Unmanned News & Articles

Remote CBRN Detection Using Autonomous Drone Swarms

Draper has won a $26M Pentagon contract for remote CBRN detection using autonomous teaming drones

Jan 15, 2024
Latest Overlord USV Launched by U.S. Navy

The Overlord program has played a critical role in jumpstarting the Navy’s experimentation with USVs and accelerating Fleet knowledge and experience in using USVs in operations

Jan 12, 2024
GA-ASI Demonstrates Autonomy Ecosystem with Live Flight Test

The UCAV flight test closed the Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, and Assess engagement chain using a mix of Live, Virtual, and Constructive entities

Jan 11, 2024
Successful Multi-Drop Live Fire Shryke Munitions from VAPOR 55 MX UAS

The AeroVironment, Corvid, and L3Harris Technologies collaboration has successfully tested the multi-drop, live fire GPS-guided Shryke munitions from the all-electric VAPOR 55 MX unmanned aircraft system (UAS)

Jan 10, 2024
Milanion’s AGEMA UGV with Kraken Unit in Ukraine

Milanion's AGEMA unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), designed to operate in hostile and harsh environments, will provide vital battlefield support for personnel operating in Ukrainian winter conditions

Jan 10, 2024
Polish Navy Adds New Multibeam Echosounder to Gavia AUV

The Seabat T20-S Multibeam Echo Sounder (MBES) delivers high-resolution bathymetric data, empowers the automated detection of pipelines, and will be instrumental in the Polish Navy's critical underwater infrastructure inspections

Jan 09, 2024
Full-Scale Fatigues Test on MQ-9B Complete

GA-ASI has completed the full-scale fatigue test, simulating the aircraft’s design service through the application of repeated structural loading on the assembled airframe

Jan 05, 2024
Manufacturing Begins for Full-Scale Active Flow Control X-Plane

Aurora Flight Sciences’ X-65 is purpose-designed to test and demonstrate the benefits of active flow control at tactically relevant scale and flight conditions

Jan 04, 2024
Boeing Delivers First Orca XLUUV to U.S. Navy

Boeing’s Orca is its new class of autonomous submarine, able to can perform long duration critical missions aiming to achieve undersea maritime dominance in changing environments

Dec 28, 2023
C-UAS Command-and-Control Solution Released by DroneShield

DroneShield releases DroneSentry-C2 Tactical, an intuitive, tablet-based, command-and-control system for hand-held C-UAS, giving field-based operators situational awareness of portable, on-the-move and fixed site systems

Dec 22, 2023
PDW’s Heavy-Lift Quadcopter Makes Blue UAS List

Inclusion in the Department of Defense (DoD) Blue unmanned aerial system (UAS) program enables a more efficient approval process for military applications of the portable, long-endurance C100 drone

Dec 20, 2023
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