Unmanned Systems
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Navy/USMCBlackSea Unveils its Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel Bid For U.S. Navy
BlackSea Technologies on Monday unveiled its bid for the latest incarnation of the Navy’s Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV), the Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC), based around its GARC Replicator […]
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Air ForceAnduril Plans First Collaborative Combat Aircraft Flight In Semi-Autonomous Mode
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—First flight of Anduril Industries’ entry into the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program is “within spitting distance” of happening and will be semi-autonomous from taxi, to […]
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Air ForceNew 800- to 1,500-Pound Thrust Class Engines for Munitions and CCA under Development by Pratt & Whitney
RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney said on Monday that it is developing a new 500 to 1,800 pounds of thrust class of engines to power munitions and U.S. Air Force […]
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Air ForceSkunk Works Says Vectis May Be Candidate for USAF CCA Increment 2
Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Skunk Works unit said that its Vectis drone under development for flight in the next two years will likely fit the needs of Increment 2 of the […]
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Unmanned SystemsDrone Assessors Selected To Help DIU Speed Inclusion On Blue UAS List
In an effort to accelerate expansion of a list of small drones approved for use across the Defense Department, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has selected six third-parties to help […]
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Air ForceUSAF 621st Contingency Response Wing Lays Out Need for C-UAS
Air Mobility Command’s (AMC) 621st Contingency Response Wing (CRW) out of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. and Travis AFB, Calif., wants small handheld units to counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS). “In […]
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Unmanned SystemsDIU, Marine Corps Select FPV Drones, Related Kinetics For Blue UAS Review
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Thursday said it and the Marine Corps have selected four First Person View (FPV) drones and a related munition to begin evaluations for inclusion […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Tests New Autonomous Launching And Recovery Of Small Boats, USVs
The Navy recently announced it has started testing a promising technology from Israel’s Sealartec to autonomously launch and recover small boats via a technology testing platform vessel. It tested the […]
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InternationalKratos Adapting MQM-178 Firejet for Use by Taiwan
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] and Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIS) are collaborating on the Mighty Hornet IV attack drone, “a revolutionary transformation of the […]
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Unmanned SystemsState Department Will Review UAS Export Requests As It Does Manned Fighters
The State Department on Monday evening said that it has updated U.S. export policy so that review of requests to sell unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for military use on international […]