UAS

By Ben Goldstein
With over 3,000 aircraft delivered since 1984, the Cessna Caravan is a workhorse of global aviation—known not only for its ubiquity, but also its utility.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
A team of government and industry partners led by Wisk Aero has announced the successful completion of a series of unmanned flight trials in New Zealand.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The payloads should be able to find, fix and track maritime ships, with weapons-level targeting accuracy, a request for information released on Dec. 5 says.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The need to counter faster, more powerful drones at a large scale is becoming the “problem of our time,” a top Defense Department weapons buyer says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Cambium, a California startup focusing on advanced materials and machine learning for aerospace and defense products, has landed $19 million in venture capital.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The first flight of Sirtap—which Airbus says will have an endurance of 20 hr. and be certified to fly in segregated airspace—is planned for 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
As part of DARPA's Sprint program, Bell is continuing development on a design concept known as Sea-based Logistics Unmanned Rearm/Refuel Platform.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Steve Trimble
The award by the innovation arm of the Air Force Research Laboratory supports testing of the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System and a hydrogen fuel cell.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Chen Chuanren
The unnamed tandem flying-wing UAS was unveiled at the China Hi-Tech Fair, where it was flying with four electric-powered motors, two on each wing.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. will get a chance next year to prove the Predator is worthy of a long-term contract from the U.S. Navy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Chachaty
Thales and Schiebel have teamed to develop a global market approach to promote the Austrian developed rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system S-100 Camcopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany looks set to increase its purchase of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Nov. 15 test served two purposes—as a carrier-proving flight for the Mojave and as a demonstration of the largest crewless aircraft on a Royal Navy ship.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Chen Chuanren
Northrop Grumman says the Triton's flight evaluated the performance of the engine, flight controls, fuel system and basic aircraft handling.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The German Parliament’s budget committee on Nov. 8 approved a change in the contract for the operation of the UAS.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The deal with RV Connex was made at the Defense & Security 2023 exhibition here in Bangkok, where EDGE is participating for the first time.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The platform debuted at the Defense & Security 2023 exhibition in Bangkok.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The six Survice-Malloy TRV-150C octorotors are now operational in the Third Littoral Logistics Battalion at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Swiss startup Dufour Aerospace has delivered an Aero2 X2.2 demo to U.S. drone operator Spright for flight testing of the electric tiltwing UAS in Oregon.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Kratos briefings since 2018 have included references to a secret internal program named Thanatos, but the company had never before shown the concept.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Helen Chachaty
The flight test campaign took place Oct. 2-9 on board the Provence frigate off the Mediterranean coast.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Epirus' Leonidas Indirect Fire Protection Capability High-Power Microwave is part of a series of new acquisition programs under RCCTO focusing on small UAS.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Shield AI, the startup behind the Hivemind pilot program that features AI software, said on Oct. 31 it raised $200 million in Series F funding.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The British Antarctic Survey is to test the Windracers Ultra UAS in the Antarctic summer to explore if autonomous systems can be used to collect science data.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Aquark Technologies is claiming a world-first by flying the cold atom system on the uncrewed aircraft with MBDA, Innovate UK and Wright Airborne Computing.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare