All Military UAVs news – Page 42
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Ilyushin partners with Russian company on large transport UAV
Ilyushin has teamed up with Russian unmanned air system developer Kronstadt Group to develop a large autonomous aircraft that could deliver cargo to remote areas.
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USMC reveals new details of MUX acquisition plan
A new fleet of unmanned, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that could be acquired in two years and fielded by 2025 by the US Marine Corps will be tasked and equipped for a wide range of combat, surveillance and support missions.
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NewsGeneral Atomics completes first test of PW815 engine for MQ-25 bid
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems successfully tested Pratt & Whitney’s PW815 turbofan engine on an inlet and exhaust mock-up for its proposed MQ-25 unmanned air vehicle on 5 April.
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NewsCormorant UAV aces medical evacuation trial
Israeli company Tactical Robotics has demonstrated its Cormorant vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle's capability to carry out medical evacuation duties.
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Marine Corps orders Switchblade drones from AeroVironment
Usage of AeroVironment’s explosive-tipped drone, the Switchblade, is growing as the US Marine Corps ordered its first of the missile-like weapon in April 2018.
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Israeli F-35Is make combat debut with two air strikes
Israeli Air Force F-35I Adirs have participated in two air strikes in the Middle East, making country’s recently-deployed, Lockheed Martin-made fighters the first in the global fleet to see combat, says IAF commander Maj Gen Amikam Norkin.
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Uber sees air routes making eVTOL safer than helicopters
Uber believes established air routes above cities will make electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft operations safer than the way conventional helicopters are flown today.
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US Army’s Gray Eagle modernisation effort grows with focus on reliability
The US Army’s effort to modernise its MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV fleet has grown to encompass almost all of the aircraft’s systems with a special focused given to building in redundancy and improving reliability.
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US Coast Guard requests long-endurance UAV to counter drug and migrant smuggling
The US Coast Guard issued a request for demonstrations of long-range, ultra-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in US coastal transit zones that are highly trafficked by illegal drug and migrant smugglers.
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Uber reveals new concept and partners for air taxi network
Uber further outlined its vision for a network of aerial taxis at its second annual Elevate conference in Los Angeles on 8 May, including the unveiling of several new eVTOL aircraft concepts as well as partnerships with NASA and the US Army Research Lab.
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Karem Aircraft unveils eVTOL concept aircraft
Karem Aircraft unveiled a tilt rotor eVTOL concept aircraft at the Uber Elevate conference in Los Angeles on 8 May.
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Pipistrel unveils blended-wing body eVTOL
Pipistrel teased a picture of an eVTOL aircraft concept at the Uber Elevate conference in Los Angeles on 8 May.
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Embraer reveals eVTOL concept
Embraer unveiled its first eVTOL aircraft concept at the Uber Elevate conference in Los Angeles on 8 May.
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BAE becomes partner in Prismatic's UAV programme
BAE Systems will invest in UK technology firm Prismatic's development of a solar-powered high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned air vehicle.
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NewsInsitu launches ScanEagle3 without ITAR restrictions
Boeing-owned Insitu used the annual AUVSI gathering to unveil its ScanEagle3 unmanned air vehicle.
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AeroVironment partners with FlightWave to add VTOL to future UAVs
AeroVironment has signed an agreement with FlightWave to add vertical take-off and landing capabilities to its future unmanned aircraft, the company announced on 1 May.
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Airbus Aerial signs DroneBase to provide on-demand low-altitude imagery
Airbus Aerial has signed an agreement with drone services marketplace DroneBase to provide low-altitude aerial imagery on demand.
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USAF teaching dogfighting to small autonomous drones
The US Air Force Academy is attempting to teach autonomous unmanned air vehicles when to perform combat manoeuvres used by fighter pilots to counter potential swarms of adversarial UAVs.
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Textron unveils thrust-vectoring X5-55 VTOL drone
Textron Systems unveiled its X5-55 vertical take-off and landing engineering testbed at the AUVSI Xponential show in Denver, Colorado, on 1 May.
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Bell to demonstrate Autonomous POD Transport to US military
Bell Helicopter plans to demonstrate its Autonomous POD Transport, a tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle, to several branches of the US military, including the Marine Corps, in the "late summer or early fall".