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BullfrogPro
An AI-driven robotic gun that shoots drones out of the sky with ordinary bullets — the "magazine-deep, ten-dollar-a-kill" answer to FPV and swarm attacks. Computer vision lays the gun; a human pulls the trigger. Fielded with the US Army and Navy and now valued at $2.2 billion.
USA · air defense · counter-UAS
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Shield AI HivemindPro
Shield AI's "AI pilot" — software that flies aircraft and drones with no remote pilot, no GPS and no datalink, and swarms them under one operator. It cued a strike on a Russian Buk deep in jammed territory, and in June 2026 won a US Air Force production contract for the drone-wingman program.
USA · software · Autonomy
- VyrivniuvachPro Ukraine's first home-built guided glide bomb — a clamp-on wing-and-guidance kit that turns a dumb 250-kg bomb into a stand-off precision weapon, the Ukrainian answer to Russia's devastating FAB-UMPK. Declared combat-ready in May 2026; no confirmed strike yet. Ukraine · missiles · glide-bomb
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Anduril LatticePro
Anduril's "operating system for war" — software that fuses sensors into one picture and commands swarms of autonomous systems at machine speed, letting one operator run many drones. It anchors a $20B US Army contract and the Air Force's drone-wingman program.
USA · software · c2
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Maven Smart SystemPro
The Pentagon's AI targeting brain — Palantir-built software that fuses hundreds of intelligence feeds, uses computer vision and large language models to find and track targets, and runs the whole sensor-to-shooter loop. In the Iran war the US says it helped strike ~1,000 targets in a day.
USA · software · c2
- Sea TridentPro Ukraine's first heavy underwater drone — a ~10-tonne autonomous submarine pitched for strike, cargo and the unusual role of hunting other underwater drones. Unveiled at Eurosatory 2026, every figure is vendor-declared and unproven. Ukraine · drones · uuv
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DeltaPro
Ukraine's "Google for the military" — a cloud battlefield-awareness and command system that fuses drone, satellite, sensor and intelligence feeds into one shared map and, the military says, compresses the find-to-strike cycle from days to minutes. The first software entry in the Lexicon.
Ukraine · c2 · battle-management
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SkyFall P1-SunPro
Ukraine's ~$1,000 answer to the Shahed: a partly-3D-printed interceptor drone that rams or proximity-detonates against incoming attack drones — the cheap, kinetic, deterrence-by-denial weapon now gaining an onboard AI eye that spots a Shahed faster than a human pilot.
Ukraine · drones · interceptor drone
- Geran-4Pro Russia's jet-powered Shahed, built to outfly the cheap interceptor drones that were knocking propeller Shaheds down. Early figures said the speed cost it range. A year of upgrades says otherwise: 850 km declared, 960 km flown, 96% of Ukraine in reach. Russia · missiles · one-way-attack-drone
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Fiber-Optic FPV Drone
The jam-proof attack drone reshaping the front: a standard FPV flown down a hair-thin glass fiber instead of a radio link — immune to every electronic-warfare countermeasure, and the weapon that pushed the "kill zone" from 10–20 km out to 50.
Russia · Ukraine · drones
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Russia Moved Its Air Defenses Home to Guard Moscow. The Drones Went Through Anyway.
Ukraine's largest strike on Moscow in years broke three layers of reinforced air defense and burned the same refinery twice in a week, turning the deep-strike campaign into a sustained bombing of Russia's energy economy its scarce interceptors cannot stop.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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A US startup turns 500,000 hours of Ukraine drone war footage into AI training data
Enabled Intelligence has packaged more than 500,000 hours of real Ukraine combat drone video into a ready-to-train dataset, now open to US, Ukrainian and NATO users.
Ukraine · USA · Autonomy
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Netherlands puts €250M into Dutch-made drones for Ukraine, half of a new €500M package
The package puts €250 million into drones bought from Dutch industry and another €250 million into US-made air defense for Ukraine.
Ukraine · Europe · drones
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Europe lines up to build Ukraine's missiles, starting with the Flamingo
Combat-proven Ukrainian strike weapons are becoming NATO's shortcut around a deep-strike gap that Europe's own programs will not close until the 2030s.
Ukraine · Europe · Policy
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Castelion lands its first Navy production order for the Blackbeard hypersonic
A startup founded in 2022 just moved a low-cost hypersonic out of flight testing and toward fielding, the attritable-mass model the Pentagon now wants for deterrence.
USA · Naval · Castelion
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Anduril and General Atomics win the Air Force's first robot-fighter production deals
The Air Force put its Collaborative Combat Aircraft into production four months early, handing a defense-tech challenger a marquee program that Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman bid for and lost.
USA · Autonomy · Anduril
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Russia Is Now Short on Air-Defense Missiles Too. The Race Is to Replace Them Cheaply.
Ukrainian intelligence says Moscow is burning through its S-300 interceptors faster than it can replace them, and the same arithmetic now drives Ukraine and its partners toward a cheaper interceptor.
Ukraine · Russia · Europe
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Poland could build Shield AI's X-BAT, the AI-piloted jet Europe doesn't have
At Eurosatory, the US firm Shield AI is courting Warsaw to produce its autonomous VTOL fighter, the kind of program a fragmented Europe has yet to fly after FCAS collapsed.
Europe · USA · Autonomy
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A US startup is selling 500,000 hours of Ukraine's combat footage to train military AI
A Virginia startup has packaged 500,000 hours of Ukraine drone-war footage into a labeled AI-training set and opened it to approved buyers in the US, Ukraine and NATO.
Ukraine · USA · Autonomy
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Storm Shadow maker MBDA signs on to develop Ukraine's Neptune-2 cruise missile
Europe's largest missile house is co-developing a sovereign Ukrainian deep-strike weapon, not donating range-capped Western stock, a shift in how the continent arms Kyiv.
Ukraine · Europe · mbda
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Comand AI raises €32m as Saab buys into French battlefield software
A €32m Series A puts Swedish prime Saab on the cap table of a French command-software startup, the kind of prime-plus-startup pairing Europe keeps reaching for against Palantir.
Europe · Autonomy · Comand AI
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Ukraine shows its first homegrown guided glide bomb, the Vyrivniuvach, in Paris
Ukraine's first domestic guided glide bomb, the Vyrivniuvach, debuted at Eurosatory-2026 in Paris, a homemade answer to the JDAM-ER kits Kyiv has to import.
Ukraine · Air · Vyrivniuvach
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Mach Industries wins DIU contract for a ship-launched long-range strike drone
A three-year-old startup just won the Pentagon's bet to put a 1,400-nautical-mile strike drone on the deck of a destroyer, no flight deck or runway required.
USA · drones · Mach Industries
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Palladyne runs an AI drone swarm inside the Army's command network at Ivy Mass
A single operator flew a mixed swarm of surveillance drones and a strike drone through the Army's prototype command system, in jammed comms with no cloud link, the company said.
USA · Autonomy · Palladyne AI