Footage geolocated by Business Insider showed Russian air defenses struggling to destroy a fixed-wing drone over the Yelabuga ...

By contrast, the success rates for wingless or fixed-wing drones were just 9.52% and 19%, respectively. A paper on the research was recently made available on arXiv. You can see the drone in ...

This advanced powertrain will energize the AURA-E, a sizable fixed-wing drone intended for ... there could be high-volume drone operations akin to a “mini airline.” “If you imagine drones ...

Larger fixed-wing drones have also operated on the decks of aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships before. In 2013, Northrup Grumman's X-47B demonstrator was launched from and landed on ...

with the drone maintaining controlled flight. The difference-maker, as it turned out, was a switch to a tilt-rotor platform rather than a fixed-wing design. “We added two more motors and a tilt ...

In a major success for the country, India today joined the select league of nations, including the United States, China and Russia, with the capability of shooting down fixed-wing drones and swarm ...

Even larger drones that require the use of a small catapult and recovery net, like the AAI RQ-2 Pioneer and the Boeing Insitu RQ-21 Blackjack, have been used on all kinds of US Navy vessels since the ...