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Air Warfare
Second Hypersonic Test Bed flight completed for US Missile Defence Agency
15th January 2025
The US Missile Defence Agency (MDA) teamed up with other Department of Defense organisations, industry and academia to conduct the test.
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Land Warfare
US Marines to receive first GDLS Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle 30mm in October
28th February 2025
The platform is currently being built and will undergo testing by the company before delivery.
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Air Warfare
Germany confirms loitering munitions contracts for its armed forces
15th April 2025
Contracts for the procurement of two platforms have been signed, and will be tested by the German armed forces.
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Defence Notes
UK Chancellor commits £2 billion to make the country a “defence industrial superpower”
26th March 2025
Rachel Reeves announced port upgrades, protected budgets for innovation and investment in novel technologies.
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Air Warfare
IDEX 2025: Jump 20-X marks the spot for AeroVironment
19th February 2025
AeroVironment showcased the Jump 20-X, an advancement of the company’s Jump 20 VTOL-capable fixed-wing UAV, at this year’s IDEX in Abu Dhabi.
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Naval Warfare
Naval artificial intelligence demonstrated in new applications in Paris
9th July 2024
The prevalence of AI-enabled solutions from startups and major defence company at this year’s Eurosatory highlighted both the potential benefits and trust-related challenges associated with its adoption.
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Air Warfare
Finland’s Summa Defence establishes drone production facility with Ukrainian partners
28th November 2024
The Finnish defence and security group will work with Ukrainian drone companies to speed up production of platforms for Ukraine and across the European Union (EU) and NATO countries.
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Land Warfare
Need to develop AI-powered red pictures for battlefield situational awareness?
10th February 2025
Leverage Systematic's SitaWare suite to fuse intelligence and share awareness of your opponent’s deployments and capabilities.
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Land Warfare
L3Harris Diamondback autonomous reconnaissance vehicle to begin testing in 2025
17th October 2024
L3Harris and Overland AI have unveiled Diamondback, a modular, autonomous reconnaissance vehicle designed for versatile ISR missions in harsh environments.
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Digital Battlespace
AUSA 2024: General Micro Systems adds four new products to the X9 Spider family
14th October 2024
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
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Naval Warfare
BAE Systems’ Herne XLAUV set to hunt for underwater intelligence
13th November 2024
The Herne is modular, highly configurable underwater autonomous platform, with potential for both ISR missions in the short term and self-determined assistance surveillance later.
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Digital Battlespace
US Space Force bets big on the use of AI to improve its capabilities
18th July 2024
The service has been conducting several acquisition and upgrading efforts involving artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve communication, data analysis and ISR systems.
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Air Warfare
Leonardo unveils new design of uncrewed Proteus demonstrator
7th January 2025
According to Leonardo, the rotorcraft will conduct its first flight by mid-2025, following on from its £60 million (US$ 75 million) contract award in July 2022.
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Digital Battlespace
Raytheon to mentor companies on development of AI programmes
30th July 2024
The contract will be performed under a mentoring programme designed to help small businesses expand their footprint in the defence industrial base which has, over the past five years, helped more than 190 small businesses.
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Digital Battlespace
Lockheed Martin to work with DARPA on AI effort
11th July 2024
During the 18-month period of the contract, Lockheed Martin will apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to create surrogate models of aircraft, sensors, electronic warfare and weapons within dynamic and operationally representative environments.
Programme Results - Defence Insight
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - rotary-wing, Military UAS - tactical
V-Bat 128 (Brazil)
Programme Background On 7 February 2022, Sheild AI announced on its website that it had signed a contract with VSK Tactical which included the 'purchase of [the] V-Bat ...
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Military UAS - mini, Military UAS - rotary-wing
Group Unmanned Isr DronE (GUIDE) [Netherlands]
Background Competition On 14 March 2025, the Netherlands announced on the EU tendering website a competition sounding the future procurement of 514 UAVs for intelligence, surveillance, ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
Skyborg [USA]
Programme Background Programme Intention Skyborg is one of three USAF Vanguard programs outlined in the Air Force Science and Technology 2030 initiative. The program intends ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
Loyal Wingman (Forecast) [Germany]
Programme Background Need Michael Schoellhorn, CEO of Airbus Defence and Space, stated in July 2024 that the "German Air Force has expressed a clear need for ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small
V-Bat 128 [Colombia]
Programme Background Procurement In August 2024, The Rio Times reported that the Columbian Navy had begun to equip its four Type FS 1500 frigates with the V-Bat ...
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OPVs
Next Generation OPVs (NGOPVs) Procurement [India]
Programme Background Timeline On 20 December 2023, the Indian Ministry of Defence signed a contract with Mazagon Dockyard Shipbuilders (MDL) to construct six Next Generation Offshore ...
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Loitering munitions
Hunter Family [UAE]
Programme Background IDEX Contract Announcement On 21 February 2023, EDGE announced that its subsidiary, HALCON, had been awarded an AED 1.1 billion ($272.29 million) contract to supply ...
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ISR/special mission
Strategic Intelligence Aircraft [France]
Programme Background In February 2018, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, announced that the strategic intelligence aircraft program CUGE Universal EW Capability began ...
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Military UAS - mini, Military UAS - rotary-wing
FPV Drones [Moldova]
Programme Background Lithuanian Drones Lithuania's Minister of National Defense, Laurynas Kasciunas, announced that Lithuian-produced thermal night vision devices and FPV drones had begun being delivered to Moldova during ...
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Loitering munitions, Military UAS - fixed-wing
Replicator 1 [US]
Programme Background Announcement & Requirement In late August 2023, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks announced the Replicator programme, an effort to galvanise an industry which ...
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Minehunters
Pulau Rengat Class MCMV Replacement [Indonesia]
Programme Background Requirements The Indonesian Navy (TNI-AI) currently operate two ageing Dutch-built Pulau Rengat-class MCMVs, which entered service in March 1988. These are now fast approaching ...
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Destroyers
Future Destroyers (13DDX) [Japan]
Programme Background Requirements At CNE 2024, Vice Admiral Shinichi Imayoshi, Director General of Naval Systems at the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), revealed that enhancing ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - tactical
Maritime UAS (MUAS) [USCG]
Background Contract Award In June 2024, the USCG awarded Shield AI an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity firm-fixed-price contract to supply UAVs for its cutter vessels. The contract, which will ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small
Air Launched Effect (ALE) [South Korea]
Programme Background KF-21 Boramae Crewed Fighter The Republic of Korea's Air Force (ROKAF) plans to acquire the KF-21 Boramae fighter, replacing F-4E Phantom II and ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
Loyal Wingan [Japan]
Programme Background Drone Appetite Released in December 2022, the Defence Building Program (DBP) called on the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) to replace some human assets with uncrewed ...
Equipment Results - Defence Insight
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Land: vehicle surveillance/target acquisition systems
TKN-AI
TKN-AI is a commander’s periscope intended for guiding a vehicle, and battlefield observation and target acquisition by day and night. It is compatible with T-62, ...
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Fixed wing aircraft engines
AI-20M
The Ivchenko AI-20 is a Soviet turboprop engine developed in the 1950s. Although the engines were originally designed for civil cargo aircraft servicing medium- and ...
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Fixed wing aircraft engines
АI-24
The Ivchenko AI-24 turboprop aircraft engine was initially designed and manufactured in the late-1950s. Manufacturing was later moved to Motor Sich, a Ukraine based manufacturer ...
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Fixed wing aircraft engines
AI-222-25
Manufactured by Ukraine’s Motor Sich, the AI-222 is a high thrust-to-weight ratio turbofan engine family developed to power Russian Air Force advanced trainers and light ...
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UAS: flight control systems
Hivemind
Developed by Shield AI, Hivemind is an ecosystem of tightly integrated AI software tools and interfaces that leverages several factors to deliver intelligent and resilient autonomy ...
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Transport
An-32
The An-32 (NATO reporting name Cline) is a light military transport aircraft that can be operated in hot temperatures (up to 50°C) and from mountain ...
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Loitering munitions
Viper 10
The Viper 10 is a rotary-wing first-person view (FPV) drone from Baltic Viper. The loitering munition quadcopter has a 4kg payload, a reinforced communication system, and ...
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Loitering munitions, Military UAS - mini, Military UAS - rotary-wing
GA-10FPV-AI
The GA-10FPV-AI is a Lithuanian FPV quadcopter drone manufactured by Granta Autonomy. The drone can carry a 3kg payload and operate in GNSS-denied environments. In September 2024, Granta Autonomy ...
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Subsystems: software
DI-Guy
DI-Guy is an AI, scenario and SDK for real-time human visualisation, simulation and artificial intelligence. DI-Guy has thousands of realistic ready-to-use characters and motions. It ...
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EO/IR systems
PT-8N
The PT-8D is an IR system from Overwatch Imaging. It is fitted with multiple HD thermal cameras and has been designed to conduct missions at dusk ...
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Subsystems: software
Cyborg
Cyborg represents the latest migration of SDS’ simulation products to more highly realistic, physics-based applications applicable for most gaming, entertainment or simulation training applications. Cyborg ...
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EO/IR systems
PT-8D
Marketed as a cost-effective solution, the PT-8D is a wide-area search and ISR payload from Overwatch Imaging. It features an RGB colour camera and a ...
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EO/IR systems
Rex Mini Mk II
The Rex Mini Mk2 is a sub-900g EO/IR sensor from Atmolab. It has a day camera with a 10x optical zoom, a high-resolution thermal camera, ...
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Naval: Combat Management Systems
INTeACT
Developed by BAE Systems, INTeACT is a next-generation combat management system for surface vessels with a dedicated software development kit (SDK). Notably, it includes AI-powered ...
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Military UAS - micro, Military UAS - rotary-wing
Helius
Unveiled in March 2025, Helius is a coaxial micro rotary-wing UAV from Ascent Aerosystems. It features field-swappable, rechargeable batteries, 4G and LTE connectivity, AI-enabled obstacle avoidance, ...