Two GA-ASI Avengers Equipped with Lockheed Martin Legion Pods Autonomously Send Fused Air Threat Data to Command Center

On November 18, 2021, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) used two company-owned Avenger® Unmanned Aircraft Systems, each equipped with a Lockheed Martin Legion Pod®, to send long-range air threat data captured passively and fused by an advanced sensor algorithm to a Command ...

Elbit Systems Awarded a Follow-On Contract to Supply HermesTM 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems to the Brazilian Air Force

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that its Brazilian subsidiary, AEL Sistemas S.A. ("AEL"), was awarded a contract to supply additional HermesTM 900 UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) to the Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira “FAB”). The contract is in an amount that is not ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Announces New Mojave UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is unveiling a new Unmanned Aircraft System called Mojave, named for one of the harshest and most austere areas the world, where deadly rattlesnakes and horned lizards adapt to survive the extreme forces of nature.Mojave is based on the ...

AeroVironment Awarded $4 Million Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Foreign Military Sales Contract for U.S. Ally

 AeroVironment, Inc. a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems, today announced it received a $4,151,320 firm-fixed-price U.S. Department of Defense Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract award on Sept. 27, 2021 to provide Puma™ 3 AE and Wasp® AE small unmanned ...

GA-ASI Completes Series of System Level Tests for Protector

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has successfully completed key system-level tests for the new Protector RG Mk1 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). The Protector is the UK Royal Air Force’s version of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian®, which is GA-ASI’s latest model of RPA and is on track ...

U.S. Air Force Orders 15 Silent Arrow® Precision Guided Cargo Delivery Drones

Silent Arrow today announced the United States Air Force, through the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), has awarded the company a contract entitled “Guided Bundle Derivative of Silent Arrow® for Side Door and Palletized Swarm Deployment at High Speeds and Altitudes” effective November 12, ...

Vayu Aerospace Corporation, Advances to Phase 3 of our US Air Force SBIR

Alpine 4 Holdings, Inc. , a leading operator and owner of small market businesses, subsidiary Vayu Aerospace Corporation (Vayu), announced that it has successfully completed its US Air Force Phase 2 SBIR using Vayu's US-1 as an autonomous vehicle for the security of nuclear weapons. As a result, ...

Martin UAV Kicks Off MTUAS Increment 2 Effort with Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division

Shield AI, the defense-technology company using self-driving software to enable collaborative teams of unmanned aircraft to operate in GPS- and RF-denied environments, announced today that Martin UAV (a Shield AI company) kicked off its Multi-Mission Tactical UAS Increment 2 (Mi2) prototype effort ...