North Korea Replicates US RQ-4 Global Hawk

North Korea has once again demonstrated its ambitions to bolster its strategic surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with the public unveiling of the , a High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) drone that bears an unmistakable resemblance to the American RQ-4 Global Hawk. First presented at the Weapons and Equipment Exhibition 2023 in Pyongyang, the Saetbyol-4 immediately ignited global […]

US Government Approves Sale of SeaGuardian UAS to Qatar

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Qatar of the MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.96 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale on March 26. The Government of […]

Airbus Partners with Drone Forge to Market Flexrotor in Asia Pacific

Australian aerospace start-up Drone Forge and Airbus have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to collaborate on the deployment and operational integration of the Flexrotor unmanned aerial system. This agreement, which includes the acquisition of Flexrotor systems, marks a critical step towards transforming uncrewed aviation with game-changing solutions and technologies tailored for tactical operations. “This […]

Fractal Antenna Systems’ DRONE BLASTR Downs Drones by Sound Waves

– Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. has unveiled Acoustic Resonance Mitigation (ARM), a pioneering technology that disables drones using directed acoustic energy. ARM works by emitting sonic, ultrasonic, and/or subsonic waves at a drone, thereby inducing vibrations and /or Prandtl layer instability that will lead to flight failure. Propeller blades are especially vulnerable to ARM’s power, […]

US Navy Set to Deploy Coyote and Roadrunner Land-Based Anti-Drone Systems at Sea

The U.S. Navy says it is working to reduce the growing costs of fighting Houthi drones launched from Yemen by placing two new experimental systems on destroyers that are slated to deploy later this summer. “We’re going to be deploying the Ford strike group with two additional missile systems on our destroyers — the Roadrunner […]