Australia's Aerosonde has established a multinational strategic alliance with Lockheed Martin to provide unmanned aircraft system solutions for domestic and international homeland security markets. As part of the agreement, they will build, integrate and test advanced systems for customer demonstrations and trials. Lockheed Martin will also purchase Aerosonde UAVs, mission systems and services to carry out these trials.
Source: Flight International
Zephyr ultra-endurance air vehicle developer AALTO has secured a $100 million investment from a Japanese consortium including mobile services provider NTT DOCOMO.
Following its purchase by BAE Systems earlier this year, UK unmanned air vehicle (UAV) manufacturer Malloy Aeronautics is significantly boosting output and targeting continued growth.
UK drone manufacturer Marble Aerospace is considering the adoption of an innovative metallic 3D-printing process to produce the complete airframe of its MRB5 platform to drive performance enhancements.
