Engineers at EPFL University in Switzerland have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail. The inspiration for the design of this drone was the Northern hawk-a fast and powerful predator.

Dragonfly is a drone-sniper with a flying detector of explosive devices that can independently detonate identified objects.

The office of Surveillance Commissioners (OSC) awarded the first-ever certificate of compliance for surveillance camera systems to a private company, allowing the use of UAVs for surveillance.

The Japanese company Kawasaki Heavy Industries conducted the first flight tests of the high-speed rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle K-RACER. According to the company, the tests took place at the Aviation Park in Hokkaido and were considered successful.

Company SoftBank Corp. HAPSMobile Inc. (“HAPSMobile”) and the Alphabet's Loon LLC (“Loon”) successfully tested their jointly developed communications payload in the stratosphere on the HAPSMobile “Sunglider”, a solar-powered unmanned aircraft system.

During the combined-arms training "Zulfiqar-99" of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the combat drone "Kaman-12" started its service. 

The Australian division of the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing has made significant progress in using artificial intelligence (AI) to train UAVs to detect, make decisions, act during a mission and independently adjust the route to obtain more accurate data.