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Alpha Unmanned Systems B100HF heavy fuel engine

It was around eight years ago, in UNC-20 (Jun/Jul 2018), that we unpacked the Alpha 800 (or A800) helicopter UAV from Alpha Unmanned Systems. Since then, the Spanish company has not only gone on to develop that aircraft into...

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Certo Aerospace Capstone VTOL UAV

Vertical lift stands out as an especially interesting technical arena for competitions between differing uncrewed aircraft configurations, with many impending examples such as the UK government’s Project NYX...

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FCT Sweden Lamina fuel cell

The world of uncrewed systems is, in many ways, a critical beachhead market for hydrogen power solutions. Despite their detractors, we have unpacked major success stories such as Canada’s Cellula Robotics and Zepher Flight Labs...

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BushRanger UAV

All around the world, rangers responsible for protecting vulnerable wildlife and ecosystems are being murdered by those who profit from poaching, with one charity estimating that as many as 150 rangers annually are killed in the line of duty...

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H3X HPDG-30 hybrid

The company H3X is an aerospace-focused e-powertrain developer and manufacturer, which was founded in 2020 primarily out of a desire to take on a challenge set (unofficially) by the US’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in 2019...

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MooVita MooBus-7

While much of the buzz throughout the self-driven vehicle world has historically focused on robotaxis, sized for autonomously transporting one-to-four people along sporadic routes, our investigations have revealed that other...

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Edge Performance ThrustVik X3 & X5

BRP-Rotax is a trusted name in engines, not only across UAVs but also motorsport and general aviation (GA), but a variety of companies have long offered improved versions of (or performance upgrade kits for) Rotax engines...

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Tuco Marine Group’s ProZero USVs

The town of Faaborg has existed on the Danish island of Funen for over 800 years, and has spent a significant portion of that history as a key shipping and naval hub for the Kingdom of Denmark. Today, among the town’s boat...

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Avilus Grille

Modern defence forces are built upon concentrations of professional soldiers, and their effectiveness depends not on hitting recruitment quotas, but upon keeping highly trained personnel at fighting fitness. Before the fight, it means...

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Jetoptera FTC-250

Around seven to 10 years ago, the aviation industry experienced rapid growth in the number of new eVTOL and eSTOL aircraft companies, each making bold claims over what their electric air vehicles could accomplish entirely on...