News, product launches and technical guides on components for professional drones and eVTOL aircraft, from the editorial team and from the companies in the directory.
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Trillium Engineering switches its gimbal software from calendar versioning to the X.Y.Z semantic scheme, beginning with release 3.1. The change lets customers judge the scope of each update from its number.
Doodle Labs launches Boost, a gallium-nitride amplifier that raises the transmit power of Mesh Rider radios on demand. The C-Band version targets longer range and better resistance to jamming on small drones without a constant drain on…
Gremsy has secured Blue List status from the Defense Contract Management Agency for the ORUS L NDAA payload, the LYNX NDAA payload and the LYNX Mainboard, all sold through Gremsy USA. The Vietnamese gimbal maker says it is the only…
GKN Aerospace supplies the wings, fins and control surfaces of Brontanax, the UK's first Collaborative Combat Aircraft prototype, which BAE Systems unveils. The company covers engineering, manufacture and integration of these flight-ready…
Embention USA and SkyRunner announce an integration that puts the Veronte Autopilot into the FAA-certified SkyRunner MK 3.2 dual-mode air-ground aircraft. The result is an unmanned version of a vehicle that has so far flown with a pilot…
Hexcel finishes qualifying its carbon fibre epoxy prepreg HexPly M91 through NCAMP and publishes the resulting data. Aerospace manufacturers can use it for design and certification.
Intelligent Energy unveils the IE-FLIGHT 120, a 120 kW hydrogen powertrain for large uncrewed aircraft with wings. The UK manufacturer pairs the launch with the biggest UAV order it has received, for its IE-SOAR systems.
Vigilant Aerospace is flight-testing two versions of FlightHorizon PILOT, its detect-and-avoid system carried on the aircraft: a light civilian unit with a transponder receiver and a heavier one with radar. The tests support BVLOS…
H55 delivers battery modules to Pratt & Whitney Canada for the RTX Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstrator. The Swiss company says they were built to production standard in a regulator-approved plant, marking its move from development to…
VectorNav Technologies releases a development kit that brings Iridium positioning data into its VN-210E inertial navigation system, built with NAL Technologies. The company says the extra input keeps navigation going where GNSS is…
Septentrio, part of Hexagon, launches the mosaic-G5 P8, a multi-frequency GNSS module of 23 x 16 mm that weighs as little as 2.2 g. It targets UAVs, marine vessels, rail and other mission-critical devices that must keep positioning under…
GKN Aerospace joins Anduril UK's team for the next phase of Project NYX after the UK Ministry of Defence picks Anduril to continue in the British Army programme. GKN supplies aerostructures and manufacturing capacity for autonomous…
Motorola Solutions earmarks $100 million to scale up manufacturing and supply at Silvus Technologies, starting with a new plant in Salt Lake City, Utah. The aim is to match StreamCaster MANET radio output to rising orders from defense and…
H55 reports that its aviation energy storage system has passed verification of its safety functions as a complete assembly. The Swiss company calls the result a major step in reducing certification risk.
VectorNav Technologies raises the measurement limits of its Tactical Series IMUs and inertial navigation systems to 95 g and 250 g for accelerometers and 4,000 °/s for gyroscopes. Programs for interceptors, missiles and hypersonic…
Syensqo brings a Vertical Aerospace eVTOL rotor blade to JEC World 2026, built from MTM 45-1 materials in a single compression-molding operation. The company says the route removes secondary bonding from blade production.
Vertical Aerospace names Evolito as the supplier of the electric engines for its Valo eVTOL. The pair intend to certify them together, in support of a 2028 target.
Silvus Technologies, a Motorola Solutions company, has the StreamCaster 4400 Enhanced (SC4400E) MANET radio added to the Defense Innovation Unit's Blue UAS Framework. AUVSI also lists the NDAA-compliant radio among its Green UAS Cleared…
