What follows are notes from the personal log of Rear Admiral Chester “Hammer” Cain, commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft…
Military
Day of the Jackal
Northrop Grumman’s Jackal concept munition satisfies a need for speed, and more. Two loitering munitions sat side by side this…
New Products from Teledyne FLIR
Teledyne FLIR is moving forward with two camera modules that offer high performance in compact packages. Kelly Brodbeck, Teledyne FLIR’s…
Five Good Questions: Christian Trotti, Atlantic Council
Christian Trotti is assistant director of Forward Defense in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. The…
Working Together
Manned-unmanned teaming, or MUM-T, capabilities are being developed for militaries through a variety of projects, with the goal of improving…
Robotic Research Accelerates Commercial Autonomy Applications
A company with military application roots is leveraging two decades of autonomous mobility experience to scale its autonomy solution for…
A Good Day for the Blues?
UAS Cybersecurity is Critical to the Modern Battlefield. Uncrewed aircraft systems have helped stave off Russia’s invasion of Ukraine despite…
Up Close With…Wahid Nawabi, CEO, chairman and president, AeroVironment
From Switchblade® to Quantix™, AeroVironment is filling the skies of Ukraine with capable UAS. For Wahid Nawabi, the reasons are…
GNSS Put to the Test, on the Battlefield and Beyond
For unmanned aerial vehicles, precise positioning, navigation and timing systems are widely seen as absolutely requisite, and their resilience needs…
ALEs: Multiplatform Force Multipliers
Smaller and cheaper, yet interoperable and effective, Air-Launched Effects are expanding the Army’s reach and power. One company details the…
Checking In: FTUAS Moves Forward, Stealthily
The Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS) program—the U.S. Army’s initiative to replace the RQ-7 Shadow with a far more nimble and…
Textron Systems’ Aerosonde® Small Unmanned Aircraft System Takes First Flight from U.S. Navy Guided Missile Destroyer
Textron Systems Corporation has announced the successful first flight and maritime integration of the Aerosonde® Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) on…
No-Fly with No Crews
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is full of lessons for the US. New ones like the lethality of modern anti-tank missiles…
Robust Anti-Jamming Navigation System Uses Inertial and Radar to Complete BVLOS Mission
In November 2021 in Israel, infiniDome, Honeywell, and Easy Aerial demonstrated a UAV-tailored resilient navigation solution to complete critical missions…
Air Force Orders 15 Silent Arrow Precision-Guided Cargo Delivery Drones
The U.S. Air Force through its Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Silent Arrow a contract for “Guided Bundle Derivative of…
LMT Showcases Deployment of Unmanned Systems in a Milrem Robotics-led iMUGS Consortium Demonstration
The iMUGS Consortium, in charge of a 32,6M EUR project developing the European standard unmanned ground system (UGS), demonstrated how…
