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Anduril reveals Roadrunner drone, mum on first US customer
The baseline model can quickly launch and fly at high subsonic speeds and its payloads can be reconfigured for a variety of missions.
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Defense Innovation Unit to host Replicator technology summit
The summit is slated for early 2024 and is designed to update companies on the Replicator process and get feedback on the Defense Department’s plans.
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Lockheed, Northrop win US Army contract for spy gear on launched drones
Launched effects — hurtling outward from vehicles and aircraft — are meant to complement equipment soldiers already rely on to scout, target, jam and kill.
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Replicator candidates to be chosen by early December, Pentagon says
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks laid out the timeline for Replicator, an initiative to field thousands of drones within 24 months.
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Brazilian firm Mac Jee unveils exploding drone, with demo in months
A demonstration of the drone is scheduled for next year during the World Defense Show in Saudi Arabia.
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General Atomics fires back at critics of MQ-9 drone after downing
Experts have questioned the sustainability of flying expensive aircraft in contested environments.
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Greek drone maker nears first surveillance drone sale to Athens
Hellenic Aerospace Industry wants to sell its surveillance and combat drones to the Greek armed forces first before pitching to international customers.
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Pentagon counter-drone office makes headway as services adopt new tech
Here's how the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office is moving capability out of development and into the field.
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Turkey and UAE cozy up over drone, missile cooperation
The countries have focused on strengthening bilateral ties through agreements in the defense and technology sectors, among others.
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Airbus, maker of long-flying Zephyr, launches US drone business
The Pentagon in August rolled out its Replicator initiative, calling for thousands of attritable systems in the field to counter China.
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Spanish tech center to test Eurodrone’s propulsion system
The deal marks the first step toward the platform’s eventual test flight.
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US Navy tests sub-launched drones while industry continues designing
The Navy fleet is experimenting with launching and recovering medium UUVs from submarines, even as a formal acquisition effort is still ongoing.
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UAE’s Edge Group takes over Swiss unmanned helicopter maker Anavia
The acquisition comes as the Swiss government debates a screening mechanism for foreign acquisitions of local firms with national security implications.
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Navy surface drone fires its first missile during Middle East exercise
The mini missile fire was part of an exercise by a unit working to develop the Navy's drone and artificial intelligence technologies.
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German air chief urges haste in fielding strike, utility drones
The Luftwaffe wants so-called remote carriers and a dedicated combat drone earlier than the timing of the Future Combat Air System envisions.
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Are the once-vaunted Bayraktar drones losing their shine in Ukraine?
A local commander sees the unmanned aircraft as too vulnerable for combat, while the manufacturer says the mission types have changed.
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Slovenian firm quietly provides surveillance drones to Ukraine
Slovenian drone maker C-Astral recently provided Belin or Bramor C4EYE drones to Ukrainian troops, Defense News has learned.
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