Autonomous drone flight

Netherlands Is Giving Its Future Frigates a 12-Meter Drone Boat Wingman

The Royal Netherlands Navy is equipping its future anti-submarine warfare frigates with a new uncrewed surface vessel designed to detect and track enemy submarines in contested waters.

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New UAV Pushes Battlefield Sensing Into the Stratosphere

The US Army could soon gain a new long-endurance sensing platform through Icarus’ high-altitude, solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle.

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Portugal Debuts Heavy-Lift Drone That Can Carry 200-Kilogram Payloads

Portuguese firm TEKEVER is pushing autonomous logistics forward with the AR6, a heavy-lift drone designed to transport 200-kilogram payloads across distances of up to 500 kilometers.

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Applied Intuition’s New Autonomy Software Aims to Work Across Any Drone Platform

US firm Applied Intuition is trying to solve one of the key challenges in autonomous aviation: autonomy software restricted to a single unmanned aerial vehicle.

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L3Harris, Shield AI Let AI Run the Electronic Warfare Fight

L3Harris and Shield AI have completed the first flight test of an autonomous electronic warfare ecosystem capable of detecting, analyzing, and responding to electromagnetic threats without human intervention.

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UK Firm Unveils AI-Powered ‘Drone Base in a Box’

British firm Urban-Air Port is targeting one of modern warfare’s key operational challenges: enabling rapid, scalable unmanned aerial vehicle launch, recovery, and sustainment.

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India Gives Drone Launches a Faster Exit Strategy

Indian firm N3X Defence has given its WRATH unmanned aerial vehicles a new way into the fight, unveiling a concept designed to support shoot-and-scoot tactics.

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Germany’s New Stealth Drone Packs 950-Km Reach Into Blended-Wing Airframe

A long-range unmanned aerial system under development by German firm Quantum Cyber features stealth architecture intended to reduce detectability from adversary radar in contested airspace.

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Saudi Arabia Now Has Its Own Shahed-Style Drone With 1,500-Km Range

Saudi Arabia is expanding into the long-range strike drone segment with the SKYWASP, a one-way attack drone featuring a Shahed-style configuration

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Lithuanian Drone Kit Stretches FPV Control Reach Beyond 25 Kilometers

An airborne retransmission kit from Lithuanian firm RSI Europe aims to overcome a tactical limitation of first-person view drone operations in contested environments.

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