After nearly two decades of focused development, a Chinese research team has finally proven ...

A Chinese research team has successfully tested a streamlined thrust-vectoring concept on a high-speed unmanned aircraft, pushing drones into high-subsonic flight.

An aerodynamic tail nozzle designed in Nanjing proves its mettle in a high-subsonic speed drone test In a world first, ...

China's Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) has announced that it has test-fired its new 1,322-pound (600-kilogram) thrust turbofan engine for the first time. The announcement was made on WeChat ...

Key Points and Summary - In the late 1990s, the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and Lockheed Martin studied the X-44 MANTA—a tailless, delta-winged concept that utilized multi-axis thrust vectoring instead of ...

A Norwegian start-up is hoping its small electric-powered ducted-fan engine for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) can spearhead a move up the weight class into commercial aviation applications.

LONDON—BAE Systems and the University of Manchester have test flown a subscale UAV demonstrator that uses wing circulation control and fluidic thrust vectoring for flight control. Details of the Magma ...

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) builder Kratos and engine manufacturer General Electric (GE) signed an agreement to build engines for “the next generation of affordable unmanned aerial systems and ...