Air News & Articles

The TacView Plus by CMC Electronics is an avionics-grade, portable smart display that provides real-time situational and tactical awareness in the cockpit

The new Mobile Production System (MPS) from RapidFlight enables the manufacturing and deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from forward locations anywhere in the world, producing up to 28 Group 3 aircraft per month

GA-ASI has worked with the U.S. Air Force to develop the XQ-67A prototype aircraft, and is now delivering a production representative design based on the XQ-67A Off-Board Sensing Station

The Army has concluded Option 2 of the Future Tactical UAS Rapid Prototyping Program, and awarded Griffon Aerospace and Textron Systems with the next options

Anduril will provide production-representative Collaborative Combat Aircrafts (CCAs) as part of the United States Air Force CCA program, aiming to transform U.S. and allied defense capabilities

Set to enable testing on fan and propeller-based propulsion systems, the Wright Electric Aircraft Engine Test Cell (WEAETC) is designed to characterize the performance of megawatt-class electric aircraft propulsion systems

A Banshee Jet 80 drone communicated with a crewed aircraft using QinetiQ’s Airborne Command and Control for Swarm Interoperable Missions (ACCSIOM) technology, as part of a UK defense forces flight test

Combined with Dillon’s DAP-6 Gun Pod System, GA-ASI’s Mojave short takeoff and landing UAS expended 10,000 rounds of ammunition to destroy static targets at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona

DARPA’s ACE program is carrying out tests in which AI algorithms autonomously fly an F-16 against a human-piloted F-16 in within-visual-range combat scenarios

The P550 unmanned aerial system (UAS) from AeroVironment is purpose built for long-range reconnaissance missions and features advanced AI and autonomy, maximum payload versatility, and rapid employment capabilities

The SD/R4i TRASC BLOS solution from SD Government facilitated secure command and control data communications, defense applications, and intelligence updates, whilst aboard a C-130J-30 Hercules in a 26-hour 20-minute mission