The aircraft incorporates a series hybrid-electric powertrain alongside dual tiltrotors, enabling greater range, endurance and operational efficiency.

The next fighter jet may not need a runway. Shield AI and GE Aerospace have completed a critical propulsion test for X-BAT, an autonomous strike aircraft built to take off and land vertically. The ...

Archer Aviation has named Japan’s Marubeni Aerospace Corporation as the launch customer for its newly revealed Halo ...

American defense company Shield AI tested the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) tech for the X-Bat combat drone ...

Portuguese-UK unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) maker Tekever unveiled a prototype of its AR6 heavy-lift UAV, the first of a ...

Sikorsky completes initial flight tests of the Nomad 100 uncrewed aircraft, a DARPA-backed VTOL platform built for ...

Anduril and Archer unveil "Thunder," a Group 5 autonomous tiltrotor designed as a loyal wingman for military rotorcraft.

The MV250 delivers greater range and higher speed than similarly sized legacy platforms, and dramatically lowers procurement and operating costs compared to similarly sized legacy military platforms ...

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky advances Nomad 100 autonomous VTOL testing and expands Safran propulsion partnership—key ...

Horizon Aircraft has announced it has signed a Letter of Intent with V-Star Powered Lift Aviation for five Cavorite X7 hybrid-electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft with options to ...

The company has three X-BAT fuselages in build, with three engines and two nozzles, Hawkes says. The second nozzle is a hybrid of old and new parts, he says. To take off vertically, the X-BAT would ...

Anduril unveiled Thunder at Farnborough Airshow, a hybrid-electric VTOL platform co-developed with Archer Aviation for ...