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Geran-5Pro
The largest and fastest member of Russia's Geran family — a 6.5-metre, cruise-missile-shaped "missile-drone" flying at up to 600 km/h with a 90 kg warhead, air-launchable from a Su-25 and reportedly able to carry an air-to-air missile of its own.
Russia · Iran · missiles
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Pegasus Turned Moscow Flights Back Hours After Zelensky Said Russia's Sky Is Closing
Ukraine's long-range drone volume is forcing Russia to halt its own flights, and that is changing the risk calculation for the foreign carriers that still profit from shorter routes across the country.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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In-Q-Tel's Network, Not Its Capital, Opened Quantum Systems' Path to the CIA and FBI
Quantum Systems' co-CEO says In-Q-Tel's Washington connections, not its capital, built the $8 billion German drone maker's first US government business.
Europe · USA · Funding
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Smack Technologies Raises $61 Million to Put AI on an Operator's Wrist
Alpha trades a helmet display for a simpler interface, but must deliver useful decisions with little or no connectivity.
USA · Funding · Smack Technologies
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Navy Sets $30 Million Ceiling for Carrier Combat Drone
The service wants two prototypes that can survive catapult launches, arrested landings and Sea State 5 within a three-year certification sprint.
USA · Autonomy · Collaborative Combat Aircraft
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The Pentagon Gave Missile Makers 21 Days. Only Some of Them Could Answer.Pro
A 21-day Pentagon ultimatum and the Aug. 31 Patriot/THAAD framework deals reveal the real constraint is funded orders and sub-tier suppliers, not factory space, opening room for a purpose-built entrant like Castelion.
USA · Lockheed Martin · RTX
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Russia's Sixth-Straight-Night Barrage Kills Six Rail Workers at Kyiv Depot
More than 200 drones and decoys pressed Ukraine's air defenses as ballistic missiles reached a transit node on Kyiv's left bank, six years into a war Russia is escalating with the country's Patriot stocks thin.
Ukraine · air defense · Ukrzaliznytsia
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Denmark Cleared 20-Plus Legal Barriers to Put Ukraine's Rocket Fuel Beyond Russia's Reach
Denmark removed more than 20 legislative barriers so Fire Point could cast solid rocket propellant at Vojens, beyond the strikes hunting its Ukrainian plants. The site now carries a 150 million euro budget, nearly triple the original, and slips to the end of 2027.
Ukraine · Europe · Policy
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Europe Signed €7.3 Billion of Air Defense on Monday. None of It Reaches Ukraine This Winter.
Greece and Sweden committed €7.3 billion to new air defense on Monday, one day before EU ministers meet to ask Athens for the Patriot interceptors it already owns.
Europe · Ukraine · air defense
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Japan Wants an AI Orchestrator and Underwater Attack Drones. Its Drone Market Runs on Chinese Imports.
Tokyo's record 8.9 trillion yen request buys AI command-and-control, underwater attack drones and government-owned weapons factories, but the domestic drone industry it assumes does not exist yet.
China · Autonomy · Japan Defense Ministry
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The Pentagon Put Three AI Vendors on One Platform. Their Terms Are Not the Same.
The Department of War put OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok on GenAI.mil the same day, and the limits each vendor accepts now differ more than the models do.
USA · Autonomy · OpenAI
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Israel Signs €3 Billion Achilles Shield Deal, Its First Export of a Complete Air-Defense Array
Greece is buying Israel's complete layered air-defense architecture, marking the first full-array export in Israel's history.
Israel · Europe · air defense
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Zelensky Orders 1,000 Drones a Day as Russian Refining Hits a 20-Year Low
Ukraine's refinery campaign is converting drone volume into lost Russian fuel, exports and revenue. Moscow's warehouse strikes on Kyiv impose severe civilian costs, but the confirmed damage has yet to expose a comparable economic bottleneck.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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Taiwan Signed for 2,032 Anduril Drones the Day Lawmakers Capped Its Own
The American order has fixed quantities and deliveries running to 2033, while Taiwan's far larger domestic drone program was handed an annual ceiling already below what the defense ministry planned to spend next year.
China · USA · drones
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Dataminr Takes $318 Million to Be the Military's Alerting Layer, Running 60 Small Models
The Air Force bought an enterprise open-source alerting subscription for the whole US military — competitively, and from a vendor that says it deliberately avoided frontier models.
USA · Autonomy · Dataminr
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One Soldier, 21 Drones: The Army's Breaching Truck Leaves the Demo Range
The Army's autonomous breaching package finished two weeks of live fire at Fort Bragg built almost entirely from small-vendor hardware, and goes to Fort Irwin in October.
USA · Autonomy · Project Sandhills
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Radiant Locked In Its Reactor Fuel Six Days Before the Army Committed $750 Million
A binding TRISO fuel contract signed six days before the Army's Janus award is what lets Radiant promise sealed, pre-fueled microreactors to Fort Benning. The reactor was never the hard part.
USA · Policy · Partner Signal
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Russia Put a Jammer on the Geran. Ukraine's $2,000 Shield Just Got a Second Bill.Pro
Russia first outran Ukraine's cheap drone shield. Now it is blinding the operators, pushing the defense toward onboard guidance and digital links that erode the interceptor's defining cost advantage.
Ukraine · Russia · air defense
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DroneShield Has A$240 Million Committed for 2026, A$43 Million Beyond
Counter-drone demand is producing revenue, but DroneShield's order book thins sharply after this year while its expanded cost base weighs on profit.
USA · air defense · DroneShield
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Russia Put Three Odesa Ports on Its Own Target List. Ukraine's Drones Reached Ozon the Same Night.
Both sides now aim at the commercial infrastructure that moves the other's goods, and both say so openly: Moscow claimed strikes on three Odesa ports, and drone damage shut Ozon's Ufa warehouse for inspections.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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Tencore and Insta Set a 320-Robot First Target for a Finnish TerMIT Line
Tencore and Insta signed a Joint Statement of Intent in Kyiv on Aug. 23 to build TerMIT 2.0 ground robots in Finland. The first target is 320 units for Ukraine's Defense Forces. No contract value, no sites and no schedule have been named.
Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
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Ukraine's Ground Robots Passed 100,000 Missions. Now the Ministry Writes the Spec.
Ukraine has logged more than 100,000 unmanned ground vehicle missions this year, and its procurement agency has just started buying whole classes of ground robots to ministry-written specifications.
Ukraine · Autonomy · UGV
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NGC2 Reaches Scale as the Army's Drone-Warfare Leadership UnravelsPro
Ukraine showed that drone warfare turns on the network connecting sensors and shooters. The US Army now has a working answer in NGC2, but the leaders and the unit that forced its adoption are being removed as the technology matures.
Ukraine · USA · Autonomy
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Mara Raised $7 Million for a 250-Gram Interceptor It Says Costs Less Than What It Guards
Mara closed a $7 million pre-seed for Spike, a counter-drone system built around a 250-gram autonomous interceptor priced to beat the FPV drones now driving most combat casualties.
USA · Ukraine · Autonomy