Unmanned Systems

  Northrop Grumman will supply unmanned helicopters to the US Navy. The company has won a $108.1 million contract from the US department of defense...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is, once again, going head to head with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in the European market. The American company announced that...

Automotive industry giants and would-be behemoths are working hard on developing self-driving cars. Work is underway to create advanced artificial intelligences (AI) systems that...

LiDAR sensors used on driverless cars measure the distance to target objects by illuminating them with laser light and measuring the reflected pulses. However,...

Small UAVs have been defined in various terms among the national regulatory authorities, often without including size precisions, and differences about weight measurement specifications....

Unmanned aerial systems are sometimes required to operate in harsh weather conditions, dust, etc. The U.S. Navy has selected L3Harris Technologies to participate in...

Loss of telemetry downlink signal was the main cause for the crash of an MQ-1B Predator 7.5 nautical miles north of Holloman Air Force...

One disadvantage to drones of the fixed-wing variety, that can travel very long distances, is the space needed to launch them, along with some...

U.S. military researchers are looking to develop a constellation of small, secure, and affordable military satellites that not only are able to operate in...

Hezbollah's open preparations for another round against Israel are extremely worrying. They are not only worrying due to the dozens of rockets the terror...

Collecting and analyzing data on serious global challenges through conventional methods would take years, and a national crisis could occur before the completion of...

An autonomous security platform that protects IoT devices has been unveiled! This software will prevent hackers from gaining unauthorized access and executing cyberattacks against...

After completing initial demonstrations of its autonomous capabilities, a new unmanned surface vehicle (USV) has been unveiled,  The 8.2 m-long Proteus 2.0 USV manufactured...

All photos: Noam Eshel, defense-Update The Russian Su-35S, making its international debut here at the Paris Airshow, stole the show with breathtaking aerobatic performance that...

By iHLS NewsDesk The IDF's “Sky Rider” Artillery Corps Unit, which operates the Skylark UAV, is celebrating its third birthday, and it's getting some nice...

Fuel cells are an environmentally friendly power technology that also can provide superior performance for certain applications. A fuel cell uses the chemical energy...

HevenDrones, a company that revolutionized drone tech by integrating it with hydrogen fuel, revealed its latest achievement- the H2D200 Series is hydrogen-powered, and has...

A new distance record has been achieved by un unmanned aerial vehicle. France’s electricity company RTE and Delair-Tech have set a new distance record...

The Turkish military is accelerating its drone development programme in response to increased incidence of ISIS mortar attacks across the border. Dozens of Turkish...

Drones today are limited by a simple constraint: batteries. No matter how advanced the airframe or onboard sensors are, endurance remains capped by how...

Defence manufacturer Northrop Grumman is tackling one of the biggest developing problems of fighter jets: cyber risk. Tom Vice, President at Northrop Grumman Aerospace...