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- Yartura DancerPro The Yartura Dancer 4.5.0 is a Ukrainian fixed-wing interceptor drone that reaches 450 km/h and uses an AI homing system to re-attack a target drone until it is destroyed — built against the fast jet-powered variants of Russia's Shahed/Geran family. Ukraine · drones · interceptor
- Victor U250Pro The Victor U250 is a German hybrid-electric heavy-lift cargo drone from ERC System, an IABG subsidiary, built to carry up to 250 kg over 300 km for battlefield resupply — targeting the gap between small cargo drones and crewed helicopters, with Rheinmetall backing production. Europe · drones · cargo-drone
- VeprPro Vepr is a Ukrainian tracked ground robot for frontline logistics and casualty evacuation — 350 kg of cargo or two wounded, ~40 km per charge, plus remote demining, recovery and one-way strike roles. Codified by Ukraine's MoD in June 2026 after two years on the front. Ukraine · drones · UGV
- Mach Industries AtlasPro Mach Industries' Atlas is a hybrid-electric, runway-independent strike drone being developed under DIU's RIMES program to carry 1,000-pound munitions 1,400 nautical miles from destroyer decks and austere sites — and come back to rearm. USA · drones · uas
- AeroVironment P550Pro The AeroVironment P550 is a runway-independent, battery-electric eVTOL reconnaissance drone built for the US Army's Long-Range Reconnaissance program, giving battalion commanders up to five hours of modular ISR, relay, electronic-warfare and strike capability. USA · drones · uav
- UVision CORTEXPro UVision's CORTEX is a battle-intelligence and mission-management layer, launched in June 2026, that fuses sensor feeds and routes targets to the company's Hero, Viper and Peregrine loitering munitions, letting one operator supervise many munitions across air, land and sea. Israel · software · command-software
- Palladyne SwarmOSPro Palladyne AI's SwarmOS is a decentralized edge-autonomy software stack built to let one operator command a mixed swarm of drones from different manufacturers without a cloud link — run inside the US Army's NGC2 prototype at Ivy Mass 2026, now under Army and AFRL validation contracts. USA · software · Autonomy
- D-Fend EnforceAirPro D-Fend's EnforceAir is an Israeli counter-drone system that detects a rogue drone's radio protocol, takes over its control link and lands it at a predefined safe spot - no jamming, no shooting. Motorola Solutions agreed in June 2026 to buy D-Fend for $1.5 billion. Israel · Space · counter-uav
- Saronic CorsairPro The Saronic Corsair is a 24-foot (7.3 m) American autonomous surface vessel built for mass production. In June 2026 a Task Force 59 Corsair recovered a downed Apache crew off Oman — the first at-sea personnel rescue ever carried out by an uncrewed vessel. USA · drones · USV
- Shield AI X-BATPro Shield AI's X-BAT is a runway-independent, tail-sitting VTOL autonomous combat jet flown by the company's Hivemind AI pilot — a claimed 3,700+ km range from a trailer launcher, no runway required, with first flight planned for late 2026 and a production pitch to Poland. USA · drones · vtol
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Shield AI's V-BAT is finding the targets for Ukraine's campaign to cut off Crimea
A CBS News report from Kyiv details how Shield AI's V-BAT reconnaissance drone finds targets for the Ukrainian strike campaign that has hit dozens of Russian tankers and left Crimea rationing fuel.
Ukraine · Autonomy · Shield AI
- Overland AI ULTRAPro The Overland AI ULTRA is a purpose-built, fully autonomous American uncrewed ground vehicle pairing the DARPA RACER-derived OverDrive autonomy stack with a modular light platform — the subject of the US Marine Corps' first production buy of autonomous ground vehicles. USA · drones · UGV
- DARTPro DART is a Ukrainian balloon-launched strike missile: dropped from a stratospheric aerostat at 12-18 km, it shuts off its own navigation at ~6 km and finishes on a fixed solid-fuel course, leaving Russian jamming nothing to attack. Its graphite warhead is built to short out power grids. Ukraine · missiles · deep-strike
- MOBIDIKPro MOBIDIK is a modular Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel family from Avarid, unveiled in June 2026 in six combat variants spanning maritime air defense, medium- and strategic-range strike, missile-and-gun engagement and a 300 kg assault configuration. Ukraine · drones · naval-drone
- Iron WaspPro Iron Wasp is a vehicle-mounted hard-kill counter-drone interceptor from Rafael and SpearUAV: a capsule-launched interceptor drone, derived from SpearUAV's Viper I, that lets armored vehicles physically destroy FPV drones and loitering munitions while on the move. Israel · Air Defense · counter-UAS
- ASGARDPro ASGARD is the British Army's AI-enabled "digital targeting web" — a multi-vendor recce-strike network fusing sensors, AI decision support and strike systems. The Army says it cut a corps planning cycle from 72 hours to one and multiplied daily targets tenfold. Europe · software · c2
- Volna Kupol GarantPro Volna Kupol Garant ("Wave Dome Guarantor") is Russia's trailer-mounted electronic-warfare complex built to jam Starlink's Ku-band uplink, denying Ukraine's Starlink-guided strike drones their control link across a roughly 20-square-kilometer bubble. Russia · Space · electronic-warfare
- Kraken K3 ScoutPro The Kraken K3 Scout is a UK-built 8.4-metre high-speed uncrewed surface vessel — 55 knots, 600 kg modular payload — fielded by the Royal Navy under Project Beehive and the first drone boat ever airdropped from a transport aircraft. Europe · drones · USV
- Anduril BarracudaPro Anduril's Barracuda is a family of low-cost, turbojet-powered autonomous cruise missiles — Barracuda-100, -250 and -500 — built for mass production, with a Pentagon order for at least 3,000 rounds and co-production lines planned in Poland and Taiwan. USA · Europe · missiles
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Iran fires on US bases in four countries as CENTCOM hits 90 more targets
Iran answered a second night of US strikes by firing on bases in four countries, aiming, by its own account, at a Patriot battery in Kuwait and an early-warning radar in Qatar.
Iran · Air Defense · CENTCOM
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Ukraine Finished the Refinery List. Now It Has to Keep Them Offline.
A $50,000 drone flew 2,500 kilometers to Omsk and completed a target list Kyiv worked through for two years. Reach is no longer the problem. What remains is a race between repair crews and strike tempo, and a second front against the tankers that move whatever Russia still refines.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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Kraken raises $175M at a $1bn valuation, days after airdropping a drone boat from an A400M
A $175 million Series B makes Kraken Technology Group Europe's newest maritime-defence unicorn, a week after its uncrewed K3 SCOUT became the first drone boat parachuted into the sea from a transport aircraft.
Europe · Naval · Kraken Technology Group
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Quantum Systems Sends Ukraine's National Guard Ten Ground Robots and Ten Driverless Trucks
A week after its $1.2 billion raise, the Munich drone maker moves from the air onto the ground in Ukraine, fielding its Mandrill robot and autonomy-fitted Zetros trucks for combat validation with the National Guard.
Ukraine · Autonomy · Quantum Systems
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Russia fields Volna Kupol Garant jammers against Ukraine's Starlink strike drones
Russia has begun fielding Volna Kupol Garant jammers that blank Starlink over 20 square kilometers, the network most of Ukraine's long-range strike drones fly on, Reuters reports, but the complexes radiate a signature loud enough to become targets.
Ukraine · Russia · Electronic Warfare