of the Vector, Reliant and Twister drones set for release throughout 2025.
The service has been using a Directed Requirement (DR) approach to speed up the deployment of a Medium Range Reconnaissance capability.
AeroVironment’s portfolio will grow thanks to the eVTOL P550 aimed at battalion-level tactical forces.
The Royal Australian Air Force is advancing its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capabilities across three key programmes as it works with the likes of Boeing and Northrop Grumman to reshape Australia’s defence strategy.
Prototypes from Griffon Aerospace and Textron Systems recently passed through MOSA conformance trials and flight tests.
Funds for the second phase of this effort will be allocated in the US Department of Defense (DoD) FY2026 budget request.