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The European Detect and Avoid System (EUDAAS) demonstrator, integrated into Leonardo’s Falco Xplorer, completed its final test flight at Trapani airport, validating advanced sensors, digital flight controls and smart technologies for safe integration of large remotely piloted aircraft into European air traffic alongside other crewed and uncrewed aircraft. Continue reading
The Bayraktar TB3 UCAV, which made aviation history as the first unmanned aerial vehicle to take off and land on a short-deck vessel, is successfully continuing its shipboard tests. During its second flight test conducted on November 26th. aboard TCG Anadolu, cruising off the coast of Çanakkale, Bayraktar TB3 performed two more successful takeoffs and landings without using any landing support equipment. Continue reading
The Defense Innovation Unit recently hosted the first of what is intended to be an annual Blue UAS Refresh event at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California. Continue reading
– Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, in partnership with Lockheed Martin’s Demonstrations and Prototypes organization and the University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL), showcased a crewed-uncrewed teaming mission where an airborne battle manager issued real-time commands to AI-controlled aircraft through a touchscreen pilot vehicle interface (PVI). Continue reading
– General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. logged another aviation milestone on Nov. 12, 2024, when its Gray Eagle STOL aircraft took off from a South Korean warship and landed at a ground base – the first-ever such mission for an aircraft of this type. Continue reading
– Anduril Industries has announced the successful integration of its Lattice platform in U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) Desert Guardian exercise, a critical event designed to address the increasing complexity of modern airspace and the growing threat posed by unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Continue reading
The U.S. Navy tested its Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station’s (UMCS) ability to command an unmanned aircraft in flight for the first time Nov. 5, paving the way for future unmanned aviation operations. Continue reading
The US Navy (USN) has logged another milestone on its path to fielding its first aircraft carrier-based uncrewed aerial vehicle. In conjunction with airframer Boeing, the service completed a simulated landing of the developmental Boeing MQ-25 Stingray autonomous refueller jet aboard an aircraft carrier using an automated recovery system. Continue reading