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  1. Boeing says chamber tests validate the MQ-28 Ghost Bat's low radar signature Boeing says anechoic-chamber testing confirms a low radar cross-section for its uncrewed MQ-28 Ghost Bat, a survivability claim that feeds straight into the contested race to field cheap loyal-wingman jets. USA · Air · stealth · radar · CCA · loyal-wingman · Boeing · Autonomy
  2. GDIT and AWS Use a Desert E-Bike Race to Pressure-Test Battlefield Logistics AI GDIT and AWS are testing battlefield logistics AI on a Baja 1000 race bike, treating the thousand-mile desert course as a proxy for the comms-denied terrain the software is meant to run on. USA · Autonomy · GDIT · AWS · DOGMA · Project Celerity · predictive logistics
  3. Sybiha turns Russia's 729-weapon strike into a financing demand for Patriots Ukraine's foreign minister told partners to "act, not only condemn" after a 729-weapon overnight strike, naming a specific funding route to buy more Patriots. Ukraine · Air Defense · patriot · PURL · Russia · diplomacy
  4. Ukraine stopped 642 of 729 Russian weapons on June 2. It could not stop the ballistic missiles. Russia's June 2 barrage on Kyiv and Dnipro confirmed an air war split into two tiers with opposite economics, and Russia is firing into the one Ukraine cannot defend. Ukraine · Air Defense · missiles · drones · Russia · patriot
  5. Russia took 14 km² in Ukraine in May, its worst month since 2023 Russia captured just 14 km² of Ukraine in May, its lowest monthly total since 2023, and DeepState says the net change went negative as Ukraine clawed back more than Russia took. Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy · Battlefield · DeepState
  6. France boards a sanctioned Russian shadow-fleet tanker 400 miles off Brittany French commandos rappelled onto the sanctioned tanker Tagor in the Atlantic, the fourth such boarding since September, as Western navies move shadow-fleet enforcement from paperwork to physical interdiction. Europe · Russia · Naval · sanctions · shadow-fleet
  7. Uvision's CORTEX puts one operator over many loitering munitions Uvision's new CORTEX software puts one operator in charge of many loitering munitions at once, a bid to own the command layer over the swarm rather than just the munition. Israel · Autonomy · loitering-munitions · drone-swarm · battle-management · Uvision · CORTEX · Hero
  8. Motorola buys Israel's D-Fend for $1.5 billion, a bet on drone-hijacking tech Motorola is paying $1.5 billion for a counter-drone firm whose RF takeover seizes a drone's control link, the same link Ukraine's fiber-optic drones are built to fly without. Israel · USA · drones · Funding · counter-drone · C-UAS · D-Fend · Motorola · EnforceAir · acquisition
  9. Germany Sends New IRIS-T as Ukraine Flags Missile Shortage Germany has sent Ukraine another IRIS-T, a useful addition if missile stocks keep pace with Russia's drone and cruise-missile volume. Ukraine · Europe · Air Defense
  10. Poland Signs 62 Defense Contracts Worth €28 Billion Under the EU's SAFE Loan Program Warsaw signed the deals between May 28 and 30 to beat an EU deadline, with about 89% of the money going to domestic firms led by state group PGZ. Europe · Funding · poland · SAFE · procurement · artillery · drones · pgz
  11. Chinese firm Star-Navi sells a spray-on radar coating for drones by the kilogram Shenzhen-based Star-Navi sells the sprayable XRAM-C coatings in 1, 5 and 10 kilogram containers, Defence Blog reported, putting a modest radar-evasion gain with drones · China · stealth · radar · electronic warfare
  12. Switzerland Evaluates More Than Four Patriot Alternatives Amid US Delivery Delays Multi-year delays to its US Patriot order have pushed Switzerland to gather information on European, Israeli and South Korean systems, with a Federal Council decision expected this summer, hartpunkt reported. Europe · Air Defense
  13. AVILUS completes first flight of its Wespe cargo and medevac helicopter drone AVILUS's new coaxial-rotor drone is built to carry up to 200 kg of cargo or casualties as far as 300 km with no crew aboard. Air · AVILUS · Bundeswehr · Europe · Wespe · drones · logistics drone · medevac
  14. Helsing unveils a walking robot and a research arm it has no plans to sell Helsing showed the RX-1 quadruped and its Area 9 research unit in Paris on June 1 and said it will give the robot to universities rather than sell it, as Ukraine fields tens of thousands of ground robots and China's Unitree dominates the quadruped market. Europe · Autonomy · robotics · Helsing · ground-robots · UGV · defense-industry
  15. Ukraine commits $113 million to scale 'logistics lockdown' drone strikes on Russia's rear Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has put about $113 million behind a campaign of mid-range drone strikes on Russian supply lines. ISW links the pressure to Russia's first monthly territorial loss since 2024. drones · Ukraine · Russia · Funding · deep-strike · logistics · defense-industry
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