Asia
UNIVITY and TELKOMSAT Future Satellite Connectivity Opportunities
Paris and Jakarta, July 6, 2026 – UNIVITY, a provider of space-based connectivity infrastructure for telecom operators, and Telkom Satelit Indonesia (Telkomsat), Indonesia’s national satellite operator, have signed a Memorandum...Read More
Drone Wars: How Cheap FPV Swarms Broke Air Defense in the Middle East and Ukraine
The age of the drone wars has arrived, and every serious military on the planet now watches the same two battle laboratories in Ukraine and the Middle East. From the...Read More
Defense Tech at the Crossroads: The Convergence of Drones, Airspace Safety and Grand Strategy
Three urgent questions define American defense in 2026: Can the United States build and field autonomous systems fast enough to matter? Can the nation’s airspace absorb the platforms it is...Read More
Drones Are Overrunning Borders. This Award-Winning RF-Cyber Solution Stops Them
Borders have always been contested. The emergence of weaponized, commercial,and cartel-controlled drones has rewritten the threat calculus in ways that legacy security infrastructure was never designed to handle. Surveillance cameras...Read More
The Dawn Of Confined Space Autonomy: Flyability’s Elios 3
In heavy industry, there are places even robots were never supposed to go. Deep inside boilers and tanks, down lightless sewer lines, behind concrete in nuclear storage vaults and inside...Read More
From Rigs To Refineries: The New Energy Ops Stack For Offshore And Petrochemical Assets
Energy operators have entered a new world as AI, long-range cargo drones, and task‑specific robots now do the work once reserved for helicopters, scaffold, and people in harnesses. In the...Read More
Japan Drone and AAM Expo 2026: More Heavy-Lift UAVs Pushing the Boundaries of Drone Innovation
Japan’s drone sector is thinking big, building bigger and deploying at scale. In Part 1 of this series, I introduced four Japanese companies at the Japan Drone and AAM Expo...Read More
AfBAA launches first phase of groundbreaking research to improve understanding of business aviation in Africa.
15 June 2026/Kigali, Rwanda – The African Business Aviation Association, AfBAA, has announced the launch of a landmark research project that aims to advance the understanding, perception, and knowledge of...Read More
Japan Drone and AAM Expo 2026: Heavy-Lift UAVs Tackling Disaster Response, Infrastructure Inspection and ISR
Japan Drone and AAM Expo 2026, Japan’s annual drone showcase, has grown into one of Asia’s most important unmanned systems gatherings. It brings together commercial developers, researchers, defense-adjacent companies, and...Read More
As The Crow Flies: Ornadyne’s Bird-Mimicking Ornithopter O1 Targets Military Reconnaissance Missions
At SOF Week 2026, Geourg Kivijian wasn’t handing out business cards. He and co-founder Armen Arakelyan walked the show carrying a drone that looked like a bird. Their startup, Ornadyne,...Read More
