MilitaryDIU Awards $159 Million For Hermeus To Demonstrate High-Mach Flight And Payload Release Hermeus on May 28 said it has received a $159 million contract modification from the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to demonstrate high-Mach flight and high-speed payload carry and release to aid…
MilitaryLow Radar Cross Section Of MQ-28 Ghost Bat Validated, Boeing Says Boeing said on June 1 that it has validated the low Radar Cross Section (RCS) of the company’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone. “The MQ-28’s RCS reduces the range that enemy radars can…
AI & AutonomyHermeus’ Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 Aircraft Goes Supersonic In First For Unmanned Flight Less than three months after the first flight of the Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 unmanned aircraft, Hermeus on Tuesday said the jet-powered aircraft achieved supersonic speeds in its second flight, a first in aviation history.…
MilitaryRedwire Says Awarded Large Drone Contract From NATO Ally Redwire Corp. on Tuesday said it received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract from a NATO ally to deliver the company’s Penguin Mk3 unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Redwire said the contract is valued in…
MilitaryMQ-25 Okayed For Production With Milestone C Approval The Navy on May 19 announced the Boeing MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned tanker aircraft officially received its Milestone C approval, setting it up for Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) later this year. The service…
MilitaryMarines Tap Sikorsky, Robinson’s Unmanned R66 For Medium Resupply Drone Development Effort The Marine Corps has selected Sikorsky and Robinson Helicopter’s R66 Turbinetruck for the second increment of the Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle–Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) development program, the companies said on April 27. Sikorsky said it…
MilitaryNavy’s MQ-25A Unmanned Tanker Finishes First Test Flight The first Boeing MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned tanker aircraft conducted its first flight test on April 25, a year later than previously planned, the Navy and Boeing revealed on April 27. The test…
AI & AutonomyAir Combat Command’s EOU Tests Anduril’s YFQ-44A Last week, the Air Force’s Experimental Operations Unit (EOU) at Nellis AFB, Nev., tested an Anduril Industries YFQ-44A Fury prototype Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), which flew from a company site in southern California to…
MilitaryArmy’s Work With H-60Mx Black Hawk To Inform Bringing Autonomy To MV-75 FLRAA NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Army and Sikorsky officials said April 16 the service’s new Black Hawk outfitted to fly autonomously is serving as a testbed for bringing autonomy capability to the future MV-75 Cheyenne II…
AI & AutonomyArmy’s SkyFoundry Plan To Build Own Cheap Drones Has ‘Evolved,’ Official Notes Commercial Involvement The Army’s SkyFoundry initiative to manufacture thousands of its own cheap drones on a monthly basis has recently “evolved,” with an official telling sister publication Defense Daily the program is “100 percent a…
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