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Chinese Tandem Rotor Drone Boying T1400 Makes Maiden Flight

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The Boying T1400 Tandem Rotor Unmanned Helicopter, developed by United Aircraft, successfully completed its maiden flight in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on October 30, 2025 — marking a key milestone in China’s expanding unmanned aviation capabilities. The T1400, a next-generation tandem rotor unmanned helicopter, represents a significant step forward for China’s aviation industry. With […]

NASA’s X-59 ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Jet Makes Historic 1st Flight

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The X-59 is NASA’s experimental new jet built to break the sound barrier without generating the thunderous sonic booms typically associated with supersonic flight. After taxiing out of the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) Plant 42 facility, the X-59 took off from the Palmdale Regional Airport in California today (Oct. 28) at 10:13 a.m. EDT (1413 […]

Cummings Aerospace uses 3D Printing to Rapidly Iterate Hellhound S3 Drone

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– Cummings Aerospace is using 3D printing technology in the continued development of the Hellhound S3 drone. With the use of 3D printing and modular open systems, Cummings can rapidly iterate the design of the product, harnessing test data and soldier feedback to inform each update. Cummings Aerospace recently completed a flight test demonstrating Hellhound S3’s […]

Quantum Systems Tests Drone to Intercept UAVs at Distance of 25 km

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The German company Quantum Systems is testing a new interceptor drone, the Jäger (in English – Hunter), designed to destroy enemy drones at a distance of up to 25 km. The device uses a combined electric and missile drive, according to the Hartpunkt defence and security analytical magazine. First, the drone takes off vertically on […]

Two Companies Selected to Support DIU’s C-UAS – NEXT Project

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The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has started prototyping commercial and dual-use technology solutions to provide Counter UAS solutions that defeat group 3 and above adversarial threats, ensure the sovereignty of our national airspace, and protect our personnel, equipment, and facilities at home and abroad.  Focus areas of the Counter NEXT project include providing a deeper […]

Shield AI and Airbus Complete Successful Autonomous Flight with DT25 Target Drone

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– Shield AI, the deep-tech company building state-of-the-art autonomy software products and aircraft, has announced the completion of a successful autonomous flight demonstration in collaboration with Airbus Defence and Space, through the integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind software with Airbus’s DT25 target drone.​ ​ The flight, conducted in Andøya, Norway, marks a key milestone in […]

L3Harris and Shield AI Demonstrate AI-Powered System to Defeat Unmanned Threats

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– L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI successfully demonstrated an artificial intelligence-enabled drone detection system during the Department of War’s recent Technology Readiness Experimentation event. L3Harris and Shield AI Demonstrate AI-Powered System to Defeat Unmanned ThreatsThis test event showed the system can more quickly detect hostile drones at longer ranges than current systems, even if the […]

Defense Innovation Unit and Marines Select FPV Platforms for Project G.I. Phase One

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After eight days of flight demonstrations at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, USMC evaluators selected First Person View (FPV) platforms from Auterion, ModalAI, Neros, and Nokturnal – as well as one component from Kraken Kinetics – to move from the FPV tactical kinetic effects Phase of Project G.I. These selections will now undergo verification for […]

NATO Tests Unmanned Airship as Maritime Surveillance Platform

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An unmanned hydrogen-powered autonomous surveillance airship the size of a small bus has been floating over Portuguese waters, collecting imagery of ships and other objects. The goal of these test flights is to see if this airship can provide NATO with situational awareness of the maritime domain. The flights are part of the alliance’s annual […]

BAE Systems, QinetiQ Test Manned-Unmanned Teaming with Typhoon

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– BAE Systems and QinetiQ have successfully completed synthetic trials to show how unmanned aircraft can operate alongside existing manned aircraft like Typhoon to provide a more cost-effective and flexible concentration of combat air power. The exercise, conducted at BAE Systems Warton site in Lancashire and attended by supportive representatives from the Ministry of Defence […]