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1 October

Ukraine’s Defense AI Center A1 uses computer vision to identify armored vehicles in battlefield imagery. Photo: Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

UK Gives Defense Firms Access to Ukraine Battlefield Data for Drone Swarm AI

British defense companies are getting access to a massive dataset built from Ukraine’s battlefield to develop AI models for autonomous drone swarms.

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30 September

Drones - Latest News, Features & Expert Opinion

Jodesz Gavilan

Uvision, Lendurai Team Up to Add AI to Military Drones

Israel’s Uvision is adding AI-enabled autonomy to its unmanned systems through a new partnership with Estonia’s Lendurai.

30 September

Drones - Latest News, Features & Expert Opinion

A Draganfly drone equipped with the Mjolnir multi-drop payload launcher during a live demonstration in a desert environment.

Jodesz Gavilan

Draganfly Raises $10M to Expand Drone Business

Draganfly has raised $10 million from two US investors as it expands its defense business and develops new unmanned systems for military customers.

29 September

Drones - Latest News, Features & Expert Opinion

Rojoef Manuel

British Drone Submarine Fires US Heavyweight Torpedo in Historic First

The US Navy and the UK Royal Navy have successfully fired an Mk 48 heavyweight anti-submarine and anti-surface torpedo from an experimental extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle, marking a historic first for allied undersea warfare.

29 September

Drones - Latest News, Features & Expert Opinion

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Isaiah Trujillo, an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) maintenance technician with Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 3, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 24, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), and Lance Cpl. Mario Mendoza, a UAS maintenance technician with VMU-1, MAG-13, 3rd MAW, recover a U.S. Marine Corps RQ-21A Blackjack aircraft during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-20 at Canon Air Defense Complex in Yuma, Arizona, Sept. 26, 2019. WTI is a seven week training event hosted by Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1), which emphasizes operational integration of the six functions of Marine Corps Aviation in support of a Marine Air Ground Task Force. WTI also provides standardized advanced tactical training and certification of unit instructor qualifications to support Marine Aviation training and readiness, and assists in developing and employing aviation weapons and tactics. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Adaezia Chavez)

Rojoef Manuel

Boeing, Gogo Test Starlink Rival for Military Drones

Boeing subsidiary Insitu and aviation communications provider Gogo Special Missions have combined and tested a high-speed satellite connectivity system on a Group 3 unmanned aerial system.

29 September

Drones - Latest News, Features & Expert Opinion

A vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial system. Photo: Rift

Rojoef Manuel

French Defense Firms to Build Sovereign Drone Network for Intel Ops

French companies Rift and ChapsVision have collaborated to integrate communications signal intelligence into a sovereign fleet of long-range unmanned aerial systems.

29 September

Exercises

Ethan M. Encarnacion

Hungarian Troops Test Drone Warfare Skills in First ‘Drone Pentathlon’

Drone pilots from the Hungarian Defence Forces faced off in the country’s first military pentathlon focused on unmanned aircraft skills.

29 September

Drones - Latest News, Features & Expert Opinion

Ethan M. Encarnacion

Skydio’s New Drone Puts an Asymmetrical Twist on Fixed-Wing Flight

Skydio’s first fixed-wing drone does not look quite like a conventional aircraft, and that is by design.

28 September

Drones - Latest News, Features & Expert Opinion

Dive-LD unmanned underwater vehicle. Photo: Anduril Industries

Rojoef Manuel

Iran to Reverse-Engineer Seized US Drone Submarine

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps plans to reverse-engineer a captured American unmanned underwater vehicle recovered near the Strait of Hormuz.

28 September

Americas