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The American-made Teal 2 quadcopter and Edge 130 Blue, a VTOL fixed-wing system, are both on the Defense Innovation Unit’s Blue List for acquisition by U.S. forces.
By Breaking DefenseMILSATCOM for the most critical no-fail missions
With multiple nuclear-capable threats and space itself being a contested domain, assured and protected MILSATCOM are more critical than ever before.
There’s a new battlespace called “air-ground littoral” where quadcopters and fixed-wing VTOLs now dominate.
By Barry Rosenberg
A SOCOM spokesperson told Breaking Defense, “Our next step is to purchase limited quantities of the Rogue 1 for further test and evaluation in support of a fielding decision and follow-on Low-Rate Initial Production in late calendar year 2025.”
By Andrew White
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At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
By Israel Aerospace Industries
“There’s a transformative vertical lift industry that’s emerging and we need to be partners in it,” said AFWERX Director Col. Elliot Leigh.
By Michael Marrow
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A hybrid, tandem wing, multi-domain and multi-role UAS capability, STRIX could be used for a variety of missions including air to ground strike against hostile targets and persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
By BAE Systems
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A solution rises for Middle East nations that demand persistent ISR for border and maritime security
A VTOL system with no stick or rudder plus beyond line-of-sight ISR meets the demands of the UAE and its Middle East neighbors.
By Breaking Defense
Autonomy changes everything about combat engineering
Sending robotic vehicles into the breach saves lives by removing humans from one of the most dangerous places on the battlefield.
IAI senior official Moshe Levy told Breaking Defense the company is experimenting with several designs to aid ground units in combat.
By Arie Egozi
The two Israeli firms are looking for a partner to create a joint venture that will allow them to sell to the US military.
By Arie Egozi
The “Agility Prime” event next week will kick off with speeches by Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett, Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and Air Force acquisition head Will Roper.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Now is the perfect time to make Jetson’s cars real,” says Air Force acquisition head Will Roper.
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s election is mostly good news for the Marine Corps — but there are a couple of important caveats. Both his campaign promise to increase Marine combat battalions by 50 percent and his public lambasting of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could cause problems for Marine Corps leaders as they struggle to explain…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
When V-22 Ospreys full of Marines take to the skies 10 years from now, they could be escorted by armed high-speed drones called MUX. That’s become the Marine Corps plan because drones let you do things differently. Doing without a pilot inside makes it possible to build unorthodox aircraft that would work poorly carrying tender humans. You…
By Richard Whittle
A bevy of new vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft conceived to take the military beyond the speed, range and altitude limits of helicopters are scheduled to fly over the next two years. None looks more like science fiction becoming science fact than a sort of flying candy crane formerly known as “Transformer.” What is now…
By Richard Whittle
