October 2023- The flag carrier of South Korea, Korean Air, displayed its stealth drone at "ADEX," an aerospace and defense show in Seongnam, a suburb of Seoul. Since August 2022, the business has been working on a military project to create a squadron of low-observable unmanned aerial vehicles. Government agencies comprising the Ministry of Trade, Industry, & Energy and the Ministry of National Defense sponsored the event.
September 2023-Â At DSEI 2023, which took place in London from September 12 to 15, an autonomous UAV or unmanned aerial vehicle launch-and-recover system created by Teledyne FLIR Defense and integrated with a new micro-UAV made its debut. Military personnel can use the Black Recon Vehicle Reconnaissance System (VRS), also known as the prototype, for a variety of missions such as positive identification (PID) of targets, area search, track, monitor, follow ahead, route surveillance, and sweeping of mines and explosives. The prototype is designed to offer, surveillance, autonomous persistent reconnaissance, & target acquisition for crews in the military vehicles or for the critical infrastructure to improve situational awareness.
September 2023- A leading British firm, QinetiQ has come up with a pocket-friendly UAV explicitly crafted for cooperative missions and swarming capabilities involving unmanned and manned aircraft. This can carry up to 30 kilograms internal payload, supporting various missions like threat representation, airborne decoy, electronic warfare, and reconnaissance. Jackdaw will allow UK armed forces in diminishing operational risk & enhancing combat capability via swiftly deploying several unmanned aerial systems in situations which currently depend on a selected number of expensive crewed aerial platforms.
Key Companies in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Industry include
- Aero Vironment Inc (US)
- DJI (China)
- Parrot Drones (France)
- PrecisionHawk (US)
- 3D Robotics (US)
- Airbus SASÂ (Netherlands)
- Boeing (US)
- General Atomics (US)
- Lockheed Martin Corporation (US)
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (US)
- Textron Inc (US)
- Thales Group (US)