The first month of 2026 has seen activity in the MALE, rotary-wing, and loitering munition UAV markets, with significant investments and commitments from Germany, Turkey, the UAE and the US. At the same time, questions over loitering munition performance in Ukraine highlight the growing scrutiny alongside rising demand.
While an estimated $37.99bn is still to be awarded across the Asia-Pacific uncrewed aerial vehicle market, the balance of potential future spending is unevenly split between various countries, with significant opportunities to be found in the collaborative combat aircraft space.
At DSEI 2025, Red Cat outlines its expansion from UAVs into uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), positioning itself as a multi-domain defence provider spanning land, sea, and air.
Cummings Aerospace presented its turbojet-powered Hellhound loitering munition at SOF Week 2025, offering a man-portable solution aligned with the US Army’s LASSO requirements.
At SOF Week 2025 in Tampa, Florida, Stu Bradin, President and CEO of the Global SOF Foundation (GSOF), underscored the increasing operational demands placed on special operations forces (SOF) as globa...
Taiwan's navy showed off its latest long-range surveillance drone Thursday as the island's outgunned armed forces push to counter China's increasingly muscular rhetoric and military …
Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) will be one of the focuses for the US Army’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) programme during 2019 with an experiment for …
Echodyne has joined the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) industry team to test and demonstrate commercial UAS operations in the next phase of the …
Yet another Chinese MALE UCAV has taken to the air, with the FL-1 successfully achieving its maiden flight from Pucheng Neifu Airport in Shaanxi Province, …
FLIR Systems has been selected by the French Defence Procurement Agency to support the French Operational Pocket Drone programme, the company announced on 18 January. …
Terra Drone Japan and Brazil’s Plimsoll UAV are to establish a joint venture (JV) called Terra Drone Brazil.Terra Drone offers UAS survey and inspection services. …
Silvus Technologies’ StreamCaster (SC4200) radios have been selected by Aerovel for its Flexrotor UAS in pursuit of the US Army Family of Tactical UAS (FTUAS) …
Microdrones has announced that it completed the acquisition of Chinese UAS developer Aircam UAV Technology in December 2018. The Aircam brand and corporate identity will …
Hensoldt has successfully carried out test flights with its collision warning radar system for UAS, the company announced on 16 January. During flight the …
Nevada’s UAS test site has been selected for the US Department of Transportation/FAA UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Pilot Project (UPP) demonstration, the Nevada Institute for …
Raytheon has received a $59.2 million contract to provide contractor logistics support for sensors on the US Department of Defense's MQ-9 Reaper UAS, the company …
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has teamed with five Belgium companies to form Team SkyGuardian Belgium, the company announced on 15 January. Shephard reported in …