A definition study phase for the future European medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned air vehicle development has begun, paving the way for an operational sovereign system to enter use by 2025.

The US Marine Corps experimented with its own expeditionary UAV during a test this July, when General Atomics equipped an MQ-9 Reaper with its network centric communications pod (NCCP) to enable communications between the UAS and Marine ground forces.

France s Wijet has acquired fellow European operator Blink to become the largest very light jet-equipped air taxi company in the world, with a fleet of 15 Cessna Citation Mustangs.