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Ursa Major's $350 Million SPAC Raise Runs Into an Oxidizer Bottleneck
The deal could add missile motor capacity, but every new producer still draws ammonium perchlorate from the same constrained domestic supply chain.
USA · Funding · Ursa Major
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Shield AI put its aircraft autonomy stack on a satellite already in orbit
The retrofit moves Hivemind beyond Shield AI aircraft, but five virtual satellites show how far the demonstration remains from autonomous fleet operations.
USA · Autonomy · Shield AI
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Ukraine Went Back for the Wildberries Hub It Hit in July. This Time It Burned Down.
Ukraine's FP-1 drones finished a Tambov warehouse they first struck in July, turning repair for Russian owners from a one-time expense into a recurring cost.
Russia · Ukraine · drones
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Britain gets first foreign access to Ukraine's combat dataset
Three British startups have pilots under the new UK-Ukraine AI defense pact, but the first application will protect a UK military site rather than strike targets.
Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
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The Autonomous-Weapons Deadline Met a $249 Nvidia BoardPro
States reached 2026 without starting treaty negotiations on autonomous weapons. Autonomous targeting reached combat on an edge-computing module that U.S. export controls do not cover.
Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy
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A third drone and 50 grams of hexogen turned up beside Europe's Ukraine air bridge
The attempted attack on the airfield that loads ammunition onto Ukraine's Antonov freighters was larger than one drone with a broken detonator.
Europe · drones · Leipzig/Halle Airport
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Motorola closed the D-Fend deal a quarter early and gave counter-drone its own SVP
Motorola closed its $1.5 billion D-Fend purchase a quarter ahead of guidance and put D-Fend's chief executive over a standing counter-drone platform, a structure aimed at airports and stadiums rather than the front.
USA · electronic warfare · counter-drone
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General Dynamics Put a Three-Year-Old AI Startup Inside the Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
Deterrence has never held a Pentagon contract. Its first named assignment is the Mesquite line that took $533 million in Army funding and produced no usable shell.
USA · Policy · Partner Signal
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Putin Took Emergency Powers Over Russian Industry. A $50,000 Drone Is Why.Pro
Ukraine can put a Behemoth one-way attack drone over a Russian logistics hub for an estimated $35,000 to $50,000. Europe's newest €6.1 billion buys the costly systems that stop the return fire.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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A Consumer Developer Board Let a Russian Drone Pick Its Own Target
An Nvidia Jetson Orin gave Russia's mass-produced Molniya autonomous terminal targeting, with no radio control link for Ukrainian electronic warfare to jam.
Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy
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Germany Says Skyranger 30 Deliveries Slip to Mid-2027 as NATO Demand Builds
The delay pushes back Germany's mobile counter-drone defense while other European buyers commit to the same Rheinmetall system.
Europe · air defense · Rheinmetall
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Saildrone's Surveyor Fired Its First Missiles From a Lockheed Launcher at RIMPAC
Lockheed Martin bolted a JAGM launcher to the bow of a Saildrone Surveyor and the Navy's own fire control pulled the trigger at RIMPAC. The demonstration produced two shots and no order.
USA · Naval · Partner Signal
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Taiwan's NT$1.1225 Trillion Budget Leaves the Drone Order Unsettled
Taipei has cleared 3 percent of GDP, but the uncrewed mass that could decide a fight in the Strait remains trapped in a separate dispute over how money becomes orders.
China · taiwan · drones
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Turkiye's First Navy Drone Boat Just Laid Smart Mines With Nobody Aboard
MARLIN shifts a dangerous shallow-water mission from crewed warships to autonomy software carried by a modular unmanned hull.
Europe · Naval · MARLIN
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Erik Prince Is Selling Air Defense by Subscription. Swarmer Owns a Fifth of It.
Vectus packages layered defenses and autonomy software used in Ukraine into a managed service for governments and critical infrastructure operators.
USA · air defense · Vectus Air Defense Systems
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Terra Closes Africa's Largest Seed Round and Points It at London
The Nigerian drone maker raised $52 million on a pitch about defense sovereignty, then aimed its expansion at Western capital and procurement institutions.
Europe · USA · Funding
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Ukraine Asks Musk to Unlock Starlink for Drones Hunting Russian Missile Launchers
Kyiv wants to strike the launchers behind Russia's ballistic attacks, but SpaceX controls whether its drones can cross the border with satellite guidance.
Ukraine · drones · Starlink
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NODA AI Says It Won $100 Million. The Notice Behind It Describes a Contest.
A two-year-old autonomy startup announced a $100 million Pentagon contract. The federal notice matching that description is a prize challenge offering up to $100 million across multiple awards.
USA · Autonomy · NODA AI
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The Army Is Unwinding the Drone Battalion It Built to Learn From Ukraine
The Army stood up a 600-soldier battalion in January to turn Ukraine's drone lessons into US tactics. Eight months later it is taking the drone mission away and has not said what replaces it.
USA · drones · 173rd Airborne Brigade
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Castelion Raises $1 Billion to Build Hypersonic Missiles by the Thousand
Castelion's $1 billion Series C at a $13 billion valuation puts private money behind a Pentagon production plan that still depends on successful tests, a procurement contract and Congress.
USA · Funding · Castelion
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Russia Fired Onyx, Zircon, Iskander and S-400 Missiles at Kyiv. Ukraine Has One System That Stops Them.
The Aug. 20 barrage on Kyiv killed at least 16 and exposed the gap between Russia's ballistic missile salvos and the Patriot interceptor production needed to stop them.
Ukraine · Russia · air defense
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Nammo Will Supply the Warheads for Heaviside's Autonomous Munitions
Heaviside's $60 million Series B came with a warhead-supply agreement from Nammo, the Norwegian maker with 27 production sites. The startup still has no named program and no delivery date.
USA · Europe · Funding
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Lyntris's $1.78 Billion Debut Sets a Harder Defense-Tech Price
Lyntris priced below range, cut its IPO by seven million shares and fell 11.4% on debut. Public investors now want GAAP profit, lower leverage and core growth from defense tech, while private capital still entertains an Anduril valuation near $100 billion.
USA · Funding · Lyntris
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The Pentagon Pays Overland AI $14.3 Million to Put Breaching Gear on Driverless Heavy Trucks
Six commercial trucks will carry mine-clearing, lane-marking and counter-drone payloads for combat engineers under a $14.3 million sole-source Overland AI contract due in October 2027.
USA · Autonomy · Overland AI