LORA Weapon System Trial Completed Successfully by IAI
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has completed a dual operational firing trial with LORA (Long-Range Artillery Weapon System), a precise ballistic strike missile. Held in...
New Combat UAV to Be Equipped with AIr-to-Air Missiles
A new Russian combat UAV was recently developed. Russia’s Modern Aviation Technologies (SAT) Design Bureau has developed a UAV concept based on its SR-10...
GMARS ‘Shoot and Scoot’ Missile Launcher System
Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall unveiled their new missile launcher system called the GMARS (Global Mobile Artillery Rocket System) at the Eurosatory 2024 in Paris.
GMARS...
Charging Tech Revolutionizes Air Travel
The development of flying taxis transporting passengers has brought about new developments in the industry of electric VTOL aircraft.
Flying taxi firm Lilium and Swedish/Swiss...
Swarm Technology Applied to Autonomous Naval Battlefield
In a recent US Navy autonomous swarm boat demonstration, waterborne robots collaborated to identify, surround, and harass an enemy vessel. The boats can identify a...
Artificial Intelligence for Public Safety
Artificial intelligence coupled with cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) technology can be a powerful measure to achieve public safety. Oil company Royal...
Promising UAV Start-Up Acquired by Intel
There are thousands of drone companies out there, but Intel has chosen to acquire Mavinci, a start-up from one of the European Space Agency...
New Gun-Mounted Cameras to be Used by Police Officers
With advancements in technology allowing for cameras to be smaller, law enforcement agencies from around the world have started to equip their police officers...
Uncertainty is Preferable When Drone Navigation is Concerned
Flying drones through cluttered environments like cities is complicated. The ability to avoid obstacles while traveling at high speeds has computational limits, especially for...
NASA Found New Use for BVLOS Drone Flights
The ability to provide a “volcano forecast” could help reduce the significant health, safety, and even economic impacts of eruptions. Sending researchers on foot...
Australian Army to Be Equipped with Advanced Boxer CRV
The Australian Army will get 211 new Boxer CRV armored combat vehicles, after Rheinmetall was awarded a US$4.1 billion contract, defeating a rival bid...
The US Navy’s 13-Foot Giant Electric Transforming Drone
The innovative folding wing Transwing X-P4 drone by PteroDynamics has completed a critical set of sea trials for the United States Navy. The fully autonomous,...
WATCH: DARPA’s Submarine Hunter In Action
We’ve written about it before, but the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been working on something truly spectacular: an autonomous ship that...
Electric Cargo Aircraft Under Development
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...
Mysterious UAV Exposed by Lockheed Martin After Years of Secrecy
Lockheed Martin has revealed the existence of a formerly secret UAV. Although the X-44A’s existence is no longer a secret, Lockheed is not yet...
US Army Testing Exoskeletons For Combat Use
The United States Army has been looking at commercial companies developing exoskeleton technologies for the potential use of combat soldiers in the battlefield. The...
Autonomous Gyrocopter to Deliver Heavy Cargo
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has been at work developing an autonomous gyrocopter that is intended to ship cargo. The Automated Low Altitude Air...
Digital Control Towers Will Not Be Located at Airports
Digital remote control towers are revolutionizing air traffic management. Digital air traffic control means airports can manage their planes from anywhere in the world....
UK Soldiers Get Lighter and More Accurate Rifle
Britain’s Army has been upgrading its weapons. More than £5 million were spent on the upgrading of the SA80 rifle to give it enhanced...
The New Electric Underwater Drone With 15-Day Range
Kongsberg (a Norwegian tech company) is nearing completion of its most advanced autonomous underwater drone to date – the HUGIN Endurance AUV (autonomous underwater...
This Robot Sees Threats on the Ground — and Now in...
Unmanned ground vehicles are increasingly used to reduce risk to personnel in complex environments, but they face a persistent weakness: exposure to small, hard-to-detect...
Remote OED Done By Robots
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams across all US military services will use the FLIR Centaur unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to assist in disarming improvised...
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Drones Could Soon Navigate Collapsed Buildings Without Slowing Down
Flying autonomous drones through unpredictable environments remains one of the biggest technical challenges in robotics. In confined spaces such as collapsed buildings, industrial sites,...
