An XQ-58A Valkyrie autonomous unmanned combat aircraft equipped with an electronic attack payload successfully demonstrated suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD) capabilities with two F-35 fighters in a recent live […]
BRISBANE, March 26, 2024 — Construction will begin on Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] new production facility in Toowoomba, Queensland, to support the manufacture of Australia’s first military combat aircraft designed and […]
The autonomous flight and aviation company Reliable Robotics announced two contracts from the Defense Department and NASA that will help it bring remotely piloted aircraft to market, AIN reported. Reliable […]
The Army will be “the biggest participant” for the first round of the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative to field thousands of attritable autonomous systems by August 2025 “in terms of quantity,” […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is looking at the platform sharing concept that has been standard practice in carmaking for decades, which could make autonomous drones more affordable, Defense […]
The American-based startup Rotor Technologies said it finished the first live demonstration of an autonomous helicopter, with its R220Y, Aviation Week reported. The company uses an uncrewed Robinson R22 helicopter […]
NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission on the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in […]
Elliot Aviation delivered the first Garmin Autoland upgrade to a King Air B200 aircraft, AIN reports. The Autoland system, launched in 2011, can take control of an aircraft to autonomously […]
Aerospace and logistics company Elroy Air has raised $40 million in funding for its autonomous cargo aircraft from new investors like Marlinspike Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures, and Prosperity7 Ventures and […]
The Pentagon recently demonstrated autonomous, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tracking of mobile targets–an effort simultaneous with other such AI drone projects and DoD’s development of principles for ethical AI use, a […]