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A new aircraft in the early stages of development is designed for intracity travel. Bellwether Industries, an urban air mobility (UAM) startup in the...

A new door breaching grenade technology will improve Explosive Method of Entry (EMOE) operations and provide more safety for breaching teams. The 40mm stand-off...

The UK government is interested in advancing an unmanned initiative in the stratospheric layer of the earth's atmosphere, extending to about 32 miles (50...

Sea mines constitute a growing threat. A cutting-edge autonomous system able to detect modern sea mine threats and reduce risk to life has been...

MI6, UK’s secret intelligence service, is pursuing partnerships with the technology industry to tackle the challenges posed by nation-states, cyber-criminals and global terrorists. Head...

The UK's Samad Aerospace is making progress with half-scale prototypes of its E-Starling eVTOL aircraft and has now started taking pre-orders for a smaller...

Resupply is a major challenge in military operations. The UK Royal Navy is developing new approaches to acquire autonomous solutions to support operational activities...

A UK elite unit was equipped with advanced drone technology when responding to the suicide bombing incident in Liverpool on November 14. A taxi driver...

New technologies that offer help to forces in finding enemy troops when operating in confined or urban environments were evaluated during a military exercise...

Some 10,000 police officers are being deployed each day in Glasgow during the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), one...

For the first time, British special forces have been equipped with a pistol that can kill enemy divers ­underwater from more than 30m. UK’s Special...

The US Navy and UK Royal Navy have successfully executed a maritime sensor-to-shooter demonstration culminating in the firing of an AeroVironment Switchblade 300 tactical...

US and UK forces simulated a combat scenario using a common platform, enabling operators to share data and machine learning algorithms to support wide-area...

In an effort designed to enhance access to healthcare services in rural parts of the UK, a first-of-its-kind drone distribution network is under development. Meanwhile,...

The UK Navy experiments launching jet-powered drones from its carriers. Fixed-wing drones were flown from a carrier’s vast flight deck to assess how they...

The UK military is getting anti-drone laser weapons. The British Ministry of Defence has awarded three directed-energy weapon demonstrator contracts totaling £72.5 million ($100...

In a first, the Royal Navy is reassigning an experienced crew from a Mine Countermeasures Squadron, and putting them in charge of autonomous minehunting...

Artificial intelligence is at the heart of a force protection system for the UK military. Anduril has secured a two-year, $5.2 million contract to...

A new autonomous aircraft could become the next-generation of drones that accompany manned planes into battle. Northrop Grumman has unveiled the stealthy jet Model...

Advanced maritime information technology was demonstrated successfully in an unmanned aerial vehicle. The trials demonstrated how a navy warship can benefit from the intelligence...

With an explosion of data and phone devices and computers in recent years, workloads for law enforcement investigators have grown exponentially, and It’s taking...

For a number of years Dstl – the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory  – has been researching the potential of using autonomy and...