Turkey Orders 100 Expendable USVs for Naval Swarm Strikes
The Turkish Navy is procuring 100 expendable kamikaze USVs from three competing teams – Aselsan/Ares (Tufan), STM/Yonca (Yaktu), and Havelsan/Sefine – for autonomous swarm strike...
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Perennial Autonomy Wins $500M Pentagon Counter-Drone Deal
The Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401) has awarded Perennial Autonomy a three-year contract with a $500 million ceiling to deliver AI-enabled counter-drone systems...
Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Strike on Moscow Oil and Tech Sites
Ukrainian forces launched approximately 600 unmanned aerial vehicles across 14 Russian regions on the night of May 16–17, in what was the largest Ukrainian drone...
US Pursues Low-Cost Interceptors and Lasers Against Shahed Swarms
The United States and its Gulf allies are reportedly negotiating the procurement of interceptor drones and accelerating the deployment of directed-energy weapons to counter Iranian...
NESCOM Shahpar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
The Shahpar drone is an indigenously developed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by Pakistan, designed for reconnaissance and surveillance missions.
South Africa’s CSIR Raises Possibility of Wingman Drone Research
South Africa’s government-owned think-tank, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), proposed studying drone wingmen for the South African Air Force’s (SAAF) Gripen fleet.
UPDATE: Crashed UAV in Pakistan was undergoing flight tests
Wreckage from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crash in Mianwali (Pakistan) suggests that the Pakistani armed forces are evaluating the Chinese Wing Loong.
A look at loitering munitions (aka kamikaze drones)
What role would ‘loitering munitions’ such as the Israeli Hero-30, American Switchblade, and Chinese CH-901 play in the modern battlefield?
Background on the Burraq Armed UAV
By Bilal Khan The Pakistani military recently announced that they had officially begun using the Burraq armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as part of its...
Pakistani Burraq UAV Kills 3 ‘High Profile’ Targets
By Bilal Khan On 07 September Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) (the Pakistan Military’s PR wing) confirmed that the armed forces had deployed the Burraq, a...