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.
Insitu has received a contract from the US Department of Interior (DOI) to provide fire suppression services across the continental US and Alaska using its ScanEagle UAS, the company announced on 20 June.
The contract will see company provide support for unmanned aerial operations including fire suppression, SAR, emergency management and other operations on a 'call when needed' basis.
Insitu’s ScanEagle, equipped with infrared and electro-optical cameras, sensors and a customised TK-5 Firewatch smart tactical mapping payload, provides near real-time fire line maps and wide-area, high-resolution imagery intelligence to assist with fire suppression planning.
The UAS is able to fly the gaps, operating in dense smoke and darkness, when it is difficult for manned aircraft to fly due to hazardous flying conditions for pilots.
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.