U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conduct Mobile Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integrated Defense System (M-LIDS) training, Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Jan. 25, 2022. The Soldiers trained on the M-LIDS weapon system, which can be mounted on vehicles and is designed to target and disable, or destroy hostile drones or other unmanned aerial vehicles, in support of the Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve advise, assist, and enable mission. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Karl R. Cain II)

Counter-UAS: The Price of the Shot

How Western militaries are trying to restore a sustainable cost-exchange ratio against cheap drones The announcement out of BAE Systems’…

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jordan Chaussepied, a small unmanned aircraft system operator with the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team, flies a drone with a member from the House of Armed Services Committee, during a drone demonstration at Weapons Training Battalion on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Aug. 6, 2025. MCADT conducted a range demonstration for members of the HASC highlighting their capabilities and potential applications on the battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Anthony C. Ramsey Jr.)

Gauntlet Phase II: Tougher, Differentiated Missions

Phase II of the Army’s Drone Dominance Gauntlet raises the stakes — longer range, tighter urban missions, continuous electronic warfare,…

A Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system flies toward a simulated target during a kinetic first-person view drone range on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Sept. 12, 2025. The range was conducted to validate a scalable, repeatable methodology for enabling FPV strike operations and used as a reference to support cost-effective training and eventual kinetic employment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Zachariah Ferraro)

Gauntlet Phase 1: America’s New Champions of FPV Warfare

From Garage Startups to Pentagon Champions: Meet the Eleven Companies Remaking American FPV Warfare Phase 1 of the Pentagon’s Drone…

A Neros Archer first-person view drone, armed with a Kraken Kinetics Terminus payload, closes on a simulated enemy vehicle during the National Drone Association Drone Crucible in Florida, Sept. 20, 2025. The MCADT participated in the Drone Crucible with other teams from across the joint force to showcase capabilities and exchange tactics, techniques, and procedures to advance FPV attack drone and other small unmanned aircraft systems employment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joshua Barker)

Five Companies Win the Pentagon’s Drone Munition Lethality Prize Challenge

The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) announced this Wednesday its five preferred companies to manufacture modular warheads for small kamikaze drones it…

Teledyne FLIR Upgrades Rogue 1 Block 2 with Extended Range, Larger Warhead

Teledyne FLIR Upgrades Rogue 1 Block 2 with Extended Range, Larger Warhead

Teledyne FLIR has unveiled an improved Block 2 variant of its Rogue 1 quadcopter enabling the loitering munition to strike ...
Northrop Grumman Named Preferred Payload Provider for Drone Dominance Program

Northrop Grumman Named Preferred Payload Provider for Drone Dominance Program

On the opening day of SOF Week, the Pentagon announced the five winners of its Drone Dominance Program Lethality Prize ...
Unmanned, Autonomy, and Counter-UAS on the Tampa Agenda: What to Watch at SOF Week 2026

Unmanned, Autonomy, and Counter-UAS on the Tampa Agenda: What to Watch at SOF Week 2026

Live demonstrations along the Riverwalk, an expanded outdoor program, and a session track built around autonomy and interoperability put unmanned ...
DZYNE Unveils Blitz Hand-Launch UAS With 93-Mile Strike Range

DZYNE Unveils Blitz Hand-Launch UAS With 93-Mile Strike Range

While America's drone industry has fixated on first-person view quadcopters like those swarming Ukrainian battlefields, DZYNE Technologies is bucking the ...
SOF Week 2026 Returns to Tampa as Acquisition Speed Becomes the Industry Test

SOF Week 2026 Returns to Tampa as Acquisition Speed Becomes the Industry Test

USSOCOM's annual gathering convenes May 18–21 at the Tampa Convention Center, with a program built around the affordable-mass, attritable-systems, and ...
Anatomy of an American Autonomy System on a Chip

Anatomy of an American Autonomy System on a Chip

How Hyfix’s H1 brings the autonomy stack into a single architecture—making autonomous systems more trusted, more scalable, and better suited ...
Shield AI, Thunder Tiger Sign MOU to Bring Hivemind to Taiwan USV Fleet

Shield AI, Thunder Tiger Sign MOU to Bring Hivemind to Taiwan USV Fleet

Shield AI and Taiwan-based Thunder Tiger Corp. have signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software ...
Trimble Targets Drone Delivery Integration with Smart Antenna Enclosure for PX-1 RTX

Trimble Targets Drone Delivery Integration with Smart Antenna Enclosure for PX-1 RTX

Trimble has released a smart antenna enclosure option for its PX-1 RTX positioning solution, packaging centimeter-level GNSS-inertial hardware with an ...
Hitec Commercial Solutions Announces Next-Gen Servo for Small UAS

Hitec Commercial Solutions Announces Next-Gen Servo for Small UAS

Hitec Commercial Solutions is excited to announce the next generation in brushless drone servo technology: our high-performance BD10BL. Designed specifically ...
Five Good Questions: MatrixSpace

Five Good Questions: MatrixSpace

Matthew Kling is VP and General Manager of AI Systems at MatrixSpace, leading development of the AiCloud and AiEdge platforms. He ...
JIATF-401 Selects Five Installations for Directed-Energy C-UAS Pilot

JIATF-401 Selects Five Installations for Directed-Energy C-UAS Pilot

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has selected five military installations to host a directed-energy counter-UAS pilot program authorized under the ...
Army Expands Company-Level SUAS Portfolio with Three Additional Systems

Army Expands Company-Level SUAS Portfolio with Three Additional Systems

The U.S. Army has selected three additional vendor solutions for its company-level Small Unmanned Aircraft System portfolio, expanding the program ...
Counter-UAS: The Price of the Shot

Counter-UAS: The Price of the Shot

How Western militaries are trying to restore a sustainable cost-exchange ratio against cheap drones A first-person view small unmanned aircraft ...
Ukraine Building Drone Industry Under Fire

Ukraine Building Drone Industry Under Fire

Four years of war have produced one of the most dynamic defense technology ecosystems in the world. Now Ukraine is ...
XPONENTIAL 2026: What to Expect in Detroit

XPONENTIAL 2026: What to Expect in Detroit

Inside Unmanned Systems is proud to serve as an official media partner of XPONENTIAL 2026, the world's largest autonomous systems ...
L3Harris Opens High-Volume VAMPIRE Production Line in Huntsville

L3Harris Opens High-Volume VAMPIRE Production Line in Huntsville

L3Harris Technologies has initiated high-volume production of its VAMPIRE counter-unmanned systems at a new dedicated facility in Huntsville, Alabama, marking ...
AeroVironment Demonstrates LOCUST Laser Weapon System Aboard Aircraft Carrier

AeroVironment Demonstrates LOCUST Laser Weapon System Aboard Aircraft Carrier

AeroVironment has announced that its palletized LOCUST Laser Weapon System successfully tracked, engaged, and neutralized multiple target drones during a ...
Leonardo DRS Integrates Maritime C-UAS Package onto Autonomous Surface Vessel

Leonardo DRS Integrates Maritime C-UAS Package onto Autonomous Surface Vessel

Leonardo DRS has integrated its Maritime Mission Equipment Package onto a Sea Machines STORMRUNNER autonomous unmanned surface vessel, extending counter-drone ...
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates JAGM Vertical-Launch C-UAS Capability

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates JAGM Vertical-Launch C-UAS Capability

Lockheed Martin is advancing the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile as a ground- and maritime-based counter-UAS effector, with a vertical-launch configuration designed ...
Army Awards AeroVironment $14.6 Million for VAPOR CLE Under Company-Level Reconnaissance Program

Army Awards AeroVironment $14.6 Million for VAPOR CLE Under Company-Level Reconnaissance Program

AeroVironment has been awarded a $14.6 million production contract by the U.S. Army for the VAPOR Compact Long Endurance unmanned ...
Lockheed Martin Invests $25 Million in Fortem Technologies to Scale Counter-UAS Capability

Lockheed Martin Invests $25 Million in Fortem Technologies to Scale Counter-UAS Capability

Lockheed Martin has made a $25 million investment in Fortem Technologies, the initial tranche of Fortem's Series B round, to ...
Army Deploys Ukraine-Tested Merops Interceptor at Scale to Counter Iranian Shahed Drones

Army Deploys Ukraine-Tested Merops Interceptor at Scale to Counter Iranian Shahed Drones

The U.S. Army has purchased 13,000 Merops low-cost interceptor drones and begun deploying them to counter Iranian-made Shahed one-way attack ...
Thales, Viasat and Partners Complete BVLOS Connectivity Trials at Cranfield

Thales, Viasat and Partners Complete BVLOS Connectivity Trials at Cranfield

Thales, Viasat, and a consortium of European partners have completed flight trials at Cranfield University testing multi-link connectivity architecture for ...
Army C-UAS Marketplace Reaches $13M in Sales, Opens to State and Local Buyers

Army C-UAS Marketplace Reaches $13M in Sales, Opens to State and Local Buyers

The Pentagon's Counter-UAS Marketplace has generated $13 million in purchases since its launch earlier this year, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ...
Echodyne's EchoShield Radar Selected for Trust Automation's Air Force C-UAS Platform

Echodyne’s EchoShield Radar Selected for Trust Automation’s Air Force C-UAS Platform

Echodyne has been named the primary radar provider for Trust Automation's Small-Unmanned Air Defense System (SUADS) family, which is being ...
Rohde & Schwarz Brings Full ARDRONIS C-UAS Suite to Counter UAS Technology Europe

Rohde & Schwarz Brings Full ARDRONIS C-UAS Suite to Counter UAS Technology Europe

Rohde & Schwarz is demonstrating its complete ARDRONIS counter-UAS suite this week at Counter UAS Technology Europe 2026 in London, ...
Saildrone Unveils Spectre MUSV at Sea-Air-Space, Competes for Navy Marketplace

Saildrone Unveils Spectre MUSV at Sea-Air-Space, Competes for Navy Marketplace

Saildrone unveiled the Spectre at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland today — a 52-meter, 250-tonne unmanned surface vessel ...
Danish Startup Sapient Perception Raises €2M for Wide-Area UAV Sensor Platform

Danish Startup Sapient Perception Raises €2M for Wide-Area UAV Sensor Platform

Sapient Perception ApS, a Copenhagen-based developer of AI sensor systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, has raised a €2 million pre-seed ...
Anduril's YFQ-44A Completes First Experimental Testing with Air Force Operators

Anduril’s YFQ-44A Completes First Experimental Testing with Air Force Operators

The U.S. Air Force's Experimental Operations Unit has completed its first hands-on exercise with the YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft at ...
DroneDash and GEODNET Launch GEODASH Aerosystems with Heavy-Lift Agricultural Spraying Drone

DroneDash and GEODNET Launch GEODASH Aerosystems with Heavy-Lift Agricultural Spraying Drone

DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to bring a new class of autonomous agricultural spraying drone to ...
Advanced Navigation Expands World’s Only DFOG Range With New A Series

Advanced Navigation Expands World’s Only DFOG Range With New A Series

Advanced Navigation, the world’s most determined innovator in artificial intelligence for robotic and navigation technologies has announced the expansion of ...
USAF Taps WingXpand to Ruggedize Aircraft, Develop Fire-Spotting Software

USAF Taps WingXpand to Ruggedize Aircraft, Develop Fire-Spotting Software

The U.S. Air Force has awarded WingXpand a seven-figure contract to customize and ruggedize its unique, seven-foot backpackable aircraft ...
RIEGL, Schiebel Cooperating on UAS-Based Airborne Scanning

RIEGL, Schiebel Cooperating on UAS-Based Airborne Scanning

RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems GmbH and Schiebel have successfully completed the integration of a high-end laser scanning system, the RIEGL ...
ABS Issues Approval in Principle for Saildrone USVs

ABS Issues Approval in Principle for Saildrone USVs

The American Bureau of Shipping has issued Approval in Principle certificates to Saildrone ...
LiquidPiston Evolves the Rotary

LiquidPiston Evolves the Rotary

LiquidPiston, a Bloomfield, Connecticut-based developer of advanced power solutions, has moved closer to fielding its technology ...
Canada's Federal Fleet Services Installs MARSS CUAS System on Combat Support Ship

Canada’s Federal Fleet Services Installs MARSS CUAS System on Combat Support Ship

MARSS and Federal Fleet Services announced the full NiDAR C2 and CUAS will be installed on Asterix, a Combat Support ...
Four Potential Future Tactical VTOL Systems Advance in Quest for Modernization

Four Potential Future Tactical VTOL Systems Advance in Quest for Modernization

A seven-week Base Period concluded May 24 with “agreement option 1” awards to four Project Agreement Holders for the Army's ...
Times Microwave Systems Announces TF-047 Micro-Coaxial Cable

Times Microwave Systems Announces TF-047 Micro-Coaxial Cable

Times Microwave Systems, the preeminent brand in innovative RF and microwave interconnect assemblies, cables, and connectors, introduces its new TF-047 ...
Army Selects Northrop Grumman, Shield AI for Future Tactical UAS Prototype

Army Selects Northrop Grumman, Shield AI for Future Tactical UAS Prototype

Northrop Grumman, teamed with Shield AI, has been chosen by the U.S. Army to participate in the Future Tactical Unmanned ...
Industry Trends Observed at 2023 XPONENTIAL Show

Industry Trends Observed at 2023 XPONENTIAL Show

AUVSI wrapped its 2023 XPONENTIAL convention in Denver last week, bringing together thousands of attendees and hundreds of companies to ...
BRINC Aims Lemur 2 and BRINC Ball at Police, SWAT

BRINC Aims Lemur 2 and BRINC Ball at Police, SWAT

Giving new meaning to the term “blue UAS,” Seattle-based BRINC is highlighting its new Lemur 2 small UAS at AUVSI's ...
Trimble Launches RTX for Drone Package Delivery

Trimble Launches RTX for Drone Package Delivery

Provides Integrators with Hardware and Software as a Service for Unparalleled Accuracy and Performance Trimble announced today the Trimble PX-1 ...
A2Z Drone Delivery Launches RDSX Pelican Commercial Delivery Drone

A2Z Drone Delivery Launches RDSX Pelican Commercial Delivery Drone

A2Z Drone Delivery Inc. has released its new flagship delivery drone, the RDSX Pelican ...
D-Fend Solution’s Software Release Brings New Capability

D-Fend Solution’s Software Release Brings New Capability

A D-Fend Solutions system shown preparing to defend a baseball stadium. Image courtesy of D-Fend Solutions. RA'ANANA, Israel and MCLEAN, ...
Stratom to Showcase Autonomous Pallet Loader at XPONENTIAL

Stratom to Showcase Autonomous Pallet Loader at XPONENTIAL

Stratom plans to display an autonomous pallet loader and showcase a robotic refueler at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL ...
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