Royal Navy uncrewed aircraft trial marks European first
UK flight test sees largest unmanned aircraft take off from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier.
If there is one word that can describe the commercial drone market over the last few years, it is 'hyped'.
Drones – or unmanned aerial vehicles – have been a boom industry, with billions of dollars' worth of funding being injected into nascent projects or plucky start-ups. Venture capitalists, for one, and tech geeks have bought into this hype wholeheartedly.
The technology has been billed as the answer to so many different industrial, societal and economic challenges that it is genuinely difficult to keep track of them all. UAVs are now offered not just for hobbyists but for infrastructure inspection,
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UK flight test sees largest unmanned aircraft take off from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier.
CATIC have displayed its new AR-2000 drone at Dubai Airshow 2023, emphasising ship-based capabilities with PLA already purchasing.
Australia has ordered four Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton UAS which can operate as an uncrewed maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) alongside the country’s in-service Boeing P-8A MPA fleet.
The Khronos tethered UAS has been designed to be simple to use and has drawn on Elistair’s experience with hundreds of existing customers.
The use of long-duration Uncrewed Surface Vehicles for maritime surveillance and monitoring has become part of the fleet inventory as navies try to reduce the level of effort required to gather intelligence on areas of interest.
A growing number of uncrewed systems have been on show at Sydney's Indo-Pacific Maritime exhibition with a select few currently being trialled to see if they can enhance the Royal Australian Navy's surveillance levels.