Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces have recorded the first confirmed destruction of a Russian Shahed attack drone using an interceptor launched…
Ukraine Deploys Interceptor Drones from An-28 Aircraft in Combat
Ukraine has begun launching interceptor drones from a modified Antonov An-28 turboprop in combat operations against Russian Shahed attack drones,…
Australia Commits AUD 7 Billion to C-UAS, Awards Contracts to AIM Defence and SYPAQ
Australia has more than doubled its planned counter-UAS investment for the Australian Defence Force, allocating up to AUD 7 billion…
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 has announced that its palletized LOCUST Laser Weapon System successfully tracked, engaged, and neutralized multiple target drones during a…
Marines Complete Shipboard Testing of TRV-150C Cargo UAS
The Marine Corps has completed dynamic interface testing of the TRV-150C tactical resupply unmanned aircraft system aboard an amphibious transport…
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 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
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 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
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…
U.S. Southern Command Establishes Dedicated Autonomous Warfare Command
U.S. Southern Command has established the SOUTHCOM Autonomous Warfare Command, making it among the first geographic combatant commands to stand…
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
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 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 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 unveiled the Spectre at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland today — a 52-meter, 250-tonne unmanned surface vessel…
FAA Releases Section 2209 NPRM, Two-Tier Framework for Drone Restrictions Around Critical Infrastructure
The Federal Aviation Administration on May 6 published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would, nearly a decade after Congress ...
Scaling Autonomy Requires Aligned Policy and Strategy
There’s been a shift in Washington. Congress just held two hearings focused on robotics and autonomous systems in just over ...
Wireless Industry Urges FCC to Expand Licensed Spectrum Access for Drone Operations
Major wireless industry groups and technology companies filed initial comments with the FCC this week calling for expanded licensed spectrum ...
U.S., U.K. Forces Integrate Drones, Counter-UAS, and UGVs in Lithuania Exercise
U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and paratroopers from the U.K. Parachute Regiment conducted the force-on-force phase of ...
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, ...
Gauntlet Phase 1: America’s New Champions of FPV Warfare
From Garage Startups to Pentagon Champions: Meet the Eleven Companies Remaking American FPV Warfare A Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft ...
NATO Tests Layered C-UAS Architecture in Romania Under Eastern Sentry
NATO Allied Command Transformation organized the first Layered Counter-UAS Initiative Crucible event at Romania's Capu Midia Training Range in April, ...
FPV Drones Threaten the CASEVAC Mission
A near miss from Hezbollah one-way attack drones reflects a new threat to helicopter casualty evacuation missions. Hezbollah FPV footage ...
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 ...
From Platform Builder to Defense Systems Prime
AeroVironment’s CEO Wahid Nawabi discusses how defense needs are shifting, and why the company is well positioned to be the ...
Robinson Unmanned, Sikorsky Win Marine Corps Contract for Autonomous Cargo Helicopter
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded a $15.5 million contract to Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, for the Medium Aerial ...
Scaling ISR: From Sensors to Autonomous Perception at the Edge
As UAS proliferation accelerates and threat environments evolve, ISR is shifting from standalone sensors to scalable, AI-enabled systems—where performance, integration, ...
Ukraine’s 412th Nemesis Brigade Achieves First USV-Launched Interceptor Kill Against Shahed
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces have recorded the first confirmed destruction of a Russian Shahed attack drone using an interceptor launched ...
Ukraine Deploys Interceptor Drones from An-28 Aircraft in Combat
Ukraine has begun launching interceptor drones from a modified Antonov An-28 turboprop in combat operations against Russian Shahed attack drones, ...
Australia Commits AUD 7 Billion to C-UAS, Awards Contracts to AIM Defence and SYPAQ
Australia has more than doubled its planned counter-UAS investment for the Australian Defence Force, allocating up to AUD 7 billion ...
AeroVironment Debuts MAYHEM 10 Launched Effects System at AAAA
AeroVironment used the Army Aviation Association of America annual forum in Nashville this week to unveil MAYHEM 10, the first ...
Redwire Receives $20M in Follow-On Orders for Stalker UAS Advanced Navigation Systems
Redwire has received purchase orders totaling more than $20 million from the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft ...
UK Ministry of Defence Orders Skyhammer Interceptors from Cambridge Aerospace
The UK Ministry of Defence has contracted Cambridge Aerospace to supply Skyhammer drone interceptors to the British Armed Forces and ...
Powerus and Digital Force Technologies Partner on Kinetic C-UAS Kill Chain
Powerus and Digital Force Technologies have announced a strategic partnership to develop a fully integrated kinetic counter-UAS kill chain targeting ...
EagleNXT Acquires $10M Stake in Israel’s ThirdEye Systems, Launches U.S. C-UAS Joint Venture
EagleNXT has acquired a $10 million stake in Israeli counter-UAS firm ThirdEye Systems and established a majority-owned U.S. joint venture ...
JIATF-401 Expands NCR Counter-UAS Layered Defense with Bumblebee Training
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 and Joint Task Force-National Capital Region conducted a counter-UAS training exercise at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, ...
ZenaTech Plans Ukraine Facility for Counter-UAS Testing and Validation
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) has announced plans to establish a dedicated drone testing and operational validation facility in Ukraine, adding to ...
ePropelled Expands Hercules Starter Generator Line for Multi-Domain Hybrid Missions
ePropelled has announced a significant 2026 expansion of its Hercules starter generator product line, extending the platform's reach across uncrewed ...
BAE Systems Completes First APKWS Live-Fire Trial from Eurofighter Typhoon
BAE Systems has successfully test-fired the AGR-20A Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) from a Eurofighter Typhoon, completing the first ...
DoD Task Force Commits $600M to C-UAS as Iran and World Cup Drive Dual Demand
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has committed more than $600 million to counter-unmanned aircraft systems capability across three distinct mission ...
General Cherry and Orqa Sign Agreement to Bring Ukrainian Interceptor Drones to NATO
Ukrainian drone manufacturer General Cherry and Croatian UAV producer Orqa have signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly develop and ...
FCC Opens Drone Comment Period as Covered List Takes Shape
The Federal Communications Commission is soliciting public comment on a broad slate of regulatory reforms aimed at accelerating domestic unmanned ...
Red Cat Partners with Ukraine’s State Defense Export Authority
Red Cat Holdings has formalized a strategic partnership with Spetstechnoexport, a state-owned enterprise under Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, through a ...
Rebuilding the Supply Chain
New regulations aim to bring drone component manufacturing onshore, creating short-term supply chain challenges but setting the stage for a ...
NAVAIR Awards Near Earth Autonomy Contract for GPS-Denied Maritime Logistics
The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy a contract to develop an aircraft-agnostic autonomy solution for ...
Zelim Selects Sea Machines SM300 Autonomy for Unmanned Search and Rescue Vessel
Scottish search and rescue company Zelim has developed the Guardian class of fast rescue craft, controlled by Sea Machines Robotics’ ...
Teledyne’s Thermal by FLIR Expands With US Drone Makers BRINC and Teal
Teledyne FLIR announced continued momentum within its Thermal by FLIR program for SUAS with the integration of its Hadron 640R ...
Red Cat Launches Teal 2 Night-Operations SUAS at AAAA Summit
Red Cat Holdings Inc. officially launched its new military-grade sUAS, the Teal 2, at the 2023 AAAA Army Aviation Missions ...
Regulus Puts a Ring on Rogue UAS
C-UAS Ring variants from Regulus Cyber are being deployed in air, ground and sea environments ...
Kea Aerospace Launches Solar-Powered Stratospheric Aircraft
The "Kea Atmos Mk 1" uncrewed aircraft has been designed to be used for stratospheric flight testing. It has a ...
Xwing’s Superpilot Becomes FAA’s First ‘Standard’ UAS Certification Project
The autonomous aviation company Xwing has submitted a Project Specific Certification Plan to the FAA, becoming the first Standard Category ...
Event 38 Unmanned Systems Uses E400 Drone to Map Turks and Caicos Islands
Event 38 Unmanned Systems, which manufactures American-made mapping drones, said its E400 fixed-wing drone was used to collect aerial imagery ...
Cloud Ground Control Enables Remote Monitoring and Control of Unlimited Uncrewed Systems with New Micro-modem
CGConnect is transforming robotic vehicles across air, land and sea into a connected autonomous fleet ...
Textron Systems’ Aerosonde Expands to More Ships; VTOL Capability Could Add More
Textron Systems’ Aerosonde unmanned aircraft has seen its use on Navy ships expand over the past year, and its maritime ...
FLARES adds VTOL to Insitu’s Integrator
Insitu’s Flying Launch and Recovery System (FLARES) octocopter is a VTOL mothership that launches the company’s Integrator fixed-wing vehicle ...
AeroVironment Introduces Switchblade 300 Block 20 Rapidly Deployable Loitering Missile System
Building on AeroVironment’s tactical missile legacy, the Switchblade 300 Block 20 offers enhanced operational features and performance ...
SoftBank Develops Lithium-metal Battery Cells Pack, Demos Operation in the Stratosphere
Japan’s SoftBank Corp. announced it has developed a battery pack using a next-generation lithium-metal battery cell manufactured by Enpower Japan ...
Zipline Unveils New Autonomous System Capable of Quiet, Fast and Precise Home Delivery
Zipline on March 15 unveiled its new platform that provides quiet, fast and precise autonomous delivery directly to homes in ...
Topcon Further Expands MC-X Platform with All-New GNSS Option for Compact Equipment
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Topcon Positioning Systems has announced the availability of a new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) option for ...
Steadicopter Bridges the Gulf with Black Eagle UAS
Emirates Defense Technology and Steadicopter announced an agreement to adapt the Israeli company’s rotary-wing Black Eagle UAS to meet emerging ...
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