Tag: AeroVironment
The challenges of powering military drones: lessons from operational use driving innovation
The use of drones in military environments has become increasingly essential, offering uncrewed advantages in surveillance, reconnaissance, and combat operations, on the land, in...
Galvion delivers an order of 400 MAX-8 Mission Adaptive Charging Stations™ to AeroVironment
Galvion, a world leader in the design and manufacture of integrated power and data management solutions and innovative head protection systems, has delivered the...
Jackal High Speed Drone Displayed
Northrop-Grumman displayed its Jackal high speed one-way multi-mission drone at the recent Association of the United States Army (AUSA) exposition in Washington DC.
Jackal...
Weapons That Watch and Wait
Loitering munitions may be increasingly morally questionable, but their effectiveness is undeniable.
The use of loitering munitions during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, during Russia’s intervention...
AeroVironment to Develop its Wildcat Autonomous VTOL UAS for DARPA’s ANCILLARY Program
AeroVironment (AV) was down selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for continued development of its X-Plane design for the agency’s AdvaNced...
U.S. Navy funds AeroVironment ISR research
AeroVironment, Inc. has received a $16 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy to develop computer vision and advanced video analytics systems for multi-domain...
US Army Down-Selects Shadow Replacement Candidates
The US Army has selected five potential candidates to replace its RQ-7B Shadow under its Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) Increment 2 program....
EDITOR’S BUNKER BRIEFING (30 January 2023, No.83)
CAVALRY ON THE HORIZON, BUT WITH MANY DIFFERENT HORSES
Dear Readers,
Welcome to the first Bunker Briefing of 2023.
Expert observers of the war in Ukraine expect...
Northrop-Grumman Jackal UAS for Penetrating Defenses
The limited air speed of most current Unmanned Aerial Systems, both ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) and Loitering Munitions (LM), have limited capability to...
AeroVironment JUMP20 Transforms its UAS
The traditional fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle displays the attributes of greater air speed and increased endurance but can be limited by the need for...