Air Force
XQ-67A: US Air Force tests mission systems and beyond-line-of-sight data links on its autonomous aircraft
The Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Combat Command flew the XQ-67A autonomous aircraft in Nevada under Demon APE, testing…
Topic
Autonomous systems
Defense Industry
Corsair: the Saronic autonomous vessel the Hellenic Navy wants, the evaluation and the request for 30+ craft
Saronic’s Corsair autonomous surface vessel passed in the October 28 parade after Greece completed its evaluation and asked the US…
Drones
Pentagon’s Project Agincourt writes to industry as it builds a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command
The team preparing the Pentagon's planned four-star Autonomous Warfare Command has issued an open letter to industry and the joint…
Land Forces
DARPA tests four autonomous ground vehicles in live-fire exercise at Fort Knox, with a human approving every engagement
Four autonomous ground vehicles hunted simulated targets as a team at Fort Knox on 15 October, in a DARPA test…
Asia-Pacific
Naval Postgraduate School selects nine Digital Trident II projects for Pacific challenges
The Naval Postgraduate School has chosen nine research projects, from a counter-drone interceptor prototype to space awareness and unmanned-systems logistics,…
Drones
UN disarmament institute chief warns AI is on track to crowd out human decision-making in warfare
UNIDIR director Robin Geiss says AI is already widely used in military operations and shortens the time between spotting and…
Europe
Saab, FMV and the Swedish Armed Forces launch a large uncrewed underwater vehicle demonstrator
Less than a year after contract award, Saab, FMV and the Swedish Armed Forces have launched a demonstrator for a…
Defense Industry
Sikorsky unveils Nomad 100 Fast Pack, a containerised kit of four VTOL drones
Sikorsky has introduced the Nomad 100 Fast Pack, a 20-foot container holding four VTOL drones, mission software and support kit.…
Drones
“Pyrpolitis”: the Hellenic Navy’s new Greek-made unmanned vessel, an Anduril underwater drone on show, and Dendias’s announcements
The “Pyrpolitis”, an unmanned surface vessel designed, developed and built entirely by the Hellenic Navy, was the star of the…
Military & Defense
US Army creates FASCOM to accelerate autonomous systems by 2028
An October 1 memorandum directs the creation of FASCOM, changes to Army formations and staffing, and priority autonomous systems fielding…
Technology
General Atomics unveils Wildfire UAS for massed long-range operations
General Atomics has unveiled Wildfire, an autonomous, attrition-tolerant unmanned aircraft proposed for the U.S. Air Force’s Massed Modular Aircraft competition.