Unmanned News & Articles

US Navy Orders Additional Underwater ROVs for EOD Missions

The US Navy will equip EOD units with VideoRay’s Mission Specialist Defender as the base platform for the MK20 Defender ROV program, which uses the technology provided by these ROVs to locate and neutralize underwater mines

May 03, 2023
UK Ministry of Defence Orders Saab Giraffe 1X Radars

Giraffe 1X is a lightweight, multi-mission, 3D surveillance radar for simultaneous air and surface surveillance that provides quality air defense target data, drone (C-UAS) detection and Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) sense and warn within a single solution

May 02, 2023
New Partnership to Develop Robotic Systems for French Army

Nexter and SERA Ingénierie will work together to develop sovereign and state-of-the-art military robotics solutions for the French defense forces

Apr 28, 2023
Inmarsat Unveils New LAISR Ultra-Lightweight User Terminal for ISR Missions

The L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Ultra-Lightweight (LAISR ULW) terminal provides high data rate throughput to support BLOS communications, while further reducing the total terminal size, weight and power (SWaP)

Apr 28, 2023
Safran Wheels & Brakes Selected for Eurodrone 

Safran Landing Systems will design, develop, qualify and produce the work package including wheels, brakes and hydro-mechanical equipment, and supply the braking control module, for the Eurodrone reconnaissance drone

Apr 26, 2023
BlueSpace.ai Awarded Contract to Enhance Perception Sensing of US Army UGVs

BlueSpace will leverage its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy to expand the perception sensing capabilities for the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for off-road applications

Apr 24, 2023
US Army Awards Raytheon $237 Million Counter-UAS Contract

The systems will play an important part of the US Army's Low, slow, small-unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System (LIDS), with Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensors (KuRFS) providing advanced 360-degree threat detection, and Coyote low-cost effectors defeating drones

Apr 21, 2023
First UK Demonstration Shows Capabilities of Bayonet Amphibious Crawlers 

Deployable from land or water, the Bayonet crawlers are designed to transit along the ocean floor in depths of up to 100 meters as well as on land for a range of military and commercial applications

Apr 21, 2023
SoarTech Selected as Finalist in US Army’s xTechSearch 7 Competition

SoarTech is in the final round of the xTechSearch 7 competition with its autonomous platforms entry, Centralized Control of Commercial Drones (C3D), which automates the logistics and control of small UAS

Apr 20, 2023
US Marine Corps Contract Leidos for Uncrewed Aerial Resupply System

Leidos will develop, deliver and demonstrate an autonomous medium unmanned logistics system - air (MULS-A) prototype, with a view to it performing a logistics distribution mission at the tactical edge of the battlefield

Apr 20, 2023
SURVICE-Malloy Awarded US Navy Contract to Produce Unmanned TRV Aircraft

The TRV will provide essential resupply to warfighters in contested environments, reducing the number of troops put in harm's way while assuring logistics resupply to the forward deployed warfighter

Apr 19, 2023
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