Service leaders are looking to find industry solutions for short/vertical takeoff and landing (S/VOTL) drones, ones that don’t require a runway, in the Group 4 or above category.
“We’re not trying to blow up the Death Star. You can blind the optics, start fires, melt plastic, disrupt targeting, overheat electronics. All of that is possible now,” said General Atomics spokesperson C. Mark Brinkley.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
The companies intend for their jointly developed and produced version of the Gray Eagle to first fly in 2027.
In an age defined by rapid technological evolution and operational complexity, GA-ASI’s Modernized Gray Eagle® ER and Gray Eagle® STOL remain the gold standard.
The Nomad 100, a Group 3 UAS, will undergo flight testing in the coming months, an executive said. The Group 4 Nomad is still in the works.
From Europe to the Middle East and beyond, the events of our era teach a tough but important lesson for the U.S. and its allies: Readiness is essential.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
After the Army Transformation Initiative shook up drone plans, the service wants a replacement for older Gray Eagles in 2028 and the Shadow in 2026, according to a service official.
“A lot of the reasons that we're making decisions are because of political change. That's the reality of our governmental system," said Maj. Gen. Clair Gill. "And so we might be moving down a path for a couple years, and things change. The world changes. Wars happen.”
"All of these parochial interests and all of these lobbyists that crawl around this building and crawl around Congress, they have succeeded for far too long, and so the first thing is, we are going to start to cut the things we don't want or need," Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told reporters.
Responsible powers need the newest and best tools in order to assure their own security, their international commitments and to preserve the allies’ goal for peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
“We'll be demonstrating this capability overseas,” David Alexander told Breaking Defense, adding that the demos could take place in Europe as early as “next month.”
Gray Eagle 25M supports soldiers across multiple domains. It's precisely what the Army needs.
Army National Guard units are an essential part of the Total Force. They need the same equipment, too.
"I'd say that the ground-based air defense was the key in this war, and it's still the key [moving forward],” said a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter squadron commander who goes by the callsign “Moonfish.”