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The U.S. Department of Defense has added the Skydio X10D drone to the BlueUAS Cleared List giving US agencies the Authority to Operate and validating the DoD’s trust in Skydio’s technology

The JEY-CUAS project involves companies and research centers from all over the continent and is evaluating a wide range of anti-drone technologies

Built to operate within an autonomous fleet, AeroVironment’s (AV) Wildcat VTOL UAS will be further developed as part of DARPA’s ANCILLARY initiative

The RIPSAW M5 offers unprecedented endurance and revolutionary capabilities and its hybrid engine allows for quiet maneuvers and increased reliability

More than 500 visitors from around the globe converged in Denmark for the International Drone Show 2024, thought to be the largest event of its kind in Northern Europe

Here’s our round-up of the five most read articles on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com this week

Lockheed Martin company Sikorsky is conducting flight tests to refine its VTOL UAS, a twin proprotor ‘rotor blown wing’ configuration designed for ISR and long endurance flight

The demonstration showcased Skylark Labs' Aerial Reconnaissance & Elimination System (ARIES) system and its advanced capabilities in detection and tracking rogue drones

The Airbus-backed Eurodrone, a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAS with ISTAR capability, has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR)

The low-drag, fan-in-wing X-plane from Aurora Flight Sciences will begin a preliminary design review, integrating a blended wing body platform and combining VTOL with impressive speed

The German Heron TP (GHTP) drone is equipped with optical, imaging radar reconnaissance, and signals intelligence (SIGINT) capabilities, and enables the armed forces to expand its strategic and tactical capabilities

The companies are collaborating on the development of an uncrewed military vehicle intended for advanced terrain environments and designed without space for a driver

Soaring’s VTOL UAS, Gabriel, completed 40 tactical drills to resupply U.S. Army platoons with class I and class V supplies including food and ammunition, all carried out at night

The U.S. Navy’s Maritime Expeditionary Standoff Response (MESR) will receive the MK20 Defender from VideoRay, a highly robust, man-portable, expeditionary ROV

Elroy Air and Leidos will trial the Chaparral hVTOL cargo aircraft system at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona to demonstrate autonomous aerial resupply capabilities

RAD will deliver its autonomous detection technology for Nightingale’s drones, working together to offer low-cost, active patrols for large areas with little supporting infrastructure

The Humanoid Engageable Kinetic Training Robot (HEKTR) 3.4 Trackless Mobile Infantry Target (TMIT) from MVP Robotics can mesh with asynchronous uncrewed vehicles by using Doodle Labs’ Mesh Rider Radios

Selected by the United States Army for a CHS contract, the backpack portable Vesper sUAS by Vantage Robotics features unique magnet-attached swappable propellers and provides field operators with extended flight time, low light performance, and minimum counter detection

The Rogue 1 vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) from Teledyne FLIR Defense has a flight time of 30 minutes and burst speeds of more than 70mph

The Red Cat Futures Initiative (RFI) is an independent, industry-wide consortium of robotics and autonomous systems partners dedicated to putting the most advanced UAS into the hands of warfighters

Kraken’s K3 SCOUT USV, K4 MANTA USSV and K5 KRAKEN Gunship are set to be outfitted with BlueHalo’s autonomous innovations and C-UAS systems in order to develop next-generation uncrewed vessels

Volarious and Vantage Robotics have released the V-Line Pro Vesper, a tethered system for the Vantage Vesper that delivers unlimited flight time through hot swappable battery design and features the V-Assist app

The Special Warfighter Assistive Robotic Machine (SWARM) drone technology will offer a new, much-needed capability, a highly versatile nano drone equipped with smart payload and interoperability across multiple systems

At both GPEC in Germany, and SOF week in Florida, find out how Elsight’s Halo platform supports better tactical decisions in the field by delivering real-time situational awareness via video and data

Overwatch Group will launch unique drone technology at SOF 2024, and will showcase its advanced unmanned system and munitions technologies, including a pioneering coaxial drone

Doodle Labs has partnered with Red Cat to deliver its Helix Mesh Rider® radios for Teal Drones' systems, combining forces to pass field testing for electronic warfare (EW) in Ukraine