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Royal Navy to consider the possibility of implementing MQ-9B SkyGuardian into service

28 May 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

The UK Ministry of Defence recently confirmed that the General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is being assessed as a potential carrier-based airborne early warning (AEW) platform for the Royal Navy. Ben Obese-Jecty, […]

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Royal Navy UAV helicopter tracking smugglers and drug traffickers in the Middle East

3 March 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Peregrine is a Royal Navy (RN) variant of the three-metres-long (10 ft) civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) rotorcraft S-100 Camcopter, made by Schiebel company from Austria. The RN-specific variant is equipped with the tailored UK […]

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Twilight of crewed combat aircraft? Perhaps in centuries, expert says.

18 December 2024 Jacek Domański

At the end of November 2024, the tech guru and entrepreneur Elon Musk – and probably the future head of the new US Department of Government Efficiency – posted a series of messages on X […]

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Bayraktar TB3 UCAV makes the aviation history by operation from a short-runway vessel

24 November 2024 Jacek Domański

On 19th November 2024, Bayraktar TB3 unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) completed its open-sea shipboard testing programme, according to statement released by the Baykar company, manufacturer of the aircraft. Within the test, the Turkish UCAV […]

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Serbia choses Repellent to reduce the mosquito nuisance

18 February 2024 Jacek Domański

On 14th February 2024, the Serbian Armed Forces for the first time officially disclosed to public its latest acquirement – Repellent electronic warfare system. That Russian-made weapon address the increasing threat from light unmanned aerial […]

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CAIG Wing Loong I / Chengdu GJ-1

28 February 2023 Jacek Domański

CAIG Wing Loong I / Chengdu GJ-1 (mock-up aircraft for exhibition purposes), static display at 13th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS 2017, Zhukovsky, July 2017. The Wing Loong I is a Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE)-class […]

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REPMUS22 and DYMS22 – two NATO experimental exercises

13 October 2022 Jacek Domański

Last month, two interesting NATO exercises were held at Maritime Operational Experimentation Centre near Troia, Portugal. Both were focused on testing maritime uncrewed systems and increasing their interoperability within the Allied forces. The first of […]

MILITARY AVIATION

First Global Hawk UAV arrived to Japan

14 March 2022 Jacek Domański

On 12th March 2022, the first Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft intended for the Japanese Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) has landed at Misawa air force base. That UAV is the first out of […]

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Rostec and Russian Post launched UAV delivery tests in Chukotka

3 August 2021 Jacek Domański

In July of this year, Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) and Russian Post has concluded an agreement in regard to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for delivering cargo within the Chukotka Autonomous District. […]

MILITARY AVIATION

More UCAVs for the Russian armed forces in 2021

4 March 2021 Jacek Domański

In the end of February 2021, the Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu has visited the JSC Kronstadt company, a specialized military manufacturer being the leader of Russian unmanned aircraft industry. This visit was broadly […]

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