Month November 2023

Airbus US Space & Defense Launches UAS Business Line

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense has unveiled a new business line focused on helping the Department of Defense meet its demand for uncrewed aircraft systems to detect and counter threats. Nearly 20 years ago Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, Director of the…

Latest Russian Drones Fire Lethal Slugs of Molten Metal

Russia’s newest Lancet explosive drones apparently fire slugs of molten metal that can shoot right past the add-on armour Ukrainian troops count on to protect their vehicles from drone attacks. If there’s any good news for the Ukrainians in the…

EHang: Hollow Order Book and Fake Sales

Hindenburg Research has just released a damning Report that states, in pertinent part, that “92+% of EHang’s claimed 1,300+ unit pre order book is based on ‘dead’ or ‘abandoned’ deals, failed partnerships, and newly-formed customer entities with no no discernible…

B-21 Bomber Takes First Flight

The first B-21 Raider bomber took off from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, just after dawn on Nov. 10, in a flight that concluded at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif, after 90 minutes, according to local observers. “The B-21…

Turkish UGV Test-Fires Kamikaze Drones

Turkey’s Havelsan Barkan 2 UGV demonstrated launching reconnaissance, surveillance, and kamikaze munitions on October 12. The first successful launch with BARKAN took place on January 8, 2023, and ROKETSAN’s guided mini missile Mete was fired from a land vehicle for…