Baykar’s Akıncı UCAV completes live firing trials over the Black Sea
The Turkish company’s advanced unmanned combat aerial vehicle demonstrated its capabilities during successful live firing trials.
The questions of how the rapidly growing UAV market should be regulated and who is responsible for the enforcement of such regulations remain primary issues of concern within the industry.
At the Commercial UAV Show, representatives from across the industry voiced their frustrations and concerns to Shephard that UK regulations were going unenforced, resulting in licensed drone operators being undermined by amateur users.
The lack of enforcement and apparent lack of engagement on the part of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) with industry is a significant security and safety concern and is now driving commercial UAV solution providers and drone
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The Turkish company’s advanced unmanned combat aerial vehicle demonstrated its capabilities during successful live firing trials.
Iran has continued to invest heavily in its drone-building capacity, supplying Russia and Iranian proxies throughout the Middle East, leading defence experts in Israel to call for more defensive solutions be developed to deter the threat from UAVs.
Brazil's Emgepron and Tidewise have partnered to construct the Suppressor unmanned surface vessel by 2025 amid potential interest from the Brazilian Navy.
The US Department of Defence has teamed up with Anduril Industries to develop advanced AI-driven long-range uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs), countering China’s escalating UUV advancements.
SpearUAV’s Viper family of loitering munitions has been developed to provide effects across multiple domains.
The UK has outlined a strategy on how it will spend billions of dollars on uncrewed systems over the next decade as it transitions to a more mixed force of crewed and uncrewed platforms.