The AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY program aims to develop a long endurance, vertical takeoff and landing unmanned air system. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

Strategic bombers have long been among the largest and most powerful aircraft ever built, ...

DARPA has tapped six companies of varying sizes to create a drone that can take off and land vertically from a ship and then fly forward for long distances, called ANCILLARY. Sikorsky's pitch for the ...

Griffon’s Valiant hybrid-electric VTOL uncrewed aircraft has been flown under a U.S. Army rapid prototyping effort. Credit: David Hylton, U.S. Army DARPA has selected nine companies for the initial ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week said it selected six companies to continue in the risk reduction and component testing phase of its program to develop vertical take-off ...

Less than a year after proving the flight efficiency and reliability of a novel rotor blown wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS), Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company ...

Credit: Aurora's Orion UAV prototype is being transferred from the U.S. Air Force to the Coast Guard for operational trials over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight ...

The partnership combines an advanced drone operations platform with 3-hour flight time drones, enabling agencies to expand and enhance both Drone as First Responder (DFR) and tactical operations ...