DARPA and US Air Force Fly AI-Piloted F-16 in Historic VENOM Test

Image: Lockheed Martin Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and Safran Helicopter Engines have signed an agreement to explore joint cooperation on current and future vertical lift platforms. Rich Benton, vice

Image: Helsing Helsing has unveiled the CA-1 Electronic Attack (CA-1EA), an AI-powered autonomous aircraft built for electronic warfare, at the International Aerospace Exhibition. The European defence technology company presented the

Image: GDLS-Canada Canada has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada (GDLS-Canada) a contract worth almost $2 billion for 190 additional Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs), as per a recent press statement.

Image: DARPA A U.S. Air Force F-16, modified as an autonomous flying testbed, has completed in-air testing under artificial intelligence control. The milestone marks a major step towards scalable combat

Image: Tekever TEKEVER has unveiled the AR6, a new family of autonomous heavy lift platforms, marking its entry into a market long dominated by short-range electric VTOL drones. The Portuguese

Image: Sikorsky’s Nomad 100 built for the DARPA EVADE program undergoes initial flight testing. Proprietary visuals concealed. Photo courtesy Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company. Sikorsky has completed initial ground and

Image: Shield AI Honeywell Aerospace and Shield AI have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a trusted autonomy software stack for both defence and commercial aircraft, as per a

Image: BAE Systems BAE Systems has unveiled Brontanax, the UK’s first uncrewed autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), as per a recent press statement. Engineers at the company’s Warton, Lancashire site

Image: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin and Venus Aerospace have signed a joint technology development agreement to advance Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) technology for long-range precision fires, as per a

Image: UK MoD Crown Copyright Canada has become the first Observer Nation of the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), the trilateral fighter jet initiative led by the UK, Italy and

Image: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin has released MORFIUS X-Rotor, an airborne High Power Microwave system that can down more than 50 hostile drones in a single flight. The launch responds

Image: BAE Systems BAE Systems has unveiled BlackThorn, a new multi-role modular warhead built for autonomous platforms, one-way effectors, counter-drone systems, missiles and uncrewed ground vehicles, as per a recent

Image: Royal Air Force RAF Lakenheath has hosted Combat Archer 2026, a major air-to-air weapons evaluation exercise. British and American fighter pilots trained together over Northern Scotland this month, certifying

Image: Anduril Industries Anduril has revealed Thunder, a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft designed to team with crewed aircraft in high-threat environments, according to a recent press statement from the

Image: Ukraine MoD Ukraine has contracted more than 22,000 unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for its Defence Forces so far in 2026, according to the Defence Procurement Agency DOT. That figure