Paris, France (SPX) Jun 22, 2022 –
The ability to task unmanned systems from a manned aircraft is an important force multiplier in Airbus’ vision for future air power, with a wide range of applications extending to combat scenarios and beyond.
As a pioneer in the realm of Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T), Airbus
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Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide To Technology Ethics, Stephanie Hare, London Publishing Partnership, Feb 2022 The Political Philosophy of AI: Mark Coeckelbergh, Polity Press, Feb 2022 New technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) raise formidable political and ethical challenges, and these two books each provide a different kind
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Project Mosquito, the future uncrewed Combat Aircraft Technology Demonstration being explored by the Royal Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO), will not proceed beyond the design phase. The decision, taken by mutual agreement with industry partners, follows a detailed review of the technical demonstrator and the broader Lightweight Affordable Novel
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Drone Wars UK’s new briefing, published in collaboration with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), looks at the UK’s emerging military space programme and considers the governance, environmental, and ethical issues involved. Space based operations affect many aspects of modern life and commerce. The global economy relies heavily on
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Loitering munitions are now hitting the headlines in the media as a result of their use in the Ukraine war. Vivid descriptions of ‘kamikaze drones’ and ‘suicide drones’ outline the way in which these weapons operate: they are able to find targets and fly towards them before crashing into
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Turkish drone company Baykar said Thursday that it would donate a Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) to Lithuania so that the funds its citizens had raised to buy one for Ukraine can be transferred for humanitarian aid. Hundreds of people chipped in to buy the advanced drone for
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Lithuania is considering buying Turkish-made Bayraktar combat drones, Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas has said. “The acquisition of combat drones is in the plans, possibly a Bayraktar, too,” Anušauskas told reporters on Tuesday. “I don’t want to elaborate on all those plans right now.” According to the minister, Lithuania regularly updates
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The Bell P-39 Airacobra is a fighter produced by Bell Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. It was one of the principal American fighters in service when the United States entered combat. The P-39 was used by the Soviet Air Force, and enabled individual
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RtR Hera can now do “more from less” better than anybody else by a tremendous margin of two to ten folds. It is the most advanced multicopter as an individual combat weapon. Hera is the most powerful individual combat drone: With backpack portability, Hera can be as easily deployable
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In four weeks of continuous live-fire exercises, an industry team led by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, and Kord, a wholly-owned subsidiary of KBR, defeated multiple 60mm mortar rounds with a 50kW-class high energy laser integrated on a Stryker combat vehicle. The directed energy weapon
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Fortem Technologies, leaders in airspace security and defense for detecting and defeating dangerous drones, has announced a new, smaller portable counter-UAS system in direct response to the crisis in Ukraine. Working closely with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Fortem provided Ukraine with a number of the Fortem SkyDome man-portable counter-UAS
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(This is utter fluff and stuff from the UK Environments Agency, pollution due to sewerage pumping by privatised water companies is at an all-time high in the UK. Netting huge profits for said companies, this is one of those placeholder PR pieces that I am putting in to remind me
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Today we are publishing a fully revised and updated list of countries operating medium altitude, long endurance (MALE) armed drones as typified by the MQ-9 Reaper and Bayraktar TB2. Please note our list does not include states operating loitering munitions (sometimes dubbed ‘suicide drones’ by the media) or other, one-off
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BlueHalo announce a $4M order of its Titan Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) kits by the US Department of Defense. The award is in support of an elite unit within the conventional U.S. Army, and will be used to defeat enemy drones on the battlefield abroad and at secure locations in
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Another large platform was lost to human factors, not spotting that the airframe was 4000′ too high on its final approach was quite a thing. LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. – — An Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board completed its investigation into an RQ-4B that crashed into
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BlueHalo and its Titan Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) Team are pleased to announce a $4M order of Titan Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) kits by the Department of Defense. The award is in support of an elite unit within the conventional U.S. Army, and will be used to defeat enemy drones
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It is now widely known that Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, has depended on the use of military drones to turn the tide in a bloody internal conflict waged against Tigrayan rebels. Fighting began in November 2020 after the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) declared the nation’s general elections
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The Thales Spy’Ranger 330 in service with the French Army as part of the SMDR programme has obtained its first type certification by the French defence procurement agency’s airworthiness authority, testifying to the system’s proven performance in combat situations. Type certification guarantees the airworthiness of the SMDR and enables the
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Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has rightly been condemned across the globe. The on-going war is horrific, with verified reports of indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas and a number of reports of killings which amount to war crimes. At the time of writing, the UN reports that around 2,000
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At approximately 9:38am on April 6th., a RQ-7 Shadow Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) assigned to the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) crashed on Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield shortly after takeoff. Fort Drum Emergency Services is stationed on the airfield and rapidly responded to the crash site, extinguishing
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The assembly of the wings of the KIZILELMA Combat Unmanned Aircraft System (MIUS), developed by Baykar Defense, has been completed. KIZILELMA’s production activities continue. Baykar Defense continues the production activities of KIZILELMA, which was developed within the scope of the Combat Unmanned Aircraft System (MIUS) Project. The final assembly of
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In February, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), which audits and evaluates government activities on behalf of the US Congress, published a study examining the Department of Defense’s approach to developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in weapon systems and assessing the current status of ‘war-fighting’ AI in the
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Boeing Australia congratulates the Australian Government and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on their selection of ‘MQ-28A Ghost Bat’ as the military designator and name for the first Australian-produced military combat aircraft in over 50 years. Australia’s Defence Minister, the Hon Peter Dutton MP, announced the designator and name at
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Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system is helping Ukrainian forces in the drone war as the nation fights back with technology to track down invading Russians. Aerorozvidka (Aerial Reconnaissance) is being used to attack Russian drones and target Vladmir Putin’s army of tanks and track down their positions in the conflict,
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A Hyderabad-based start-up claims that its rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can fly unimpeded in most adverse areas to a height of 18,000 feet above sea level for surveillance and combat needs over the Himalayas. Ramdas M Kumbala, 42, of Hindustan UAV Systems, which has been developing UAVs since 2015,
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