drones

Compact camera drones are great for creating action-packed content, but they can't do double duty as a pocket gimbal cam as well. Until now. The HoverAir Versa combines a pocket-sized three-axis gimbal camera with snap-on caged drone wings.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? In aviation circles, the debate is often which came first: the military or civilian variant? Case in point: Archer Aviation's announcement at Farnborough of Halo, the civilian counterpart to the Thunder autonomous attack aircraft.

I know, I know. This product sounds like it solves one of those informercial-ly non-problems. But hear me out: the Heone-X is actually kind of cool if you do a lot of camping. This drone hovers above your campsite to illuminate it for hours.

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 as Britain's first home-designed uncrewed autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

As F-35 fighters roared overhead in display, Lockheed Martin unveiled its MORFIUS counter-drone at this year's Farnborough International Airshow. It uses a directed energy weapon to take out over 50 hostile drones per flight.

Even aircraft carriers are joining the drone age. Elbit Systems has unveiled a concept to convert standard commercial merchant ships into modular carriers capable of launching and retrieving its Hermes 650 Spark fixed-wing unmanned aircraft.

This year's Farnborough International Air Show was the venue for a major announcement by Anduril. The company has developed Thunder, a group 5 autonomous tilt-rotor attack helicopter designed as a Loyal Wingman for combat choppers.

In a US first, the US Air Force has successfully fired a missile from a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Loyal Wingman. Conducted in collaboration with Anduril Industries, the YFQ-44A drone launched an AIM-120 missile at a digital target.

In a world first, the Royal Air Force airdropped an autonomous drone boat from a military transport aircraft. Part of the Royal Navy's Project Beehive, a Kraken Technologies K3 SCOUT vehicle was parachuted from an Airbus A400M cargo plane over the North Sea.

The US has racked up another historic drone warfare first as US Central Command (CENTCOM) announces that a trio of Corsair autonomous surface boats successfully carried out a simultaneous attack against the Bandar Abbas Naval Base in Iran.

British engineer Stephen Wallis has just shattered a speed barrier with his radio-controlled car, called Mach Reaper. His RC car passed 250 mph twice, breaking his own record within a two-week span and becoming the fastest on Earth.

On July 3, the Royal Navy applied lessons learned from Ukraine as it successfully launched a strike-capable drone from a vessel underway. Part of Exercise Neptune Reach, the XV Patrick Blackett catapulted a Nyan drone off the south coast of England.