unmanned aerial vehicle

We’ll start with this story. Big step up. https://www.newsweek.com/japan-military-shootdown-authorization-china-drone-airspace-intrusion-2095346

A Hermes 900 drone has been shot down over Isfahan, per IDF statement. We can also see 2 types of munitions. The larger one is Mikholit, which is assumed to be related to IAI's Sledgehammer (no longer listed on their website). There is also a box of quad packed munitions labeled "Sagol...

https://www.twz.com/air/massive-chinese-stealth-flying-wing-emerges-at-secretive-base

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...

https://www.twz.com/air/chinese-flying-wing-ucav-testing-accelerating-based-on-satellite-imagery-videos

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...

At the International Defence Exhibition and Conference IDEX (IDEX 23) exposition in Abu Dhabi (UAE), the Abu Dhabi Defense and Space Manufacturing company (ADASI) unveiled a model of the Jeniah (جنيه، fairy) Unmanned Combat Aerial System (UCAS). The Jeniah project is the result of three years...

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...

https://www.ukri.org/our-work/our-main-funds/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund/future-of-mobility/future-flight-challenge/ https://www.aero-mag.com/gkn-aerospace-to-accelerate-sustainable-technologies-in-future-flight-challenge/

Design Gets Underway on DARPA’s ‘LongShot’ Drone Development of a new breed of unmanned aircraft is now underway, as three major defense companies earned contracts to start designing a future system known as “LongShot.” The LongShot program wants to create an unmanned weapons porter that can...