Category: Defence

Boeing engineers and researchers at a US university have demonstrated technology that allows unmanned drones to function like a swarm of insects, acting in unison with little direct human supervision. The swarm technology was tested by Boeing and researchers from Johns Hopkins University on a pair of ScanEagle drones in Oregon during June, Boeing revealed

Australia is close to a deal to sell six C-130H Hercules airlifters to Indonesia, officials in that country have confirmed. The price tag for the aircraft, which the RAAF is retiring at the end of the year, was said to be roughly US$15 million each. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test program has reached what Lockheed Martin calls a significant milestone by successfully dropping a dummy bomb into the Atlantic Ocean. The release of an inert 1000 lb GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) was the first time an F-35 has released a weapon in flight. The mission was carried

Boeing’s Unmanned Little Bird H-6U helicopter successfully performed 14 autonomous takeoffs and landings from a ship during test flights in July in another milestone for robot flight. The tests, conducted from a private ship off the coast of Florida, used a commercial off-the-shelf takeoff-and-landing system combined with Unmanned Little Bird’s automated flight control system. Two