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TEKEVER has signed a contract worth up to €3.2 million to provide satellite communications technology for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Comet Interceptor mission. The contract comes as TEKEVER opens a new site in Toulouse, France, dedicated to building the company’s capabilities in satellite communications and space technology. Continue reading
Iran’s defense industry has introduced a new surveillance drone – the Shahed-147, a high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system. Continue reading
In a significant milestone for technological innovation and sustainable air mobility growth in the UAE, Embention and EANAN, a Dubai-based Urban Air Mobility company, signed an unprecedented MOU agreement within the framework of the Dubai Airshow 2023. Continue reading
A Brazilian defense organization, Mac Jee Group, which displayed the loitering munition prototype at the Dubai Airshow, said the weapon has a range of 120 kilometers (62 miles), operates at 612 kph (380 mph), has a one-hour endurance and can carry a payload of 20 kilograms (44 pounds). Continue reading
Aerospace engineering students from Ohio State University were invited to Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport, Ohio, to learn about AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force, and Advanced Air Mobility earlier in November 2023. Continue reading
The largest uncrewed aircraft ever launched from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier has paved the way for the next generation of UK naval air power. Codenamed ‘Mojave’, the specially-modified aircraft – operated remotely by a ‘pilot’ at a computer terminal – has taken-off from and safely landed back on board HMS Prince of Wales in a unique trial off the East Coast of the USA. Continue reading
Ukraine produces dozens of so-called Ukrainian ‘Shaheds’ per month, which are clones of Iranian drones, Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industry, said at the annual meeting of the European Business Association.
EDGE announced its first major order from the UAE Armed Forces for the locally-manufactured REACH-S fixed-wing UAV. Announced at the Dubai Airshow, the order to supply 100 REACH-S is the first of its kind for the for UAE-made fixed-wing drones. Continue reading