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  1. EA-37B Compass CallPro The EA-37B Compass Call is a US Air Force airborne electronic-attack aircraft that transfers the Compass Call mission from the EC-130H to a modified Gulfstream G550. USA · Air · electronic-warfare
  2. Ukraine air-defense sale leaves missile designs undisclosed The $2.68 billion proposal lists S-300 Clone and GAM-67 missiles, but the State Department gives no quantities or delivery schedule. USA · Europe · air defense
  3. Tekever Raises $580 Million as Its AR5 Heads Into British Army Service The Portuguese-founded drone maker is now valued at $6.4 billion, roughly five times its 2025 mark, and plans to spend part of the round buying rivals. Europe · Funding · tekever
  4. Russia Sends 82 Jet Drones at Ukraine as Zelensky Leaves Trump Without a Patriot Answer Russia hit Kyiv with jet-powered drones hours after Zelensky met Trump, as the Patriot interceptors he asked for remain unpromised and he warns a larger strike is coming. Ukraine · Russia · air defense
  5. Saildrone SurveyorPro Surveyor is Saildrone's 20-meter uncrewed vessel for ocean mapping and surveillance; a 2026 exercise tested a JAGM launcher on one hull. USA · drones · USV
  6. Swarmer PlatformPro Swarmer Platform is Ukrainian-developed software for coordinating groups of drones through onboard autonomy and a ground control interface. Ukraine · USA · Europe
  7. Ratel H and MPro Ratel H and M are reusable Ukrainian ground robots for ammunition delivery, cargo transport and casualty evacuation. Ukraine · drones · UGV
  8. ALTIUS-600M and 700MPro ALTIUS-600M and 700M are Anduril one-way attack drones, with 600M delivered to Taiwan and both models contracted for Ukraine. USA · Ukraine · Asia-Pacific
  9. Ukraine’s Jet-Drone Defense Faces a 3,000-a-Month Production RacePro The first Geran-5 kills show that Ukrainian interceptors can catch Russia's fastest attack drones. The next six months turn on factories, financing and a Patriot stopgap. Ukraine · Russia · air defense
  10. Army Pays Rune $4.1 Million to Spread Its Resupply Software Across the 1st Cavalry Division The Army Applications Laboratory gave Rune Technologies $4.1 million to take TyrOS across the 1st Cavalry Division and let it task drones and ground robots with resupply. The only disclosed live mission so far was one August drone run. USA · Autonomy · Partner Signal
  11. Ukraine's Bomber Drones Flew Kamikaze Robots 10 km Past Russian Lines at Lyman Air delivery let Ukraine's ground robots skip the mined, drone-watched approach, but carrier payload and landing limits keep the tactic specialized. Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy
  12. A British Drone Submarine Fired a US Torpedo. London Paired It With an AI Pact. The AUKUS trial moved undersea autonomy into weapons carriage, but it proved the interfaces rather than an operational strike capability. Europe · USA · Autonomy
  13. Army Buys a Ship-Killing PrSM Before Refilling the First One A new seeker turns existing HIMARS units into land-based anti-ship forces, but the open-quantity $1.2 billion award arrives with baseline PrSM stocks still depleted. USA · Naval · Lockheed Martin
  14. Ukraine's Overnight Tally Downed No Ballistic Missiles. Zelensky Brings Trump a Patriot Ask. Russia and Ukraine struck energy and industrial targets hours before Zelensky meets Trump, putting air defense and Kyiv's refinery campaign at the center of the talks. Ukraine · Russia · air defense
  15. The Repair Clock Behind Ukraine’s 45% Refinery ClaimPro Kyiv's strike ledger overstates the Russian refining capacity offline at one time. The harder metric is whether repeat strikes keep plants broken faster than Moscow can repair them, and that is the leverage Trump wants frozen. Ukraine · Russia · USA
  16. A Chatbot-Built Intelligence Report Nearly Sent US Troops Onto a Chinese Ship An AI-assisted report falsely tied a Chinese ship's cargo to a nuclear program during the Iran war. Senators now want inspectors general to examine how the Pentagon checks machine-made intelligence. USA · China · Autonomy
  17. SichenPro Sichen is a Ukrainian long-range one-way attack drone with a stated 1,400 km range, 40 kg warhead and provisions for operation under active electronic warfare. Ukraine · missiles · one-way-attack-drone
  18. RZ-100 (Morok)Pro The RZ-100, widely identified as Morok, is a Ukrainian piston-engined one-way attack drone credited with carrying a 30 kg warhead to targets up to 800 km away. Ukraine · missiles · one-way-attack-drone
  19. Nebo-UPro The 55Zh6U Nebo-U is a Russian long-range VHF surveillance radar designed to detect and track aircraft, missiles and low-observable targets, then pass early-warning tracks to integrated air-defense systems. Russia · air defense · early-warning
  20. MICH 2000Pro A Ukrainian long-range one-way attack drone derived from the Chinese ZTK-150 civil airframe, operated exclusively by the SBU's Alpha unit and credited with strikes deep inside Russia. Ukraine · missiles · one-way-attack-drone
  21. Germany Plans €108 Billion for Defense. A VC Report Maps Why Startups See Little of It Keen Venture Partners says personal liability inside BAAINBw, an unpublished requirements matrix and a 1,000-unit delivery bar still steer German defense contracts toward established suppliers. Europe · Policy · Keen Venture Partners
  22. Zelensky Named a 'Pelican' in the Record Moscow Strike. Whether It Is Fire Point's Ballistic Missile Is Disputed. Zelensky listed a weapon called Pelican in the largest strike on Moscow Oblast. It may be Fire Point's FP-7 ballistic missile or a fixed-wing drone, and the FP-7's published range rules out a direct hit on Moscow. Ukraine · Russia · drones
  23. Hanwha, Magnet Defense Set October Build Start for a Drone Ship the Navy Has Not Ordered Hanwha Defense USA and Magnet Defense start building the 38-meter H38 unmanned vessel in October and test it in January. The Navy's first MUSV trial round is running without them. USA · Naval · Partner Signal
  24. Lockheed Puts C$11.7 Million of Offset Money Behind a $5 Million Hologram Table The next funding phase moves Avalon Holographics toward an OLED flat panel, the cost cut that decides whether its mission-planning display ever leaves the operations center. USA · Funding · Avalon Holographics
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