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(courtesy The Australian Newspaper)

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240125/russian-engineers-craft-uav-smart-enough-to-return-to-home-base-even-if-communication-lost-1116375905.html


The MiS-35 drone is designed in the form of a hexacopter, which consists of six propeller units.

A new, multi-rotor type, unmanned aerial vehicle comes equipped with a revolutionary system that enables it to return to its launching point even in situations where communication with the operator is completely lost due to electronic warfare systems.

It functions on the principles of inertial navigation without the use of GPS. The ‘Podvodyr’ system takes the drone out of EW range until the operator re-establishes communication,” the design bureau said.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/darpa-aurora-flight-sciences-started-building-radical-prototype-plane/

DARPA this week announced that Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun building an aircraft that can maneuver without the need for traditional flight control surfaces.

Through the CRANE initiative, DARPA and Aurora are trying to break the mold of a feature foundational to aviation’s century-plus existence. Whereas aircraft have been operated with flight control surfaces — e.g. flaps and rudders — the CRANE drone is being designed to instead leverage pressurized air using active flow control (AFC) actuators to shape an aircraft’s flight.

The unmanned vehicle itself could fly as soon as summer 2025.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/372951/china-has-launched-its-secretive-space-plane-on-another-mystery-mission

China's efforts to develop reusable spaceflight technologies, such as the space plane known as CSSHQ, has long remained something of an enigma. It is likely to perform a similar role to the X-37b - a secretive space plane originally developed by NASA before being handed over to the US Department of Defense which has itself conducted numerous secretive missions into space lasting up to several years at a time.