Insitu is exploring the potential to conduct commercial beyond line of site (BLoS) operations in the US, following the successful flights last year with a ScanEagle in unsegregated airspace.
The flights took place as part of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Pathfinder initiative and were funded jointly with the BNSF railway company, Burlington Northern Santa Fe. The aircraft was flown to inspect a remote section of BNSF track in Texas and New Mexico.
The flights, totalling some 14.4 hours over several days, took place in October 2015, but details are only emerging a year on, with the airframe involved
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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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