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TSA Launches New Era of Drone Watch at San Francisco International

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For the first time in history, TSA used an agency-owned, small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) to test the threat of drones over San Francisco International Airport (SFO). This achievement was thanks to the efforts of TSA’s Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS) UAS Assessments Unit, which was established to oversee the agency’s role in protecting […]

Wingcopter, ITOCHU and ANA Test Drone-Based Transport of Research Blood in Japan

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– ITOCHU Corporation, Wingcopter‘s partner in Japan, haa tested the transport of research blood1 using Wingcopter’s delivery drone in a research project. Together with ANA Holdings and the local blood center of the Japanese Red Cross, research blood was flown between the cities of Urasoe and Nago in Okinawa Prefecture. The project2 aims to investigate […]

Schiebel CAMCOPTER S-100 Successfully Demonstrates New Radar Capability In Canada

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– Schiebel, in collaboration with MDA Space, has successfully demonstrated IMSAR’s NSP Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) with Ground and Maritime Moving Target Indication (GMTI and MMTI) capabilities during a one-week intensive trial at the Foremost UAS Test Range in Western Canada. The successful integration of the IMSAR NSP radar system to the CAMCOPTER S-100 was […]

Kratos XQ-58A Demonstrates Collaborative EW and Kill Chain Closure at Emerald Flag 2024

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– Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced the successful performance of a recent series of flight tests of the United States Marine Corps’ XQ-58A Valkyrie, manufactured by Kratos. These flights and exercises were conducted jointly earlier this year by Kratos, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Autodyne, the United States Marine Corps (USMC), the United States […]

Droniq and Fraunhofer IFAM Complete 180 Km BVLOS Flight in Civil Airspace Over North Sea

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As part of a project collaboration, Fraunhofer IFAM and Droniq GmbH successfully carried out a 180-kilometer drone flight from the Offshore Drone Campus Cuxhaven (ODCC) to Helgoland and back. For the first time, the safe integration of unmanned BVLOS flights over the sea was achieved in compliance with civil regulations and with the involvement of […]

Leonardo’s Falco Xplorer Completes Successful EUDAAS Demonstration

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The European Detect and Avoid System (EUDAAS) demonstrator, integrated into Leonardo’s Falco Xplorer, completed its final test flight at Trapani airport, validating advanced sensors, digital flight controls and smart technologies for safe integration of large remotely piloted aircraft into European air traffic alongside other crewed and uncrewed aircraft. Leonardo announced the successful completion of a […]

Bayraktar TB3 UAV Successfully Continues Ship Tests

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The Bayraktar TB3 UCAV, which made aviation history as the first unmanned aerial vehicle to take off and land on a short-deck vessel, is successfully continuing its shipboard tests. During its second flight test conducted on November 26th. aboard TCG Anadolu, cruising off the coast of Çanakkale, Bayraktar TB3 performed two more successful takeoffs and […]

DIU Leads Blue UAS Refresh Challenge to Test, Validate UAS Platforms and Capabilities for DoD

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The Defense Innovation Unit recently hosted the first of what is intended to be an annual Blue UAS Refresh event at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California. A team of more than 40 military drone end-users representing each service and several major program offices evaluated more than 35 uncrewed aerial systems […]

Skunk Works Demonstrates Airborne Battle Management of AI-Controlled Aircraft

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– Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, in partnership with Lockheed Martin’s Demonstrations and Prototypes organization and the University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL), showcased a crewed-uncrewed teaming mission where an airborne battle manager issued real-time commands to AI-controlled aircraft through a touchscreen pilot vehicle interface (PVI). In a series of flight tests, the Skunk Works […]

Gray Eagle STOL Makes Historic First Flight from Ship to Land

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– General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. logged another aviation milestone on Nov. 12, 2024, when its Gray Eagle STOL aircraft took off from a South Korean warship and landed at a ground base – the first-ever such mission for an aircraft of this type. Working with our GA-ASI’s in-country partner, Hanwha Aerospace, Gray Eagle STOL […]