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  1. Ukraine strikes the Voronezh chip plant feeding Russia's Iskander, Kh-101 and Pantsir Ukraine's deep strikes reached the chip plant that feeds Russian missile guidance, hitting the supply chain behind the weapons fired at its cities, the General Staff said. Ukraine · Russia · drones
  2. France orders 5,000 more soldier drones from Harmattan AI, its Dassault-backed unicorn After 1,000 Sonora drones proved out in France's largest exercise since the Cold War, the DGA quintupled the order to 5,000, scaling its Dassault-backed national drone champion. Europe · drones · Harmattan AI
  3. Rafael and SpearUAV put a hard-kill drone interceptor on the vehicle itself The Iron Dome maker is pushing aerial interception down to the individual vehicle, aimed at the fiber-optic FPV drones that shrug off jammers on the front. Israel · air defense · Rafael
  4. Leonardo's M-346 flies Baykar's Kizilelma drone by command in first K-SWARM trial An Italian jet trainer took control of an armed Turkish stealth drone in flight, Europe's first hardware step into the loyal-wingman race the US is already producing. Europe · Autonomy · Leonardo
  5. STARK's €2.5 Billion Valuation Hinges on Bundeswehr Deliveries STARK is reported in talks to raise €300M at €2.5B. Its German contract carries qualification gates and a cap, and its Virtus drone has both struck targets in Ukraine and missed them in Western trials. Europe · Ukraine · Funding
  6. China curbs dual-use exports to 10 US defense firms, including the rare-earth miners Washington backs Beijing's new export-control list answers the Pentagon's China blacklist and pointedly names the two US rare-earth miners Washington is funding to break China's grip on the minerals. China · USA · Policy
  7. MDA Space buys RTX's Blue Canyon for $620M to break into US defense space Canada's MDA gets a cleared US smallsat manufacturer, two Denver plants and a $3.5 billion defense pipeline for $620 million in cash. USA · Space · MDA Space
  8. Ukraine's The Fourth Law takes its AI drones to Lithuania for mass production A memorandum signed at Eurosatory pushes Ukrainian combat-AI off the front line and into a NATO production base, with the frontline feedback loop intact and the hiring reserved for Ukrainians. Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
  9. Germany takes 40% of KNDS, betting the state should own Europe's tank championPro Berlin will take 40% of the Leopard 2 maker KNDS, matching France and clearing a €15-18 billion IPO. The deal shows Europe paying for rearmament two ways at once: the state buying back legacy primes, and venture capital flooding the startups. Europe · knds · Germany
  10. Ukraine's I-SEE opens its drone-defense software to outside developers I-SEE is betting that letting frontline units rewrite their own counter-drone software, in days rather than months, is how battlefield defenses keep pace with a threat that mutates nightly. Ukraine · air defense · I-SEE
  11. Fire Point's strike drones reach Siberia as Ukraine pushes the deep-strike map past 2,000km Ukrainian maker Fire Point now fields strike drones from 50 to 3,000 kilometers, the range behind Kyiv's deepest strike of the war and a worsening Russian fuel crisis. Ukraine · drones · Fire Point
  12. Ukraine's drone industry has found its next customer: Asia's fear of China Ukrainian drone makers are pitching Japan and Taiwan their combat-proven systems, turning four years of war with Russia into an export-and-deterrence play aimed at China. Ukraine · China · drones
  13. A two-year-old cyberwar startup hits $1 billion building offensive tools for the Pentagon Twenty becomes a unicorn selling AI systems built to carry out US cyber attacks, a corner of national security that venture capital has mostly stayed out of. USA · Funding · Twenty
  14. Palladyne's drone-swarm software wins its first funded Army contracts A system that lets one soldier fly a mixed drone swarm moves from demonstration to paid Army field validation, a step toward a program of record. USA · Autonomy · Palladyne AI
  15. Swarm Biotactics wires live cockroaches as battlefield sensors. The Bundeswehr is paying to test them. A Kassel-registered, California-run startup has raised 13 million euros to turn Madagascar hissing cockroaches into ISR sensors, and the German military's Cyber Innovation Hub is funding a troop trial called AutoBugs. Europe · USA · Autonomy
  16. Arash-2Pro The "bigger brother" of the Shahed-136 — Iran's large, long-range kamikaze drone, unveiled with the boast that it was built to hit Tel Aviv and Haifa. Claimed to fly ~2,000 km with an anti-radar seeker, it's real and fielded — and US forces have already blown one up. Iran · missiles · loitering-munition
  17. Kheibar ShekanPro Iran's solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile — quick to launch, road-mobile, and tipped with a maneuvering warhead that jinks in its final seconds to dodge interceptors. It flew in Iran's 2024 barrages on Israel, and its booster later seeded the Fattah-1. Iran · missiles · mrbm
  18. PekloPro Ukraine's "Hell" — a jet-powered missile-drone, the faster sibling of Palianytsia. Built in under a year and already in serial production, it flies a mini-cruise-missile profile to hit Russian refineries, depots and airfields, and was used in the June 2026 Moscow oil-refinery strike. Ukraine · missiles · deep-strike
  19. Kh-69Pro Russia's stealthy precision cruise missile — a low-flying, low-radar-signature weapon shaped to fit inside the Su-57's bays. Launched from tactical jets with little warning, it destroyed the Trypilska power plant near Kyiv in 2024 and now spearheads the campaign against Ukraine's grid. Russia · missiles · cruise-missile
  20. SupercamPro One of Russia's two workhorse spotter drones in Ukraine, alongside the Orlan-10. A small catapult-launched aircraft full of off-the-shelf civilian electronics, the Supercam is the eye that cues Russian artillery and Lancet strikes — slow, jammable, and shot down by the hundred. Russia · drones · isr
  21. RCH 155Pro KNDS's wheeled 155mm howitzer — a fully automated PzH 2000-class gun on a Boxer 8×8, and the only turreted howitzer in the world that can fire accurately on the move. Ukraine is the launch customer; shoot-and-scoot survivability for the drone-saturated battlefield. Europe · Land · howitzer
  22. 3rd KhordadPro Iran's mobile medium-to-long-range SAM — a self-contained launcher-radar vehicle from the indigenous Raad family, Iran's rough Buk equivalent. It shot down a US RQ-4 Global Hawk over the Strait of Hormuz in 2019, the country's most famous air-defence kill. Iran · air defense · sam
  23. Fattah-2Pro Iran's hypersonic-glide evolution of the Fattah-1 — a missile pairing a solid-fuel booster with a maneuvering liquid-fuel glide vehicle, claimed to reach Mach 15 over ~1,500 km. Topical after the Israel–Iran exchanges, but its real performance is heavily disputed. Iran · missiles · hypersonic
  24. CH-7 RainbowPro China's stealth flying-wing UCAV — the CASC CH-7 (Rainbow-7), a tailless, low-observable high-altitude drone for deep-penetration ISR and strike. Debuted as a mockup in 2018; it finally flew in late 2025. The export-line peer to the GJ-11 and Russia's Okhotnik. China · drones · ucav
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