US high-technology company Anduril displayed its Roadrunner autonomous air vehicle for the first time in Australia at Land Forces 2024. The company says Roadrunner is a radically new, recoverable, cost-effective kinetic interceptor for ground-based air defence. The modular twin-jet powered autonomous…
Three Australian companies will each build 100 general purpose Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) under contracts worth a total of $6.6 million awarded under the Sovereign UAS Challenge being managed by Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA). AMSL Aero, Boresight and Grabba…
Perth-based companies Aurora Labs Limited and Innovaero Pty Limited will collaborate to develop a 3D printed gas turbine for aerospace applications. The first use for it will be in an Innovaero Uncrewed Air System (UAS), the recently launched OWL-X. EX2…
Defence will invest over $100 million acquiring 110 ‘drones’ from two Australian manufacturers of lightweight surveillance and reconnaissance Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS) and augment the ADF’s existing stock of UASs. The Quantum-Systems Vector 2-in-1and SYPAQ Systems CorvoX were trialled along…
Sydney-based Quickstep Holdings has received a $925,000 grant from the Commonwealth Department of Science, Industry & Resources (DSIR) under the Moon to Mars initiative, As part of an overall $1.3 million development program, this DSIR grant will fund the acquisition…
The Australian Army and US Marine Corps have conducted a joint trial of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled autonomous uncrewed systems at Marine Corps base Quantico in the USA. fly over Northern Virginia. The trial saw an Uncrewed Air System (UAS)…
Defence industry journal Australian Defence Magazine reports that an unspecified Special Operations Unit of the Australian Army will put the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) first loitering munition - the Innovaero OWL - into service later this year. The magazine’s report…
Some of the capabilities and one of the systems selected for accelerated fielding as part of the first tranche of the US Replicator initiative are already in US military service. The Replicator initiative, which was launched last year by the…
The US Defense Advanced research Projects Agency, DARPA, has down-selected six companies from the original nine contenders who will advanced to the next stage of its ANCILLARY program. Phase 1b of ANCILLARY, which stands for AdvaNced aircraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And…
Toulouse-based Airbus has finalised the acquisition of Bingen, Washington-based Uncrewed Air System (UAS) manufacturer Aerovel and its Flexrotor UAS in a move to strengthen its portfolio of tactical unmanned solutions. Flexrotor is a small tactical UAS designed for Intelligence, Surveillance,…