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Drone controlled by a crew on a plane 500 miles away in Armed Forces trial

QinetiQ's aerial target drone, the Banshee, was modified to be controlled by a piloted aircraft.

British defence supplier QinetiQ has successfully demonstrated the UK's first crewed-uncrewed teaming force between a jet and a swarm of UAS.

QinetiQ’s technology provides an airborne gateway which can receive and translate both long range and short range communications between drones. 

QinetiQ has for the first time in the UK demonstrated manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) between jet aircraft. An artist's impression of a demonstration announced on 25 April, in which QinetiQ for the first time in the UK demonstrated MUM-T bet...

Airbus Helicopters has flown its Rapid and Cost-Efficient Rotorcraft (RACER) concept for the first time, the company announced on 25 April. The RACER high-speed helicopter departed Marignane on its maiden flight on 25 April. The milestone to...

Images of what appeared to be a Banshee Jet 80+ unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) were published by Russian media and Moscow-installed officials in Donetsk last week.

The Banshee can reach speeds of 400mph and will fly from Predannack Airfield on the Lizard Peninsula for its maiden voyage.

The company has delivered three firsts during Formidable Shield 23, which was hosted over three weeks at MOD Hebrides and included nearly 4,000 Allied military personnel from 13 NATO nations.

I am enormously proud of the fact that we successfully completed one of the worlds largest tests of naval and missile defences in May of this year. Formidable Shield 23 came to...