The CIA and the U.S. Army have been using a new type of missile for some drone strikes in recent years, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal and echoed by several newspapers and web sites. The AGM-114 R9X, or "flying Ginsu," doesn’t explode but instead deploys six sharp blades, hitting and shredding targets without harming people and material nearby.
The US Army plans to downselect three potential replacements for its Textron RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) later this month before handing them over to operational units for a ‘try-decide-buy’ procurement.
Präsident Trump will US-Soldaten aus Deutschland abziehen. Damit setzt er den außenpolitischen Alleingang der USA und das Ringen um ihre Vormachtstellung im Konzert der Großmächte fort. Was bedeutet seine präsidentielle Selbstbezogenheit für seine Nato-Partner?
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
As part of Washington’s plan to beef up troop numbers inside Poland and establish a forward division headquarters there to deter potential Russian military actions, it will also be stationing a US Air Force (USAF) MQ-9 Reaper squadron in the nation.
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.
US marines and sailors are testing out a host of unmanned technologies that could potentially help solve some of their logistical challenges when operating in remote areas, including the arming and refuelling of F-35B Lightning II aircraft.
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.
A new study recommends the Pentagon embrace a new systems warfare strategy centred around seamless information sharing and a networked kill web
The new strategy would help the Department of Defense prepare for warfare in highly contested environments
Boeing will partner with an Australian defence research centre to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in support of military unmanned systems.
US President Donald Trump and his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, signed a Joint Declaration on Advancing Defense Cooperation between their two countries on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York on 23 September.
The US Air Force awarded Raytheon a contract for in-field experimentation with its high-power microwave system.
The system can be used to take down UAVs by disrupting or permanently damaging their electronics.
Dedrone, a San Francisco-based start-up company, has purchased the DroneDefender counter-small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) technology developed by Battelle, an Ohio-based research organisation.
The US Marine Corps (USMC) is looking toward a future where the battlefield is littered with combatant, human-shaped robots and is seeking industry’s help to acquire robotic targets for training.
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.