Uncrewed Vehicles
Drone Defence: Fighting Back Against UAS (Studio)
Raytheon Missiles & Defense is increasingly focused on counter-UAS technologies, notably through its KuRFS radar and Coyote family of effectors.
Land Warfare
Hit to Kill UAV destroys other drones with kinetic energy
MBDA has partnered with Novadem to develop a new UAV designed to knock out hostile drones using kinetic energy as part of the Sky Warden counter-UAS system.
Air Warfare
NATO air forces need to focus on air superiority and ‘realistic’ training
At the RUSI Combat Air Conference 2023, experts and senior air force personnel openly talked about the lessons air forces learned from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. NATO air arms must focus on SEAD/DEAD missions, stockpiling ammunition and air superiority.
Uncrewed Vehicles
Survey Copter enters crowded lightweight tactical drone market
The company is hoping the Capa-X VTOL fixed-wing drone's modularity and French supply chain will help it stand out against competitors.
Air Warfare
Nexter selected to develop loitering munition for French military
Nexter is teaming up with a French UAV manufacturer to develop a fragmentation warhead for a fixed-wing loitering munition with a 40-minute endurance.
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Uncrewed Vehicles
Drone Defence: Putting C-UAS Technologies to the Test (Studio)
Raytheon Missiles & Defense has developed a set of enabling technologies and customisable systems for the counter-UAS (C-UAS) mission.
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Uncrewed Vehicles
New IMU - rugged, precise inertial sensing for the smallest platforms (sponsored)
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Land Warfare
How the Ukraine war will reshape future land forces capabilities
15th February 2023
Lessons learned from the battlefield are leading armies and industry toward focusing on innovative, multidomain, uncrewed, cyber, machine learning and AI solutions in addition to advanced logistic capacities.
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Land Warfare
IDEX 2023: Smartshooter weapon station adds less-lethal option
14th February 2023
The Smash Hopper remote weapon station can be mounted on ground vehicles or fixed mounts.
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Air Warfare
US to deploy drones for chemical and biological threat detection
14th February 2023
Teledyne FLIR's SkyRaider UAS will fly autonomous missions to replace handheld sensors used for detecting chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.
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Uncrewed Vehicles
NAVDEX 2023: Autonomous minehunter arrives in the Gulf for trials
14th February 2023
The trials will test the ability of the system to operate in the high-stress and high-heat environment of the Arabian Gulf.
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Air Warfare
Indian Army fast-tracks new UAVs and C-UAS jammers
14th February 2023
India is quickly pushing UAVs into the hands of troops, with several new tenders issued, as well as other systems to jam enemy unmanned systems.
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Defence Notes
‘Balloongate’ lays bare Chinese hypocrisy over military surveillance (Opinion)
13th February 2023
China pretends that it does not spy on others. The recent balloon saga showed up that it not only conducts surveillance of multiple countries, but that it is willing to violate their airspace to do so.
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Land Warfare
DroneShield counter-UAS systems to gain enhanced identification capabilities
13th February 2023
Integration of Pierce Aerospace's Flight Portal ID suite will give DroneShield end-users previously unavailable UAS identification capabilities and better situational awareness.
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Uncrewed Vehicles
IDEX 2023: Emirates Defense and Steadicopter team up on rotary UAS
13th February 2023
The duo are partnering to offer rotary-wing UAS into the UAE and other select markets.
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Air Warfare
Thales and Schiebel give Royal Navy new eye in the sky
10th February 2023
The Royal Navy has selected Thales and Schiebel to provide a rotary-wing UAS for its warships under the Peregrine programme.
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Air Warfare
Rheinmetall and AeroVironment team up for NATO special forces project
9th February 2023
The duo believe they are a perfect match to meet the requirement for a small special forces UAS.
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Air Warfare
How FCAS and GCAP fighter jet programmes could converge at subsystem level
8th February 2023
The European Initiative for Collaborative Air Combat will bring together nearly 40 industry partners from 11 countries to focus on interoperability for European air forces’ mission management. Discussion of FCAS seems inevitable and the project may aid in bringing FCAS and GCAP closer to each other.
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Land Warfare
European Defence Agency ploughs millions into autonomy for combat UGVs
7th February 2023
Autonomous systems will provide operational benefits across various missions, including ISR, logistics and combat.
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Land Warfare
How the US plans to regain Latin American defence markets from Russia and China
7th February 2023
Currently, 13 Latin American states operate Russian military hardware,, while 12 are equipped with Chinese weapon systems.
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Naval Warfare
US completes MK 18 UUV programme of record
6th February 2023
Since the initial production lot, over 90 MK 18 Mod 2 UUVs have been provided to the USN.
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Digital Battlespace
Reaper UAV tests new SATCOM capability
6th February 2023
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GS-ASI) has successfully flight-tested a low-Earth-orbit SATCOM capability on board an MQ-9A aircraft.
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Air Warfare
Aerosonde UAV makes first operational flight from USS Miguel Keith
3rd February 2023
The Textron UAS is also deployed on three other USN ships.
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Land Warfare
Sener to tackle uncrewed teaming for convoys under European project
3rd February 2023
Sener Aerospace and Defense will lead a multi-national European Defence Fund project to explore swarming and interoperability of UGVs with crewed ground and air vehicles.
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Uncrewed Vehicles
General Atomics offers two UAS to Ukraine for a dollar
2nd February 2023
US-built UAS like the MQ-9A Reaper would offer significantly more capability than systems like the TB2, which are already in service in Ukraine.
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Defence Helicopter
Royal Navy helicopter crews transfer control of UAS in European first
2nd February 2023
Using technology supplied by QinetiQ, two Royal Navy helicopter crews successfully exchanged control of a UAS while in flight.
