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Alta Ares raises €50M to mass-produce drone interceptors proven over Ukraine
Alta Ares, a Franco-Ukrainian maker of AI drone interceptors used in Ukraine, raised €50 million to scale production as demand for cheap air defense climbs.
Ukraine · Europe · Air Defense · Alta Ares · counter-drone · shahed
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Palladyne AI lands exclusive US rights to build IAI's Harpy and Harop loitering munitions
Palladyne AI signed an MoU for up-to-10-year exclusive US rights to make and market IAI's combat-proven Harpy, Harop and Mini-Harpy loitering munitions, onshoring them as the Pentagon scales munition buys.
Israel · drones · Palladyne AI · IAI · Harpy · Harop · loitering munitions
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ICEYE raises over €1bn at a €10bn valuation to scale its radar-satellite fleet
ICEYE closed a Series F worth over €1bn at a €10bn-plus valuation, a record European spacetech round, to scale the radar constellation Ukraine already uses to find Russian targets.
Europe · Funding · ICEYE · sar · Space
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Ukraine codifies the MAC OWL 'Sova', an MRAP built to carry a 10-module jamming dome against FPV drones
Ukraine's MoD codified the MAC OWL 'Sova' MRAP, designed to mount up to 10 electronic-warfare modules into a jamming dome against the FPV drones now hunting vehicles across the front.
Ukraine · Electronic Warfare · MAC OWL Sova · MRAP
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Ukraine turned its drone war into an industry. Now Wall Street is pricing it.
Swarmer's Nasdaq debut, a wave of Western venture money and a Pentagon FPV contract show Ukrainian defense tech crossing from battlefield to balance sheet, at a valuation that has outrun the revenue.
Ukraine · USA · Funding · Swarmer · drones · defense tech · venture capital · Pentagon
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Ukraine's interceptor drones now down Shaheds on autopilot
Ukraine's defense ministry says a Brave1-backed interceptor automates 95% of a Shahed intercept, leaving the operator to pick the target and clear the shot.
Ukraine · Autonomy · Brave1 · shahed · Mykhailo Fedorov
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Shifters raises $10.2M to put robots first into tunnels and rubble
The US-Israeli startup raised a $10.2 million seed led by Ace Capital Partners to scale ground robots that enter tunnels and rubble before troops.
USA · Autonomy · Shifters · Ace Capital Partners
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Airbus unveils the U145, an uncrewed H145 built for contested resupply
Airbus is turning its best-selling H145 light twin into a pilotless cargo helicopter for frontline resupply, with a maiden flight due late 2026 and service entry not before the early 2030s.
Europe · Autonomy · Airbus · U145 · H145
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A French Rafale downs a drone over Latvia, NATO's second Baltic shootdown in three weeks
Ukrainian long-range drones knocked off course by Russian jamming keep crossing into NATO airspace, and the Baltics want more than fighter patrols to stop them.
Europe · Russia · Air Defense · NATO · Latvia · Baltic Air Policing
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Ukraine has netted 822 km of frontline roads against Russian FPVs
Ukraine says it has strung 822 km of anti-drone netting over frontline roads this year, doubling its pace to keep supply and evacuation traffic alive under the FPV threat.
Ukraine · drones · counter-drone · FPV · logistics
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China is building air-defense mass opposite Taiwan while America spends its own
Beijing fielded the HQ-16F, a Patriot-class mobile air-defense missile, opposite Taiwan in the same weeks the US burned through the interceptors it would need to defend the island. The contest is magazine depth, not exquisite platforms.
China · Air Defense · taiwan · interceptors · patriot
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Iran fires its first ballistic salvo at Israel since the April truce
Iran's first ballistic strike since April aimed at two of Israel's main air bases; the IDF claims a clean intercept, and the exchange now sits on top of the US-Iran talks.
Iran · Israel · Air Defense · ballistic missiles · Hezbollah · Nevatim
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Trump orders faster military AI and bars vendors from switching off fielded models
A new national security memo tells the Pentagon to onboard frontier commercial AI at speed, strips vendors of the power to shut it down mid-mission, and resets the rules for autonomous weapons within 90 days.
USA · Policy · AI · Anthropic · autonomous weapons · Pentagon
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Russia strikes Ukraine's central spent-fuel store at Chornobyl with a Shahed
A Russian drone hit the receiving building of the Holtec-built dry-cask site that freed Ukraine from shipping its nuclear waste to Russia, metres from where spent fuel sits.
Ukraine · Russia · Policy · Chornobyl · Energoatom · shahed
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US clears nearly $2 billion Anduril counter-drone sale to Kuwait after Iranian airport strike
The State Department's $1.98 billion approval puts Anduril's electronic and kinetic drone defenses in the Gulf days after an Iranian drone hit Kuwait's main airport.
USA · Iran · Air Defense · Anduril · Kuwait · counter-drone · C-UAS
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Shield AI flies a V-BAT and Hornet strike drones as one autonomous team
Shield AI says one AI flew a V-BAT and Destinus Hornet drones as a single team in Oklahoma, a milestone arriving days after a Reuters investigation into V-BAT crashes and a whistleblower's claims about its autonomy.
USA · Autonomy · Shield AI · Hivemind · V-BAT · Destinus
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Russia's offensive stalls as Ukraine nets ground in May, and drones get the credit
Kyiv took back more ground than it lost for a second straight month, and independent trackers credit its drone strikes for choking Russian logistics.
Ukraine · Russia · drones · ISW · DeepState · Oleksandrivka
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Ukraine's drone makers can win Pentagon money. The price is becoming American companies.
To reach the Pentagon's $1.1 billion Drone Dominance program, Ukraine's combat-shaped drone firms must stand up US legal entities, hand signing authority to US citizens, build on American soil, and open their technical files. The capability crosses the Atlantic; the ownership and the IP stay behind.
Ukraine · USA · Drone Dominance · F-Drones · General Cherry · Kongsberg · raytheon · drones · procurement
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Six firms built the Army an autonomous counter-drone hunter-killer in under a week
At Operation Jailbreak, six firms wired a radar 'Hunter' and a gun-armed 'Killer' into one autonomous counter-drone kill chain in under a week, the Army's argument that it can integrate at software speed.
USA · Autonomy · Operation Jailbreak · Anduril · Allen Control Systems · Lattice
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Ukraine strikes St. Petersburg again, burning fuel terminals as Putin's forum closes
A second deep-strike raid in three days hit Russia's Baltic Fleet hub and a cluster of northwest fuel sites about 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine, forcing St. Petersburg's first stay-indoors order since 2022.
Ukraine · Russia · drones · Kronstadt · SPIEF
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Ukraine's Yartura builds an AI interceptor that re-attacks a drone until it kills it
The Dancer 4.5.0 matches the speed of Russia's newest Shahed variants and keeps re-engaging after a miss, the gap that has limited cheap drone-on-drone defense.
Ukraine · drones · Yartura · Dancer 4.5.0 · interceptor drone · shahed
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Taiwan plans to build up to 1,376 ship-borne air-defense missiles to ride out a PLA saturation strike
Taiwan plans to mass-produce up to 1,376 Hai Chien II naval air-defense missiles, stockpiling indigenous weapons to survive a Chinese saturation strike.
China · Hai Chien II · Tuo Chiang · Hua Yang VLS · NCSIST · Air Defense
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Ukraine's drone units say they have hit 174 Russian air-defense systems in 2026
Ukraine's drone force says cheap one-way drones have hit 174 Russian air-defense systems worth $5.4 billion this year, the suppression work that opens its deep-strike lanes.
Ukraine · Russia · Air Defense · Unmanned Systems Forces · pantsir · SEAD
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Eric Schmidt's $5,000 Hornet drone is hunting Russian supply trucks in occupied Ukraine
A $5,000 drone from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Perennial Autonomy is letting Ukraine burn Russian supply trucks deep behind the front.
Ukraine · Russia · drones · Hornet · Perennial Autonomy · Eric Schmidt · Azov