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.
Liquid Robotics has entered into a business and technology partnership with autonomous maritime systems integrator Maritime Robotics to target the Nordic market.
The arrangement will see Maritime Robotics join Liquid Robotics’ Open Oceans Partner Program.
By joining the programme, Maritime Robotics will serve as an authorised partner to sell Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider and associated mission and integration services to customers throughout the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.
This partnership is expected to target current applications including maritime security, fish tracking and monitoring, meteorology and oceanography; and emerging commercial applications of wind farming, aquaculture and commercial flight tracking.
Flightradar24 is one of the first customers of this partnership. It is currently conducting sea trials to test ocean-based ADS-B reception with Wave Glider, with the expectation that Wave Glider has the potential to fill the current air traffic communications tracking gaps that exist over remote ocean expanses.
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.