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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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.
PDW has revealed its Attritable Multirotor First Person View drone at SOF Week 2025, offering special operations forces a low-cost, rapidly deployable platform for strike and ISR missions, inspired by battlefield lessons from Ukraine.
Teledyne FLIR is highlighting the emerging requirements for 'recoverable and re-usable' loitering munitions across the contemporary operating environment during this week’s SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida.
High-performance maritime industry player Kraken Technology Group, based in the UK, has used the SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida this week to debut its K3 Scout uncrewed surface vessel (USV) to the North American market.
Red Cat and Palladyne AI recently conducted a cross-platform collaborative flight involving three diverse heterogeneous drones.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has driven another stage of evolution for drones and the counter measures to defend against them.
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