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US Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scouts Retire Just Two Years After Entering Operational Service

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US Navy (USN) budget documents reveal that the service plans to retire the newest variant of an unmanned helicopter it spent more than a decade and nearly $1.5 billion developing. The Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout was to perform a range of surface warfare, airborne mine countermeasures, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions from […]

Four Companies Selected to Support the US Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit’s Enterprise Test Vehicle Project

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The Air Force Armament Directorate (AFLCMC/EB) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) have partnered to identify and prototype commercial and dual-use technology solutions for an enterprise test vehicle that demonstrates modularity for subsystem upgrade testing. The technology will also serve as a foundation for affordable high-rate production. Initial flight demonstrations will occur within seven months […]

Titra to Integrate Airbus’ DeckFinder Airbus on ALPiN Drone for Naval Missions

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Turkish drone-maker Titra is teaming with Airbus to modify the ALPiN unmanned helicopter so it can operate from naval platforms as well as take off and land autonomously, the former announced last week. The unmanned helicopter was first used during Turkish operations in the northern region of Iraq, Titra’s chief executive Abdulkadir Sener told reporters […]

Ukraine Deploys British Windracers ULTRA Cargo Drones for Military Operations

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Ukraine is operating the UK-developed Windracers Uncrewed Low-cost Transport (ULTRA) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Janes has learnt. ULTRA is a tactical UAV designed to support resupply. Speaking to Janes on 4 April, Simon Muderack, the CEO of Windracers and Distributed Avionics, revealed that its UAV has been conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and supporting […]

Feloni Aero Introduces Weaponized and Counter Drone UAVs

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Feloni Aero, an innovator in unmanned aerial vehicle technology, has announced the launch of its latest line of weaponized drones aimed at bolstering defense capabilities in Ukraine. With the recent passage of the spending bill by the United States government, Feloni Aero stands poised to provide advanced solutions to enhance Ukraine’s security infrastructure. The United […]

Japan Spots China’s Wing Loong-10 for First Time Over Waters North of Okinawa

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Japanese fighter jets have scrambled to intercept a Chinese surveillance and strike drone seen operating for the first time north of Okinawa. A Wing Loong-10 was spotted Monday over the East China Sea by members of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, according to a statement that day from the country’s Ministry of Defense. The drone […]

Aurora’s Latest X-Plane Design Speeds Ahead

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Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, recently completed conceptual design review for a game-changing, high-speed, vertical lift X-plane and has been selected to continue development of a preliminary design review. The aircraft is being developed for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program called Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT), which “aims to design, […]

US Navy Plans MQ-4C Deployment on Okinawa

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The US Navy is preparing to deploy two Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Tritons at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. This is the first known deployment of this high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on Okinawa. A US Navy spokesperson confirmed to Janes on 20 May that the “US Pacific Fleet plans to temporarily deploy MQ-4C […]