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Ukraine Says 70-Plus AI Systems Help Its Drones Strike Through Russian Jamming
Ukraine's Defence Ministry says more than 70 AI and computer-vision systems already strike targets and that every frontline drone should carry machine vision, with terminal guidance that holds a target after Russian jamming cuts the link.
Ukraine · Autonomy · Ukraine Ministry of Defence
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The Army Puts $46 Million Into Elroy Air's Autonomous Cargo Drone
The Army is paying $46 million for an autonomous hybrid-VTOL that can resupply several positions per sortie with no runway, no pilot and nobody at the drop point, and to make that work under jamming.
USA · Autonomy · Elroy Air
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Smoke Over Russia's Sverdlov Explosives Plant After a Third Reported Drone Strike
Ukrainian drones reached Dzerzhinsk overnight and OSINT traced the smoke to the Sverdlov plant, which fills Russian artillery shells and aerial bombs. It is the third reported strike on the site since October.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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HII Ties Up to $900 Million in Shipbuilding Work to Robot Qualification
Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics must qualify autonomous production lines before HII assigns work under seven-year Navy shipbuilding agreements.
USA · Partner Signal · Path Robotics
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Russia's 3,000-a-Month Jet Gerans Outrun Ukraine's $2,000 Interceptors
Russia flew 76 jet-powered Gerans at Ukraine in daylight on Aug. 18. Turbojet drones now reach two-thirds of some waves and roll off Alabuga at about 3,000 a month, faster than the $2,000 interceptors that beat the Shahed. Kyiv's jet-powered answer is still in combat testing.
Ukraine · Russia · air defense
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Blue Ops Will Put Havoc Software on Its Variant 7 Drone Boats
Blue Ops supplies the drone boats and Havoc supplies the fleet software. Planned test fleets in two states are the next step toward a defense customer.
USA · Naval · Blue Ops
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The Air Force Will Test a Ruggedized Xos Charging Hub
An Air Force prototype agreement gives Xos a route into defense, but the commercial charging company must still adapt and deliver its mobile battery system for field use.
USA · Partner Signal · Xos
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Russia Says 620 Ukrainian Drones Flew at Moscow, the Second 600-Plus Night in Three Days
Ukraine is sustaining its deep-strike tempo against the capital while targeting the civilian logistics network it says supplies Russian drone units at the front.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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The $22.9 Billion Tomahawk Contract Runs Into an 18-Month Clock
The Navy's $22.9 billion, seven-year Tomahawk award gives Raytheon the certainty to build toward 1,000 missiles a year. It does not buy back the 1,000-plus fired at Iran: rocket-motor lead times set the clock, while Ukraine's Fire Point builds 100 cheaper cruise missiles a month.
USA · Iran · Ukraine
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The Navy Put $50 Million Into Shield AI's X-BAT. It Has Not Flown Yet.
A $50 million award pushes Shield AI's 22,000-pound VTOL jet toward ships with no flight deck, on the strength of ground tests rather than flight time.
USA · Autonomy · Shield AI
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Japan's Army Is Testing Helsing's HX-2. An E-Commerce Group Got It in the Door.
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force is field-testing a German loitering munition already flying in Ukraine, and Helsing reached the procurement system through a retail conglomerate rather than a defense prime.
Europe · Autonomy · Helsing
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Britain's £4.99 Million Nyan Contract Is Now Striking Russian Refineries
Callen-Lenz has moved from a rapid UK procurement award to supplying a mass-produced deep-strike drone for the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine · Russia · Europe
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Combined Resolve Exposed the Army's Slow Drone-Buying CyclePro
Ukrainian operators dismantled a US armored brigade in a German exercise. The Army's FY2027 answer shifts drone selection toward soldiers and tests whether industry can keep pace.
Ukraine · USA · Europe
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The Navy Sets a Date for AI at Sea, and a Metric to Judge It
An AI War Council and generative AI aboard ships by the first quarter of fiscal 2027, measured by how fast data becomes battlefield effect.
USA · Autonomy · Bits2Effects
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Ukraine Found a Consumer Nvidia Dev Board Inside Russia's New Stealth Cruise Missile
A module Nvidia sells to students and startups turned up as the onboard computer in a low-observable missile built for the Su-57's internal bay.
Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy
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Ukraine Says Its Domestic Weapons Damaged Four Warships at NovorossiyskPro
Ukraine's Aug. 12 strike put Russia's last major Black Sea Fleet base within reach while sparing the Kazakh oil infrastructure Washington had asked Kyiv to protect.
Ukraine · Russia · Naval
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NATO Builds an AI-and-Drone Network for Its Eastern Flank, but Keeps Humans on the Trigger
The alliance wants machines to compress the sensor-to-shooter timeline while humans retain control over lethal engagements.
Europe · Russia · Autonomy
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Palantir Faces $243.9 Million Sole-Source Push as Pentagon Formalizes Maven
Two Pentagon moves would deepen Palantir's hold on military software after Maven accelerated AI-assisted targeting during the Iran campaign.
USA · Iran · Autonomy
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Ukraine hit the Novorossiysk naval base and left the tankers alone
Ukraine's overnight strike reached Russia's relocated Black Sea Fleet base while the reported target set stayed inside Kyiv's agreement with Washington to spare pipeline infrastructure and qualifying non-Russian tankers.
Ukraine · Russia · Naval
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Iron Beam's Eight-Month Delay Exposes the Missile Interceptor Market's Staying PowerPro
Rafael's laser remains short of operational service while Elbit carries a record $32 billion backlog and Greece advances a $4 billion missile-defense package.
Israel · Europe · air defense
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F-Drones puts guidance on board as LITAVR+ passes 400 km/h
GPS-free navigation and autonomous terminal guidance move the intercept onto the aircraft as Russian jamming degrades external links.
Ukraine · Autonomy · F-Drones
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Neros triples valuation to $2.5 billion as Bandit moves toward combat
The $250 million round lands alongside the Pentagon's first Drone Dominance bonus order, tying Neros's valuation to drones actually delivered.
USA · Funding · Neros Technologies
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WINFLY's Spider spends a net, not the whole interceptor
The reusable drone cuts the cost of catching slow, low targets, but its 160 km/h speed leaves jet-powered Shaheds to faster interceptors.
Ukraine · drones · WINFLY
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A 25-person company put an 18-hour clock on Kremlin propaganda
A Vilnius startup measured Moscow's crisis-communication clock for NATO and turned counter-disinformation into a tempo problem the Alliance cannot yet meet. Europe is buying that sensing layer at seed-round prices.
Russia · Ukraine · Europe