Aevum – an aerospace startup – recently released its rocket-launching drone designed to send small satellites into orbit without a pilot or a launchpad. Called the RAVN-X, after flight testing it is scheduled to launch […]
Under the Submarine-Launched Unmanned Aerial System (SLUAS), the U.S. Navy is equipping submarines with camera-equipped drones that can be launched to detect targets too far away to be seen through a submarine periscope. Called “flying […]
Marine Corps System Command (MARCORSYSCOM) has released an RFI for industry sources to produce a man-portable system capable of launching swarms of kamikaze drones over contested battlefields. Officially described as an “individually operated, man-portable, anti-material, […]
A collaboration of researchers from UNSW Canberra, Bielefeld University, The Max Planck Institute, Brown University, and The University of California are studying how bumblebees fly – with an eye to applying that knowledge in the […]
The Army Research Laboratory’s Combat Capabilities Development Command has funded a four-year, $8 million research project with The University of Illinois Chicago to build an autonomous charging system that can support swarms of drones. The […]
Researchers at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have built a tube-launched drone that removes the standard requirements for takeoff conditions. The football-shaped foldable quadrotor is fired out of a cannon, unfolds itself, and then […]
Researchers from the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas have received a $780,000 grant from the Army Research Laboratory to study the combustion engines used in aerial Army drones. […]
Horizon31 – a spin out from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – seeks to commercialize a system that allows users to operate drones from anywhere in the world using only an […]
The Defense Department’s technology innovation unit (DIU) recently approved five U.S. companies for drone production as alternatives to Chinese-made systems. Altavian, Parrot SA, Skydio, Teal, and Vantage Robotics are now all approved to provide Airborne […]
The U.S. Army recently tested Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) to overcome “enemy” jamming and direct Patriot missiles to intercept target drones. The Patriot radar and missile battery was integrated with a pair […]
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