The companies are gauging the market for a flight-certified carrier enclosure for housing their drone customers' sensor payloads. The U.S. and U.K. are leading contributors to NATO joint ISR, with “everybody else” tailing, an official said at the GEOINT Symposium. Six “Kinzhal” aero-ballistic missiles launched from from MiG-31K aircraft, 9 cruise missiles from ships and 3 land-based missiles targeted the capital. The Ministry of Defense wants three SDAM aircraft delivered by the end of the year. The Integrated Battle Problem exercise allows U.S. Pacific Fleet to evaluate uncrewed tech and discover their best applications. The systems are designed to carry payloads of up to 150 pounds over distances of up to nine miles in containers secured underneath. Carrier drones are meant to carry small, grenade-laden quadcopters close to their targets. The announcement follows Bucharest's stated intention last year to buy 18 drones to be operated by the country's land forces. The Corps’ experimentation with systems that require no crew comes as part of an ambitious revamp of the service. Service chiefs want rocket artillery, submarine-hunting aircraft, more F-35s and more sailors to fully crew Italian warships. Load More