US UAV and UCAV Technology

[bobbymike]

'Bigger, faster, longer': As market grows, loitering munition makers eye next evolution - Breaking Defense

“The loitering munition market is going to evolve certainly,” Rafael's Roman Palaria told Breaking Defense. “I personally believe that it's a new market that is building up very quickly.”

breakingdefense.com

 

[bobbymike]

Mojave STOL

All-terrain takeoff and landing. Double the firepower. A bold new aircraft, Mojave, joins the Predator-series family of UAS, bringing forward a unique set of capabilities ideal for armed overwatch, attack, and armed reconnaissance missions.

www.ga-asi.com

 

[X-39]

‘Wildly Successful' Skyborg Will Become Program of Record but Won’t Stop Developing S&T - Air Force Magazine

Skyborg, the Air Force program to build an artificial intelligence system for unmanned aircraft, is helping the collaborative combat aircraft effort.

www.airforcemag.com

 

[aonestudio]

Airman accelerates change through persistence, develops tool for RPAs

Master Sgt. Bridget Carroll reduced cargo taken on an MQ-1 Predator alert package with the creation of a “bird-in-a-box” later known as the Digital Aircraft Link Emulator, or DALE.

www.af.mil

 

[X-39]

Lockheed investing $100M into F-35 controlled combat drones under 'Project Carrera' - Breaking Defense

“The underlying behaviors, the autonomy, the way in which the rest of the ecosystem works together — that is exactly what we want to uncover in these series of experiments, to understand how you would actually field this type of capability," said a Lockheed executive.

breakingdefense.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

General Atomics, Kratos highlight progress toward AI-driven combat aircraft

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) and Kratos have highlighted progress with autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UASs).

www.flightglobal.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

U.S. Navy Wants Its Carrier Air Wing 60% Uncrewed | Aviation Week Network

Navy leaders are setting requirements for Collaborative Combat Aircraft to increase the radius of ships, following the MQ-25’s lead.

aviationweek.com

Why do I get a strong sense of impending doom here?

 

[yasotay]

U.S. Navy Wants Its Carrier Air Wing 60% Uncrewed | Aviation Week Network

Navy leaders are setting requirements for Collaborative Combat Aircraft to increase the radius of ships, following the MQ-25’s lead.

aviationweek.com

Why do I get a strong sense of impending doom here?

Because it is in the Navy Modernization Plan. To use FM von Molke's much paraphrased maxim; "No plan survives contact."

 

[Grey Havoc]

Collins demos risk-assessment and uncrewed-wingman control software

The company's Operational Reasoner algorithmic software is meant to help pilots of sixth-generation fighters assess the likelihood of mission success and more-seamlessly control uncrewed aircraft.

www.flightglobal.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

AI-Piloted Concepts Emerge As U.S. Air Force Ponders Options | Aviation Week Network

U.S. defense industry embraces flexibility and diversity in aircraft design for a future fleet of proposed Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

aviationweek.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Thought this was posted already, did I imagine it? From last June:

DARPA looks to leverage laser-equipped KC-46 and KC-135 tankers to recharge drones wirelessly - The Aviation Geek Club

DARPA looks to leverage laser-equipped KC-46 and KC-135 tankers to recharge drones wirelessly

theaviationgeekclub.com

 

[TomcatViP]

@Grey Havoc : already posted (but probably not the exact same link) and debated, I am pretty sure yes... But where exactly in the Secret Universe?!!

 

[bobbymike]

‘Proximity’ Ammo Takes Out Enemy Drones

‘Proximity’ Ammo Takes Out Enemy Drones

www.nationaldefensemagazine.org

 

[Forest Green]

General Atomics developing hybrid-electric engine for stealthy 'MQ-Next' drone design - Breaking Defense

“We believe that GA is going to pioneer a completely new way to propel airborne air breathing [vehicles]," said Mike Atwood, the firm’s senior director of advanced programs.

breakingdefense.com

 

[bobbymike]

How the Army wants to build its 'wolf pack' drone waves - Breaking Defense

New autonomy and network technology could enable a new form of high-intensity, low-altitude tactics.

breakingdefense.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Air Force must build trust to add drone wingmen, report says

The Air Force is focused on manned-unmanned teaming as the future of air combat. How human pilots will control drone wingmen must be ironed out.

www.defensenews.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Via Tank-Net:

Light Vehicles Bristling With Suicide Drones Were Trending At This Year's Army Convention

New configurations from AM General and Flyer Defense underscore growing interest in vehicles capable of deploying swarms of loitering munitions.

www.thedrive.com

 

[Forest Green]

You know when UAVs have a range and endurance quoted, how does that work exactly? Is that the endurance at that range, which would mean the total range could be far more?

 

[Josh_TN]

You know when UAVs have a range and endurance quoted, how does that work exactly? Is that the endurance at that range, which would mean the total range could be far more?

Probably differs from manufacturer to manufacturer, but that would be my interpretation.

 

[dan_inbox]

Is that the endurance at that range, which would mean the total range could be far more?

In our wonderful free-enterprise western world, I would use the ancients' wisdom: caveat emptor.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise in the doc, I'd fully trust it to be either/or. Just like the publicized armament loads on fighters.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Army seeks industry help on stratospheric drones, sensor payloads - Breaking Defense

Michael Monteleone, director of the Army's assured PNT and space cross functional team, said that the service is interested in high altitude platforms as a capability for "bridging between an aerial layer and space."

breakingdefense.com

 

[bobbymike]

COTS anti-drone tech

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/s1CcwK2R95s?feature=share

 

[Grey Havoc]

Lockheed, IBM’s Red Hat team up to speed AI development for Pentagon

The U.S. Department of Defense is increasingly interested in artificial intelligence and machine learning, both on and off the battlefield.

www.defensenews.com

 

[aonestudio]

GA-ASI Demonstrates Air-to-Air Laser Communications

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) successfully completed an air-to-air laser communication link between GA-ASI’s Laser Airborne Communication (LAC) terminals integrated onto two company-owned King Air aircraft.

www.ga-asi.com

 

[bobbymike]

Optimus’ little brother

Air Force launches Autonomy Prime program in hunt for new tech

AFWERX wants to use this Prime program to find uses for autonomous technology beyond flying drones.

www.defensenews.com

 

[aonestudio]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYcq_pzLsjA

Sikorsky and DARPA Demonstrate Future Battlefield Logistics Missions with Autonomous Utility Helicopter

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and DARPA conducted three flights at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground to demonstrate resupply and casualty evacuation by an autonomous utility helicopter.

www.lockheedmartin.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bCZA39ddzg

 

[TomcatViP]

There is a lot of cheap internet music that are only made out of a patchwork of sampleab from old soundtracks.

 

[TomS]

The Bighorn C-UAS system:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1588153716959494144

View: https://twitter.com/FredSchultz35/status/1588153716959494144

 

[Grey Havoc]

Air Force launches Autonomy Prime program in hunt for new tech

AFWERX wants to use this Prime program to find uses for autonomous technology beyond flying drones.

www.defensenews.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Drone-killing Vampires due in Ukraine next year, Pentagon says

The U.S. is aiming to send Ukraine the “Vampire” counter-drone system by mid-2023, with a contract award expected within months, a Pentagon spokesman said.

www.defensenews.com

Curious. They were supposed to have dispatched some already but it seems to have gotten bogged down somewhere.

The Pentagon on Aug. 24 announced it would send the system, a laser-guided-missile launcher that can quickly be installed in a civilian truck bed, as part of a larger arms package. But despite Russia’s expanded use of Iranian-made kamikaze drones to target Ukraine’s power stations and other key infrastructure, the Pentagon hasn’t yet approved a contract to deliver the system.

 

[Forest Green]

$22k a pop, pretty efficient way of killing drones.

 

[Kat Tsun]

The Bighorn C-UAS system:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1588153716959494144

View: https://twitter.com/FredSchultz35/status/1588153716959494144

US Army Veterinary Corps be like

 

[TomcatViP]

And it's (probably) the only C-UAS system that you can roast at the end of its shell life.

 

[Grey Havoc]

US Army demonstrates Lockheed Martin Q-53 MMR Multi-Mission Radar in counter-UAS mission | Defense News October 2022 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2022 | Archive News year

US Army demonstrates Lockheed Martin Q-53 MMR Multi-Mission Radar in counter-UAS mission

www.armyrecognition.com

 

[Kat Tsun]

And it's (probably) the only C-UAS system that you can roast at the end of its shell life.

Finally the BCT will be able to sustain itself for longer than a business week in the field.

 

[aonestudio]

GA-ASI, SES and Hughes Team Up to Demonstrate NextGen SATCOM on MQ-9B SkyGuardian

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), SES and Hughes Network Systems (HUGHES) worked together to successfully demonstrate multi-orbit satellite communications (SATCOM) using a GA-ASI-supplied MQ-9B SkyGuardian® Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA).

www.ga-asi.com

 

[TomcatViP]

Amazon begins drone deliveries in California and Texas

Amazon Prime Air wants to deliver packages within 60 minutes.

arstechnica.com

 

[X-39]

General Atomics Trials AI-Driven Avenger Drone With Combat Missions

General Atomics has conducted a flight test to further validate the firm’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft system in El Mirage, California.

www.thedefensepost.com

 

[bobbymike]

Navy's Huge Expeditionary Sea Bases Could Become Drone Motherships

Among the proposed modifications is a rotary launch-and-recovery system for large unmanned underwater vehicles and a drone flight deck.

www.thedrive.com