unmanned aerial vehicle

Thought it might be useful to have a Britecloud thread given its success... Available in 3 disposable countermeasure forms...and an increasing number of recoverable or longer duration payload applications: Britecloud 55 - The original cylindrical Britecloud, compatible with Saab style...

https://syos-aerospace.com/ https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/360662783/tauranga-based-syos-wins-67-million-uk-drone-contract Piqued my interest, of course, as the company's products are heading to Ukraine in a pretty sizeable deal, no less. No mention of SYOS as of yet on this site so here...

As we know, drone air combat is currently being developed at a rapid rate, and it is a good time to speculate and form designs for drone air superiority aircraft. The main lesson from drone air combat is that air combat works with different tiers and there is no universal air superiority...

Project Musher Airbus Helicopters and its partners have conducted a full scale demonstration of a manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) system developed as part of a project funded by the European Union and code-named MUSHER. The demonstration took place in France and Italy from 30 September to 9...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1024203.pdf

I wonder when will the AI become omnipresent in the small (FPS-alike) combat drones allowing them to be more autonomous? Should that happen by mid-2025? Will we see then the hunter-killer drones that will be able to precisely distinguish between the friendly and foe vehicles or combatants?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/largest-us-police-force-drones-curb-central-park/story?id=112995925

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/sukhoi-unveils-modified-s-71-attack-uav-concepts Sukhoi has received approval from the Russian Defense Ministry to begin producing the S-71 air-launched UAV, which has undergone significant design changes based on lessons from the...

The Ministry of Defence has awarded a £60 million contract to Leonardo to design and develop a 3-tonne helicopter UAV demonstrator. One of trials will be to drop sonobouys from the UAV. First flight is due in 2025...

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/10/the-linchpin-for-army-evolution-to-multi-domain-operations-is-already-here-gray-eagle/

The whole story started with a picture posted in 2017 on social media that shows a new military drone that China has built. The unnamed device, which is said to be a torpedo bomber, is capable of skimming the surface of the sea and conducting "deadly attacks" against warships, says a post on...

https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/kelley-aerospace-unveils-supersonic-combat-drone-concept/142635.article paywalled https://www.autoevolution.com/news/supersonic-combat-drones-are-a-thing-now-thanks-to-kelley-aerospace-156837.html Looks LO. Not sure how not having vertical stabilizer...

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DARPA has selected the Silent Falcon UAV to test the feasibility of remotely charging an aircraft with a laser for its Stand-off Ubiquitous Power/Energy Replenishment - Power Beaming Demo (SUPER PBD) programme. The Silent Falcon is scheduled to begin testing in January 2019 with the aim of...

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/u-s-transportation-secretary-anthony-foxx-announces-unmanned-airc

Source: http://www.eaa.org/news/2013/2013-06-20_paris-air-show.asp http://www.flaris.pl/mobile/general.html http://twinn.pl/?idd=6&rok=2013&page=0&id=755&poz=ml0

Raytheon delivers electronic jamming capability for Gray Eagle UAS Effort will mark first time Army has capability on unmanned vehicle MARLBOROUGH, Mass., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has delivered two electronic attack payloads in support of the U.S. Army's...

. I don't know where this really belongs (if at all) anyway, out of interest, Air Britain have (?) released a new book on RAF unmanned aircraft / target drones / recon drones called "Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms" - I do NOT know if any projected models are included :-...