Unmanned News & Articles

New Gen. Surveillance System for Persistent Wide-Area Day/Night Monitoring

IAI’s WASP uses smart algorithms to automatically detect and identify moving targets over a wide area of interest day and night, operable on a wide range of platforms including tactical UAVs, manned aircraft and surveillance balloons

Mar 17, 2021
Long-Endurance Autonomous Surface Ship to be Designed for U.S. Navy

The L3Harris design concept will streamline NOMARS’ construction, logistics, operations and maintenance life-cycle, and will feature an advanced operating system that can make decisions without direct human interaction

Mar 16, 2021
Autonomous Vehicle Targets to be Developed for U.S. Air Force

Mountain Horse Solutions will team up with tpgroup and DCE to develop and demonstrate autonomous targets that simulate multiple vehicle types moving at speed, to provide a high level of realism for pilots during strike training

Mar 10, 2021
First Full ATOL of SKELDAR V-200 UAV on a Maritime Platform

The UMS SKELDAR V-200 UAV platform has performed a successful automatic take-off and landing (ATOL) from a ship, advancing the technology beyond assisted mode through the use of a laser altimeter and GPS combination

Mar 09, 2021
ROV Inspections Carried Out for the Royal Australian Navy

An in-water hull survey on HMAS Ballarat was carried out by Remote Imaging Solutions, utilising innovative ROVs that eliminate risk of deploying divers in the water and provide a safe option for collecting subsea data

Mar 04, 2021
German Forces Trial BriteCloud 218 Decoy from Airbus Target Drone

Leonardo’s world first BriteCloud 218 decoy was ejected from an Airbus RPATS test platform, successfully proving that the flare-sized electronic device can outwit missiles equipped with Semi-Active Radar (SAR) seeker technology

Mar 02, 2021
Man-packable Combat UAS Features Five Shot 40mm Grenade Launcher

Skyborne Technologies' Cerberus GLH provides unprecedented operational flexibility, with direct aerial fire support for mounted and dismounted operations.

Mar 02, 2021
Steadicopter Expands Military Applications for Black Eagle Unmanned Helicopters

Steadicopter has signed a number of cooperation agreements which will expand its offers by turning the company into a provider of integrative solutions to homeland security, military and law enforcement forces

Feb 23, 2021
Milrem Robotics and John Cockerill Defense to Jointly Develop Robotic Combat Systems

The two companies have committed to mutual development and technical coordination in the area of robotics; specifically, for the development of mobile lethality systems as they apply to robotic or unmanned ground vehicles.

Feb 23, 2021
Maritime Configured SkyGuardian RPA to be Demonstrated in UK

The GA-ASI aircraft will be configured to include a multi-mode maritime surface-search radar with Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging mode, and a HD, Full-Motion Video sensor equipped with optical and infrared cameras

Feb 18, 2021
Mode 5 IFF Transponder Receives DoD AIMS Certification

Sagetech Avionics has received DoD AIMS certification for its MX12B micro Mode 5 Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) transponder.

Feb 07, 2021
Advancing Defense Capability Through Strategic Collaboration Defense Advancement works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive defense capabilities forward.