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The U.S. Navy’s Group Sail Exercise, held over a six-day period in Hawaiian military operating areas, featured one of the world’s most advanced Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) — the MQ-9B SeaGuardian® supplied by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). SeaGuardian conducted Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (MISR), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), …

The new jet-powered Banshee drones can fly with a speed of up to 400mph. Credit: LPhot Barry Swainsbury/UK Royal Navy. The UK Royal Navy (RN) has received new jet-powered Banshee Jet 80+ remotely-piloted air systems (RPAS) from defence technology company QinetiQ. Following the delivery of drones, the RN has formed …

By U.S. Navy | December 27, 2022 The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) recently demonstrated multiple unmanned systems in a first-of-its-kind mission to move supplies to ships at sea without the use of manned aircraft during an event at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in St. Inigoes, Maryland. …

By Laudia Sawer Tema, Oct. 30, GNA – The Ghana National Petroleum Authority (GNPC) has presented two Deltaquad Surveillance Drones to the Ghana Navy and the Ghana Boundary Commission to support monitoring activities within the country’s territorial boundaries.  Major General Emmanuel Kotia, the National Coordinator of the Ghana Boundary Commission, …

The long awaited deal for 30 drones from the US-based General Atomics is expected to be finalised soon. The deal which is pegged at under $3 billion will be government to government, through Foreign Military Sales (FMS) route. Financial Express Online has reported earlier this month that the deal is …

By Jonny Lupsha, Wondrium Staff Writer The U.S. Navy is ramping up production of unmanned watercraft. The military hopes that waterborne drones will counter the growing threat of China’s fleet. Drone usage is expanding in number and purpose. The U.S. Navy plans to use waterborne drones for the electronic surveillance …

China launched an unmanned ship, named Zhu Hai Yun, on May 18 that can be controlled remotely and navigate autonomously in open water and carry dozens of drones, submersibles, and other vessels for conducting ocean research, according to state-run Science and Technology Daily. The ship is 88.5 meters long, 14 …

Chinese agents are using drones to spy on the nuclear sub base in Faslane, say top brass. They believe Beijing spooks are behind 18 drone sightings above UK military sites and power stations in just two years. Faslane in Helensburgh, ­Dunbartonshire, is home to Trident ­submarines and nuclear ­weapons are …

Indianapolis, IN — Pierce Aerospace announced that it’s signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock and conducted maritime UAS Remote ID experimentation aboard the M80 Stiletto during the US Navy’s Thunderstorm 2021 experiment. The CRADA was executed for a three year period and …

A US warship fired at a drone that was terrorizing a Navy destroyer off the coast of California for weeks in 2019 after the Navy deployed special ‘ghostbuster’ teams to deal with them, new documents reveal.  The series of encounters with suspected UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles, in July 2019, …