The US Marine Corps is planning to use a cash prize effort in development and procurement of its MUX unmanned aircraft
Cash prizes are an unorthodox way of procuring a major weapon system
The Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, began the final phase of industrial qualification flights of the Safran Electronics & Defense Système de Drones Tactiques (SDT) Patroller tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from the DGA's flight testing centre in Istres, southern France, on 13 June, the agency and Safran announced on their websites on 17 June.
The US Air Force (USAF) Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie long-range, high subsonic, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) demonstrator completed its second flight on 11 June, according to a service statement.
The latest reconnaissance variant of the Korsar unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was unveiled at the Army 2019 defence exhibition being held in Kubinka close to Moscow on 25–30 June.
Aurora Flight Sciences has indefinitely delayed the first flight of its Odysseus solar-powered high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology demonstrator nine months after unveiling the platform to the public.
Russia’s Okhotnik (Hunter) heavy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has made its first flight, a video of which the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) posted online on 7 August 2019.
The US Army Futures Command is issuing a solicitation request to industry to collect information on emerging robotics and sensor technologies for small tactical units under the incipient Smart Targeting Environment for Lower Level Assets (STELLA) programme.
The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) showed video footage of the first flight of the Altius-U unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on social media on 20 August.
The Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) unveiled a scale model of a previously unseen unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the 2019 MAKS air show being held near Moscow from 27 August to 1 September.
The Indonesian Air Force (Tentara Nasional Indonesia – Angkatan Udara; TNI-AU) has officially unveiled its recently acquired CH-4 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Photographs have recently emerged indicating that China’s recently paraded WZ-8 high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been assigned to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s (PLAAF’s) 30th Air Regiment, which operates from Luhe-Ma’an air base near Nanjing: the capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu Province.
Elbit Systems has sold a “multi-layered array of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs)” to an undisclosed Southeast Asian army, the company announced on 6 October.
The US Air Force’s (USAF’s) Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) spaceplane returned to the earth’s surface on 27 October after spending 780 days in space on its latest mission.
China’s push towards greater civil-military integration in science and technology appears to be gaining momentum as reflected in the 20-22 September Military and Civilian Equipment Technology Achievement Exhibition held in the Chinese city of Xian: the hub for much of the country’s aerospace industry.
Austrian company Schiebel has won a contract for the production and supply of an undisclosed number of Camcopter S-100 rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN).
Airbus and its partners aim to finalise the scope and price of the European Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE) Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) in the coming weeks, ahead of a planned first prototype flight in 2025.
The British Army is still having issues operating its Watchkeepers, despite the UAVs having received their ‘release to service’ certification
Three Watchkeeper UAVs have crashed in recent years while on UK-based training sorties