4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (319+ words) Fiber-optic control now accounts for 70% of the drones Ukraine’s National Guard flies, up from about 20%, Commander Oleksandr Pivnenko said in an interview on September 8. The drones swap a radio link for a hair-thin glass cable that unspools in flight, giving…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (425+ words) Hermeus has selected Anduril Industries to run the autonomy on its Quarterhorse Mk 2 high-speed drone, with the two firms targeting the first autonomous flight of the aircraft in 2027. Anduril announced the agreement September 3. Under the deal, Anduril will integrate its…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (531+ words) Israeli firm Axon Vision has won the first order for ForceField, an AI-driven gun turret built to shoot down the fiber-optic drones that radio jamming cannot touch, in a deal worth up to about 15 million shekels ($5.0 million) from an unnamed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (399+ words) The Air Force declared its MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter operational for nuclear security on August 10, clearing the Boeing aircraft to guard intercontinental ballistic missile fields across the Great Plains. Air Force Global Strike Command announced the milestone on August 31. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (430+ words) Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced plans to launch a new defense technology company, with Palantir CEO Alex Karp serving as its first key investor. Fedorov said the new venture would seek to turn Ukraine’s battlefield experience with emerging…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (547+ words) Russia has stepped up its use of faster, jet-powered Shahed drones against Ukraine, launching about 800 of the weapons over four days. “There were almost 1,500 drones of all types in these four days alone – about 800 of them jet-powered,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (357+ words) Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said Aug. 27 that front-line units have begun combat testing strike unmanned ground vehicles fitted with a turret that mounts two Kalashnikov assault rifles, the most widely used small arm in Ukrainian units. The ministry said Special…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (434+ words) Northern Command said a border task force laser defeated three unmanned aircraft judged hostile on August 25 and 26, the first AMP-HEL shots at cartel-linked drones on the southern border. AeroVironment confirmed one of its AMP-HEL systems was used but did not…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (331+ words) The U.S. Navy asked industry on August 25 to design a standoff air-launched torpedo that manned aircraft and drones can release from high altitude and glide toward enemy submarines, opening a program called Silent Anvil. The core idea is not new. The…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (462+ words) A U.S. Air Force EA-37B Compass Call II electronic warfare aircraft spent approximately two hours orbiting west of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave on August 18, part of a large, unannounced NATO air exercise that massed between 25 and 50 aircraft over northeastern Poland and the…...