Military Tech

Pentagon’s Hycat Program Tests One Of The Fastest Aircraft Ever Built

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit and Hermeus completed a successful unmanned stores separation flight test under the HyCAT program. The test marked Quarterhorse’s fifth flight...

U.S. Army Evaluates Dropship, A Drone Built For Risky Resupply Missions

Pyka’s DropShip autonomous cargo aircraft flew nonstop missions during the Army’s Project Convergence Capstone 6 exercise this week. The aircraft transported MREs, medical equipment, and...

China Brings World’s First Sixth Generation Fighter Into Third Major Configuration: Progress Rate Unprecedented

Following the release of the first images showing China’s ultra-heavyweight sixth generation fighter program had brought its fifth flight prototype into flight testing, assessments...

U.S. Army Soldiers Test A Plug-And-Play System For Armed Drones

U.S. Army Sgt. Jonathan Simmons integrated the Picatinny Common Lethality Integration Kit onto a PDW C100 drone during Project Convergence Capstone 6 on July...

KIZILELMA Fires From Internal Weapons Bay

What Did KIZILELMA Fire From Its Internal Weapons Bay? KIZILELMA used two different Turkish precision-strike weapons during the July test sequence. The first firing involved ROKETSAN’s...

Second Prototype of Turkey’s Kaan Begins Taxi Trials

The Kaan’s second prototype is undergoing taxi testing, with Turkish officials indicating that the aircraft may begin flight testing before the end of 2026. One...

U.S. Army Tests Silent Power System For Its Command And Control Nodes

GM Defense’s EPIQ hybrid power system powered two 4th Infantry Division command nodes during Project Convergence Capstone 6 at Fort Irwin, California. The system sustained...

German-Made Spy Drone Gets New Defense Against Interceptor Threat

Quantum Systems updated its Vector reconnaissance drone with a yellow summer airframe and a rearward thermal camera to counter FPV interceptor drones in Ukraine. The...

U.S. Army Fires Hypersonic Warhead From A Cannon

Yuma Proving Ground successfully supported a full-scale, live-fire hypersonic warhead lethality test using a cannon-based launch system on an unspecified date reported July 30,...

UAE Defense Giant Tests Drone Built From A Kit Plane

EDGE Group posted flight test footage of its JERNAS-M unmanned surveillance aircraft on X. JERNAS-M can fly up to 20 hours for surveillance missions or...

Russia Configures World’s Heaviest Fighter for Expanded Glide Bomb Strikes

Russia has revealed new footage of a Su-34 strike fighter carrying four modified FAB-500T bombs fitted with upgraded Unified Gliding and Correction Module (UMPK)...

Apex Recordhunter becomes the world’s fastest electric drone

A four-rotor drone built by N3XT, the experimental arm of German company Quantum Systems, has reportedly reached 699 km/h (434 mph) in level flight....

U.S. military tests Hammer of the Gods in new sea trial

The U.S. Army, Navy and Space Force tested the maritime variant of the Hammer of the Gods electronic warfare system for the first time...

How DARPA plans to get nuclear power in the size of ‘AA battery’

WASHINGTON — The biggest roadblocks to having transportable nuclear power, according to DARPA program manager Tabitha Dodson, come down to heat and weight. “There’s an...

Sikorsky advances Nomad 100 VTOL aircraft into DARPA flight testing

STRATFORD, Conn. - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) effort to rapidly field a new generation of autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL)...

BAE Systems unveils Brontanax autonomous loyal wingman

BAE Systems unveiled a full-scale mock-up of its newly announced Brontanax autonomous strike plane at this year’s Farnborough International Air Show. It is billed...