Boeing has presented the first unmanned "Loyal Wingman" aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force. This aircraft is a drone equipped with AI and is designed to fly in coordination with crewed military airplanes. The new aircraft was designed and manufactured in Australia to be Boing's largest investment in a UAV outside of the US.…
Kamaz Unmanned Trucks Tested In The Arctic
The Kamaz group press service announced today that KAMAZ unmanned trucks were successfully tested at the East Messoyakhskoye field - Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Gydan Peninsula. The joint project of Gazprom Neft and the KAMAZ group of companies was implemented with the support of the government of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Arctic and the…
MoD Signed Acceptance Certificate of the First Unmanned “Orion” Complex
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation signed the acceptance certificate of the first unmanned long-range "Orion" complex. The complex consists of three devices. It was created by the efforts of the Kronstadt group. The chief designer of "Kronstadt" Nikolai Dolzhenkov said that "the technical part of accepting the transfer of the complex has been…
Russian Company Develops a Robot for Disinfection Duty
National Technological Initiative (NTI) Autonet announced today that it has developed a robotic modification intended to disinfect premises in the autonomous mode. This announcement comes in the midst of the dire need for solutions to fight the pandemic and that reduce the risk of human-to-human contact. About 10,000,000 Rubles ($135,000) were invested in this upgrade…
Unmanned Vehicles Against the Coronavirus
On the last day of 2019, Chinese authorities reported several cases of some “unusual pneumonia” in the city of Wuhan because of some unknown virus. The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) hit the entire world calling governments for immediate and very strict measures to control the spread of the pandemic. One of…
Kazakhstan Agrees To Make Baiterek Space Complex Unmanned
Kazakhstan backs Russia’s proposal for unmanned launches at the future Baiterek missile complex at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, says Askar Zhumagaliyev, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry. The minister explained that, «’unmanned’ means that cosmonauts will not go into space from this launch site, there will be no pilots.» «This complex was supposed to…
American and Russian Development of Military Unmanned Ground Vehicles
By Samuel Bendett, Associate Research Analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses' International Affairs Group, member of the Russia Studies Program The pace of development of unmanned systems for the military is picking up around the world, with many countries and even non-state actors fielding air, land and seabased models for current and future use.…