The two companies say they want to integrate and further enhance the Rafael Sky Shield system by combining it with Hensoldt’s domestically developed Kalaetron Attack jammer and then integrate the system on German Eurofighters.

The RQ-28A is the Army’s first quadrotor acquired as a program of record in the first tranche of the Short-Range Reconnaissance (SRR) contract. 

Top Russian government officials are reacting to a lack of sufficient uncrewed air vehicles in their country’s military arsenal, saying they are an “urgent need.” 

A new software application designed to steer the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift fleet through holes in an enemy’s advanced air defenses is ready for flight demonstrations, Northrop Grumman says.

U.S. Army officials said on Oct. 11 that they will soon launch a competition for industry to supply a batch of contractor-owned, contractor-operated business jets equipped with a suite of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads. 

DARPA has launched its Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay program, an effort to demonstrate the long-distance wireless transmission of energy using lasers and UAVs as relays.

Elbit Systems confirmed that it has secured a contract with the Royal Thai Navy for its Hermes 900 uncrewed aerial system.

The demonstrations are a key step in Lockheed Martin's plans to develop private 5G ultra wideband communications technology for military applications.