In an event on April 20th. attended by Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, more than 200 strategic unmanned aerial vehicles, designed and manufactured by the Defense Ministry in cooperation with the Army, were delivered to various units of the Army in several parts of the country. Continue reading
Category Archives: Military UAS
Leidos to Develop Autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Resupply System for US Marine Corps
Leidos , a FORTUNE 500 science and technology leader, was recently awarded a new prime contract to develop an uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) that can autonomously resupply forward-deployed ground forces. The firm-fixed-price, multiple-award contract has a period of performance of 18 months to build a single prototype for the Marine Corps. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Gets $16M RQ4 USAF Maintenance Contract Modification
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Sierra Vista, Arizona, has been awarded a $16,372,416 modification (P00023) to previously awarded contract FA8690-21-C-1001 for Global Hawk (RQ-4) aircraft sustainment. Continue reading
Kiev’s Kazhan Multi-Propeller UAV
Ukraine’s National Guard has released footage from its combat training, showing the operation of the Kazhan unmanned aerial vehicle. Although these aircraft have long been used by Ukrainian forces, there is little publicly available information about the systems. Continue reading
Iran Unveils New Drones at National Army Day Parade
The Islamic Republic of Iran Army units have unveiled a broad range of advanced gear such as homegrown missiles, tanks, armored vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, radar systems and air defense missile systems.
Aeronautics to Supply Greece with Advanced Orbiter 3 Tactical UAVs
Aeronautics Ltd. has announced a contract to supply dozens of its Orbiter 3 systems to the Greek Ministry of Defense. The agreement is part of the large contract between the Israeli and Greek Ministry of Defense, worth approximately 370 million euros, for the procurement of Rafael’s Spike missiles. Continue reading
FLIR Gets $94M US Army Black Hornet Contract
FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems, Hvalstad, Norway, was awarded a $93,889,000 firm-fixed-price contract for Black Hornet 3 unmanned aerial systems, spare parts and ancillary services. Continue reading
US Government to Purchase Alpha 900 Helicopter UAVs
Rapid Expeditionary Concepts, a U.S. based system integrator has announced a prime contract award from the U.S. Department of Defense for the purchase of Alpha 900 unmanned helicopter systems manufactured by Alpha Unmanned Systems, SL (Madrid, Spain) for integration, test, evaluation, and deployment. Continue reading