Unmanned Systems

Australia on Monday said that it demonstrated pairing two MQ-28A Ghost Bat drones controlled from an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft. The Australian Ministry of Defense explained that during the test out […]

Propulsion developer and manufacturer Ursa Major on Monday said it has received a $32.9 million contact from Stratolaunch to provide 16 upgraded Hadley engines that the aerospace vehicle testing company […]

The Navy plans to merge the programs for the Large and Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (LUSV and MUSV) into a single autonomous surface craft program while delays to the Orca […]

For the second time in less than a year, General Dynamics’ [GD] Information Technologies division and Amazon Web Services [AMZN] demonstrated an integrated artificial intelligence and cloud computing solution to […]

Redwire Corp. [RDW] last Friday completed its $925 million acquisition of Edge Autonomy, taking the space technology company into the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) business. Redwire announced the deal in […]

Ever since the successful use of the V-BAT aircraft in spotting and targeting a Russian air defense system last August in support of Ukrainian forces, the Shield AI-developed unmanned system […]

On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy re-iterated his call for the provision of U.S. air defense systems to aid his country in repelling Russian kamikaze drone attacks, the most numerous […]

President Trump last Friday directed the Defense Department to conduct a review of programs that could be replaced by drones. Within 90 days, the service secretaries are required to report […]

The Coast Guard has some, but not enough, capacity for countering drone threats to the homeland from maritime approaches, the acting commandant of the service said last week. The Coast […]

Once again, the most recent demonstration by the Defense Department office charged with addressing threats from small drones, showed that no single solution will suffice in most cases, and a […]