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Taiwan unveils portable attack drone as China tensions rise

Taichung, Taiwan (AFP) March 14, 2023 –

Taiwan unveiled its first portable attack drone on Tuesday, an unmanned aerial vehicle similar to a US model used in Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as China steps up military pressure on the island.

Taiwan’s 23.5 million people live under constant threat of an invasion

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Northrop Grumman Gets $57M US Navy MQ-4C Triton Support Contract for Australia

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is awarded a $57,403,706 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00017) to a previously awarded contract (N0001921C0060). This modification exercises options to provide continued sustainment, engineering, logistics, and test support for MQ-4C Triton air vehicles, mission control and operator training systems; continued field service representative’s technical support

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Animal Dynamics’ Stork Parafoil UAV Selected for Royal Navy’s UAS Heavy Lift Challenge -Phase 2

Animal Dynamics – a UK technology company specialising in autonomous heavy-lift uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) – has been selected to participate in the next phase of the Royal Navy’s Uncrewed Aerial Systems Heavy Lift Challenge (UASHLC) with its Stork STM parafoil UAV. The Stork STM is an autonomous aerial logistics

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Red Cat Holdings Invests in Firestorm Modular UAS Company

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. a military technology company integrating robotic hardware and software to protect and support the warfighter, has made a materially significant financial investment in Firestorm, an American company developing the first completely Modular Unmanned Aerial System (MUAS) that is 3D printed and payload agnostic. Firestorm is

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Russian Su-27 Jets Down MQ-9 Over Black Sea

A U.S military MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets, in the first such incident since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over a year ago. The Pentagon said that one of the Russian Su-27 jets struck the propeller of the drone,

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Military Research Unit to Unveil Taiwan-Developed Drones

A Taiwan top military research unit will unveil a series of domestically made attack drones in Taichung Tuesday, including a loitering munition similar to the United States’ AeroVironment Switchblade 300, a source told CNA. According to the unnamed source, the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) will unveil

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Video of Ukrainian Volunteer Regiment’s Drone Attack Russian Surveillance Tower

The Kraken Regiment, a Ukrainian volunteer regiment, released footage of a ‘kamikaze drone attack’ on a ‘autonomous Grenadier surveillance tower’. The Kraken Regiment, formed on February 24, 2022, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, said its intelligence forces “destroyed an autonomous Grenadier surveillance tower in Bryansk Oblast using a kamikaze drone.”

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FAA Grants Textron Special Airworthiness Certificate to Operate Aerosonde UAS in Civil Operations

Textron Systems Corporation announced that it has been issued a special airworthiness certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct civil unmanned aircraft operations at its Unmanned Systems Service and Support Center located in Blackstone, Virginia, adjacent to the Allen C. Perkinson Blackstone Army Airfield (KBKT). The company received

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Boeing, Shield to Collaborate on Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy for Defense Programs

Boeing and Shield AI have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore strategic collaboration in the areas of autonomous capabilities and artificial intelligence on current and future defense programs. The agreement, signed at the Air Force Association Warfare Symposium, will be managed by Boeing Phantom Works. “Boeing continues to

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US Military Covered Up Fatal Flaws in the B-47 Stratojet

The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The primary mission of the B-47 was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking targets within

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US Air Force Drones Can Now Recognize Faces

The U.S. Air Force now has the capability to use facial recognition on drones that could target specific people. Special operations forces can use the drones to gather intelligence and to aid in other missions, according to a contract first spotted by New Scientist. It’s part of a growing movement

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Drones and IP: Where and Why Are They Taking Off?

“When a company wants to start commercialising drone technology, the patent landscape can be thought of as a minefield.” Drone technology has taken to the skies over the past twenty years in multiple areas—from applications to the military. It seems like everyone wants their piece of the skies including meal

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South Korea to Launch Military Drone Unit in July

South Korea’s military plans to launch a comprehensive drone operations unit in July as part of its efforts to bolster its counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capabilities following North Korea’s drone incursions late last year. According to officials Wednesday, the military is accelerating its efforts to map out its plans, such

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Video Shows Drone Landing on Russian A-50 Radar Jet

Another video has appeared showing a drone, apparently launched by Belarusian partisans, landing on a Russian A-50 Mainstay airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft at Machulishchy Air Base in Belarus. The footage is inconclusive when it comes to confirming whether the claimed drone attack caused any damage to the

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US Army Awards FTUAS Increment 2 Agreements

The U.S. Army awarded five Rapid Prototyping Other Transaction Agreements (OTA) to AeroVironment, Inc.; Griffon Aerospace, Incorporated; Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation; Sierra Nevada Corporation; and Textron Systems for the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) Increment 2 (INC 2) competition on February 27. The awards are based on the results

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First Batch of Thor Drones Delivered to Philippine Army

The Philippine Army has received an initial batch of new THOR mini unmanned aerial systems (mUAS) from Israel’s Elbit Systems. According to Philippine website Max Defense, the Philippine Army ordered 533 systems, which each system composed of 2 THOR unmanned aerial vehicles and a man-portable flight and surveillance operating

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Belarusian Partisans Claim Drone Attack on Russian AWAC

Belarusian anti-war partisans claim to have severely damaged a Russian military aircraft in what an opposition leader has called the “most successful diversion” since the beginning of the war. BYPOL, the Belarusian partisan organisation, said it had used drones to strike the Machulishchy airfield 1km from Minsk, severely damaging a

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