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  1. Taiwan breaks ground on NT$6.9 billion drone park designed to shut out Chinese parts The Minxiong complex pairs military drone development with a supply chain free of Chinese components that Taiwan wants to sell to democratic buyers. China · drones · NCSIST
  2. A $10,000 Gerbera Exposes the Mediterranean Drone-Defense GapPro France and Italy deny receiving the warning. Russia has already demonstrated the aircraft, ship launch and disruption model that make the scenario credible. Europe · Russia · drones
  3. Up to 12 British Firms to Train Drone-Swarm AI on Ukraine's Combat Data The first competition under the UK-Ukraine AI Partnership gives British developers a scarce training asset while the underlying data stays inside Ukraine's secure perimeter. Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
  4. Air Force Takes Delivery of Its First Two Robot Wingmen at Creech Fury and Vengeance have moved from company demonstrations to Air Force operator-led testing, while both manufacturers build production jets ahead of new federal funding. USA · Autonomy · Anduril
  5. Ondas Pays $56 Million for Three Israeli Firms to Close Gaps in Its Autonomy Stack The acquisitions add acoustic drone detection, resilient teleoperation and GPS-independent navigation for unmanned systems operating under jamming. USA · Autonomy · Ondas
  6. Russia Hits Kyiv's Data Centers as Poland Calls a Starlink Gateway Fire Sabotage Russian drones knocked out Kyiv data centers serving 100,000 households, and the same night a fire disabled a Starlink ground station in Poland that Warsaw says was set to cut the Ukrainian army's internet. Ukraine · Europe · Space
  7. Ukraine's Deep Strikes Meet Russia's 3,000-a-Month Jet-Drone SurgePro Fire Point can now damage Moscow's oil economy, but Russia brings more weapons, industrial capacity and societal slack to a winter campaign that is already spilling into NATO airspace. Ukraine · Russia · Europe
  8. Army Throws 100-Drone Swarms and an Autonomous Mothership at Its Own Air Defenses At Scarlet Dragon 26-3 the XVIII Airborne Corps found no single sensor can stop a 100-drone swarm, while the Pentagon is already ordering attack swarms by the thousand. USA · Autonomy · XVIII Airborne Corps
  9. OpenAI Hands Ukraine Its Daybreak Vulnerability Hunter for Grid and Hospital Defense OpenAI is giving Ukraine free access to Daybreak and GPT-5.6 Sol to defend the hospitals, power systems and telecom networks Russia attacks with both missiles and code. Ukraine · Autonomy · OpenAI
  10. Sensofusion Plans €300 Million Helsinki IPO on Counter-Drone Demand The Finnish counter-drone maker is asking investors to price its market as durable European defense spending, not a war trade, at up to €1.3 billion. Europe · air defense · Sensofusion
  11. Kyiv Downs 60% of Russia's Ballistic Missiles. Some Nights This Year It Was Zero. Russia fired Zircons, ballistic missiles and 282 drones at Ukraine overnight. Kyiv stopped 60% of the ballistic missiles, and Zelensky says some nights this year the rate was zero. Ukraine · Russia · air defense
  12. Rudram-IPro India's Rudram-I is a Su-30MKI-launched anti-radiation missile tested against emitting targets; operational fielding remains unverified. India · missiles · anti-radiation-missile
  13. RBS15 Mk4 GungnirPro Saab and Diehl's next RBS15 missile is designed for air, ship and coastal launch, but Mk4 service must be separated from the older fielded variants. Europe · missiles · anti-ship-missile
  14. SPEAR / SPEAR3Pro MBDA's compact UK air-launched cruise missile is in early manufacture but has not yet entered British operational service. Europe · missiles · precision-strike
  15. Rtut-BM / 1L262EPro Russia's tracked electronic-warfare station designed to trigger radio-proximity-fuzed shells before they reach protected troops. Russia · Space · electronic-warfare
  16. Cheongung-II / M-SAM Block IIPro South Korea's fielded medium-layer missile-defence system, exported to the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iraq and used by the UAE against Iranian attacks. Asia-Pacific · air defense · ballistic-missile-defense
  17. Ukraine’s Drone Deal Sells the Counter-Shahed Stack, Not Just the DronePro Finland has signed and a US framework is ready. The Iran war showed why Ukrainian interceptors have to travel with Ukrainian components, software and operators. Ukraine · USA · Europe
  18. Army Buys Vulcan's Magnets for the Drone Motors It Now Builds Itself The Army picked Vulcan Elements to supply rare-earth magnets for the brushless drone motors it builds at Tobyhanna Army Depot. The award notice shows $1.2 million; no order quantity or delivery date is public. USA · drones · Partner Signal
  19. Navy Wires Its Strike Planners to an Autonomous MQ-20 Before Picking a Carrier Drone A Gray Flag 2026 test sent a human-built mission plan to an autonomous MQ-20 Avenger, giving the Navy a platform-agnostic planning layer for combat drones it has not yet bought. USA · Autonomy · MQ-20 Avenger
  20. NORTHCOM Makes Anduril's Lattice the Yardstick for Every Counter-Drone Vendor at Falcon Peak At least 20 counter-drone vendors at NORTHCOM's border-focused Falcon Peak 26.2 had to feed their tracks into Anduril's Lattice, including interceptors Ukraine already flies against Russian drones. USA · Autonomy · Anduril
  21. Type-25 HVGPPro Japan's Type-25 HVGP is a domestically developed, ground-launched stand-off glide weapon intended to engage invading forces at distance during the defence of remote islands. Asia-Pacific · missiles · hypersonic-glide-weapon
  22. L-SAMPro South Korea's domestically developed upper-layer air and ballistic-missile defence system, designed to operate above Cheongung-II and Patriot in the country's layered shield. Asia-Pacific · air defense · ballistic-missile-defense
  23. Zorawar light tankPro India's Zorawar is a roughly 25-tonne light tank under development for high-altitude and mountain operations, with induction provisionally expected in 2028-29 after further refinement and trials. India · Land · light-tank
  24. D-21-12R armed ground robotPro The D-21-12R is a Ukrainian remotely operated armed ground robot combining FRDM Group's D-21 wheeled platform with a D-12 weapon module carrying a 12.7 mm machine gun. Ukraine · drones · unmanned-ground-vehicle
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