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 need to introduce effective regulations to better manage the civil unmanned industry was the main topic of conversation on the first day of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s UAS conference in London.
A difference emerged however as to whether industry or the legislators should concede the ground in this endeavour, with both sides putting forward cases for the other to create an environment that would allow the sector to reach its full potential.
Properly regulated, the sector could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars by 2025.
Comparisons were made between manned and unmanned aviation, with regulators noting that it
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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.