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BAE Systems Unveils Brontanax CCA at Farnborough Airshow
Air Unmanned Systems Expo and Air Show

BAE Systems Unveils Brontanax CCA at Farnborough Airshow

BAE Systems unveiled the Brontanax Collaborative Combat Aircraft to fly alongside the Eurofighter Typhoon and GCAP’s next-generation fighter at FIA2026.

Ukraine's Liutyi Armed Kamikaze UAV Gets Small Helpers
Air Weapon / Missile Unmanned Systems Expo and Air Show

Ukraine's Liutyi Armed Kamikaze UAV Gets Small Helpers

Ukroboronprom is arming its Liutyi runway-based long-range kamikaze UAV with four UAV-191 turbojet-powered kamikaze UAVs to engage multiple secondary targets.

BETA Defense Unveils MV250 Hybrid Electric VTOL UAV
Air Unmanned Systems Expo and Air Show

BETA Defense Unveils MV250 Hybrid Electric VTOL UAV

BETA Defense unveiled its MV250 hybrid electric VTOL UAV with a gas turbine engine for long-range missions and heavy payloads at the FIA2026 exhibition.

Anduril’s YFQ-44 CCA Completes First AIM-120 AMRAAM Firing
Air Weapon / Missile Unmanned Systems

Anduril’s YFQ-44 CCA Completes First AIM-120 AMRAAM Firing

Anduril’s YFQ-44 Fury collaborative combat aircraft has completed its first firing test with the AIM-120 AMRAAM beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile.

Turkish Firms Join Five Large-Scale NATO Programmes
Space Weapon / Missile Regional / Strategy Homeland Security

Turkish Firms Join Five Large-Scale NATO Programmes

ASELSAN, ROKETSAN, STM, and TÜBİTAK have joined NATO’s five new large-scale multi-national programmes during the 2026 NATO Summit being held in Ankara.

TOLGA C-UAS System Shoots Down Fixed-Wing UAVs and FPVs
Land Weapon / Missile Unmanned Systems

TOLGA C-UAS System Shoots Down Fixed-Wing UAVs and FPVs

MKE’s TOLGA C-UAS system responded to seven scenarios involving FPVs and large fixed-wing UAVs during a test observed by representatives from 24 countries.

Ukraine Tests Catamaran USV with Flatbed as an UAV Mothership
Navy / Maritime Air Unmanned Systems

Ukraine Tests Catamaran USV with Flatbed as an UAV Mothership

A new Ukrainian USV in catamaran configuration with a wide flatbed was tested with Powerus’ Guardian-1 interceptor UAVs launched from launch/storage boxes.

China Tests Road-China’s Electromagnetic Catapult with UAV
Air

China Tests Road-China’s Electromagnetic Catapult with UAV

Test footage of China’s road-mobile mini EMALS catapult emerged on Chinese social media, showing a launch of a tactical-class UAV from the multi-part catapult.

MBF Group-Shark Aviation IRYDA+ X1 UAV Passes Live Test
Air Unmanned Systems

MBF Group-Shark Aviation IRYDA+ X1 UAV Passes Live Test

IRYDA+ X1 kamikaze UAV, jointly developed by the Polish MBF Group and Turkish Shark Aviation, passed its dive test with a deviation of about one metre.

Interview with Kürşat Stealth: Practical and Multi-Band
Air Sensors

Interview with Kürşat Stealth: Practical and Multi-Band

Kürşat Stealth Founder Yunus İnce provided TurDef with further details on its KÜRŞAT 3.0 RAM coating that can be easily applied on a wide range of platforms.

SİPER-1 Air Defence Missile Hits SÜPER ŞİMŞEK High Speed UAV
Land Air Weapon / Missile

SİPER-1 Air Defence Missile Hits SÜPER ŞİMŞEK High Speed UAV

The Turkish MoD announced that the SÜPER ŞİMŞEK of TUSAŞ was utilised as a target UAV for the test of SİPER long-range air defence system with SİPER-1 missile.

Diehl and Polaris Unveil the Cobra 600 Missile Carrier UAV
Air Weapon / Missile Unmanned Systems Expo and Air Show

Diehl and Polaris Unveil the Cobra 600 Missile Carrier UAV

Diehl unveiled the Cobra 600 UAV jointly developed with Polaris to carry and fire IRIS-T air-to-air missiles at the ILA2026 exhibition being held in Germany.

Geran Kamikaze UAV with Terminal Guidance Enters Action
Air Unmanned Systems

Geran Kamikaze UAV with Terminal Guidance Enters Action

Russia shared a footage from a modified Geran kamikaze UAV, fitted with a small EO seeker for terminal guidance, used to strike a Ukrainian kamikaze UAV launcher.

Hellenic Army Expands V-BAT Fleet for Maritime Observation
Navy / Maritime Air Unmanned Systems

Hellenic Army Expands V-BAT Fleet for Maritime Observation

Shield AI announced an additional order for its V-BAT tail-sitter VTOL UAV from Greece for Hellenic Army use, with the focus on Maritime Domain Awareness.

SAHA EXPO 2026: JUNNO Parafoil Cargo UAV as an Alternative
Air Unmanned Systems Expo and Air Show

SAHA EXPO 2026: JUNNO Parafoil Cargo UAV as an Alternative

Turkish INNOVITA presented its JUNNO cargo UAV using an unconventional but also unignorably low-cost layout using parafoils and a propeller for dual use.

SAHA EXPO 2026: TİTRA’s DELİ-S Brings Swarm Capability
Air Unmanned Systems Expo and Air Show

SAHA EXPO 2026: TİTRA’s DELİ-S Brings Swarm Capability

TİTRA presented the hand-launched DELİ-S loitering munition that can operate individually or in homogenous/heterogeneous swarms at SAHA EXPO 2026.