Actualités
Orion 26 : L’armée de Terre a eu recours une capacité de renseignement spatial fournie par le finlandais ICEYE
Si elles bénéficient de renseignements d’origine image [ROIM] fournis par les trois satellites de la constellation CSO [Composante Spatiale Optique], les forces françaises ne disposent pas, en propre, de capacités en matière d’imagerie radar, dont l’un des intérêts...
Artillerie : L’armée arménienne a reçu ses premiers CAESAr
Si elle a signé, sous l’égide des États-Unis, un accord permettant à l’Azerbaïdjan d’accéder à son exclave du Nakhitchevan [via le projet TRIPP pour Trump Road Initiative for International Peace and Prosperity] en passant par son territoire, l’Arménie demeure...
Rheinmetall, Deutsche Telekom Partner on Drone Defense ‘Shield’
German arms maker Rheinmetall and telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom plan to jointly develop a “defense shield” to protect against drones and sabotage, the companies said Monday. Germany and other European countries have faced a surge in acts of suspected...
DARPA Wants Drone Swarms Packed into Unassuming Containers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking for concepts for drones with a high degree of autonomous operation, as well as remotely-operated containerized systems to launch, recover, and otherwise support them. What DARPA is really interested in is...
New Mobile C-UAS High-Power Microwave System for Drone Swarm Defense & Rapid Tracking
ThinKom Solutions has launched Alecto, a mobile high-power microwave system utilizing patented VICTS technology to provide fire-on-the-move capabilities against evolving drone swarms for military and homeland security applications ThinKom Solutions has expanded its...
Estonia Builds $8.2M Drone Testing Lab to Speed Defense Tech Development
Estonia is moving to close one of Europe’s key defense testing gaps with a new drone and electronic warfare laboratory designed to measure how systems are detected, disrupted, and hardened in realistic combat conditions. Metrosert, the country’s applied research...
Airbility Signs Strategic MoU with Germany’s Schübeler onEDF Propulsion Technology for eVTOL Platforms
Partners to jointly develop next-generation EDF propulsion systems and pursue Korea–Germany international R&D programs Airbility Inc. (“Airbility”), an advanced air mobility company based in the Republic of Korea, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of...
European Defence Agency Launches Kamikaze Drone Challenge
The European Defence Agency (EDA) has launched a competition to test next-generation single-use unmanned aerial systems in realistic combat conditions as European militaries push to expand drone warfare capabilities. Called the “Sentinel Strike Challenge,” the...
Naval Group a livré des prototypes de «ruches» pour essaims de drones au 1er Régiment d’Infanterie de Marine
L’an passé, lors de l’exercice «Hedgehog 25», organisé par l’Otan en Estonie, le 1er Régiment d’Infanterie de Marine [RIMa] se distingua grâce à une innovation opérationnelle : l’Escadron de drones de chasse. Élaborée deux ans plus tôt par quatre de ses officiers,...
The state of alternative propulsion aircraft? Part 10.
In our series on the state of alternative propulsion projects, we are looking at different hydrogen-fueled propulsion systems. Hydrogen can either be processed chemically in a fuel cell to produce electrical power, which is then coupled to an electrical motor system,...
