Drones

Armored vehicle crews already have plenty to manage during combat, from navigating difficult terrain and monitoring threats to operating weapons and communicating with other...

Drones are becoming a growing threat to ships, ports and other maritime assets, but detecting small aircraft over open water creates its own challenge....

GPS has become fundamental to modern drones and guided systems, but it also creates a vulnerability. Satellite signals can be jammed or spoofed, potentially...

Monitoring vast stretches of ocean creates a basic endurance problem. Crewed patrol aircraft can carry sophisticated sensors and respond quickly, but keeping them airborne...

Military forces are adding drones and uncrewed ground vehicles faster than ever, but deploying more robots creates a new problem: someone still has to...

Long-range precision strikes are becoming increasingly difficult as electronic warfare disrupts GPS and communications links across the battlefield. Ground forces need weapons that can...

Mass attacks by one-way drones have created an increasingly difficult problem for air-defense forces. Systems such as the Shahed family can be launched in...

Small battery-powered drones face a basic limitation: endurance. Their motors, batteries and airframes must balance weight against the energy needed to stay airborne, often...

Counter-drone systems have a reaction-time problem. If a hostile UAV is only detected or disrupted once it enters the range of a handheld jammer,...

Counter-drone weapons face a growing range problem. As unmanned aircraft become faster, more maneuverable and capable of operating farther from their targets, air-defense systems...

Battery weight remains one of the biggest constraints on electric drones and autonomous systems. Adding more cells can extend range or endurance, but the...

Small and medium-sized drones are forcing ground forces to rethink air defense. Fixed systems can protect bases and other permanent sites, but troops on...

Robot swarms could eventually search disaster zones, monitor hazardous areas or coordinate autonomous missions without requiring a human operator to control every machine. But...

Fixed-wing drones can travel farther and faster than many multirotor aircraft, but operating them can require more space, specialized launch and recovery procedures and...

Drones are useful for surveillance and reconnaissance because they can remain overhead without putting a crew at risk. But they also create signatures that...

Military drones are evolving quickly, but the factories building them do not always move at the same speed. Traditional aircraft manufacturing can depend on...

INNOFENSE was created to identify promising technologies from the civilian market and help unlock their potential for defense applications. Following the progress achieved in...

Drone-on-drone interception becomes considerably harder as the target gets faster. An interceptor not only has to locate and approach another aircraft but also calculate...

Every electrical system inside a drone needs power, and delivering it normally means running wires through wings, fuselage sections, and other structural components. Those...

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When defenders assess a network for cyberattacks, the most highly connected components can appear to be the obvious targets. Compromise a central hub, the...

Long-endurance drones such as the MQ-9 Reaper have provided militaries with persistent surveillance and strike capabilities for decades. But future conflicts may demand something...