Tag: drones
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...
Cannon Based Air Defense (CBAD) Against Cruise Missiles and Drones
The increasing reliance on attack drones and cruise missiles is challenging the dominating reliance placed on missiles for air defence.
That these have become...
New EU Project to Develop Advanced Navigation for Space Satellites
European scientists developing ways to make space missions more efficient and cost-effective.
Two new sensors will help satellites fly more precisely and for...
ILA Berlin Air Show 2024: Digital sovereignty in the air domain powered by Rohde...
Rohde & Schwarz will showcase its airborne solutions and capabilities that support multi-domain operations ensuring spectrum dominance in all fields and along the complete signal chain...
Thales Provides Expeditionary Operations Centre Demonstrator to French Navy for Drone-based Mine Countermeasures Missions
Thales took less than six months to develop the Expeditionary Portable Operations Centre (e-POC), a lightweight, full-function mission planning, management and analysis demonstrator...
Cargo Drones See Exercise Trials
The increasing difficulty in resupplying of forward deployed forces on the battlefield has prompted militaries to explore various alternative ways to reliably execute this...
UK, Latvia to supply thousands of drones to Ukraine
The U.K.'s Ministry of Defence will supply thousands of drones to Ukraine, as co-leader of a capability coalition, according to a statement made by...
Beating the Minefield With Autonomous Countermeasures
The potential for autonomous mine hunting is now being realised - and the demand for it is growing.
Technological developments in mine countermeasure (MCM) systems...
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...
Drones are here to stay
Although the military's use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) goes back some 30 years, drones have recently shot up the priorities list.
The past...