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Marcus Schuler edits BattlePolicy, a daily defense-technology brief connecting the companies and capabilities behind modern war to the contest among Europe, the US, Russia, and China.
Alta Ares, a Franco-Ukrainian maker of AI drone interceptors used in Ukraine, raised €50 million to scale production as demand for cheap air defense climbs.
Palladyne AI signed an MoU for up-to-10-year exclusive US rights to make and market IAI's combat-proven Harpy, Harop and Mini-Harpy loitering munitions, onshoring them as the Pentagon scales munition buys.
ICEYE closed a Series F worth over €1bn at a €10bn-plus valuation, a record European spacetech round, to scale the radar constellation Ukraine already uses to find Russian targets.
Ukraine's MoD codified the MAC OWL 'Sova' MRAP, designed to mount up to 10 electronic-warfare modules into a jamming dome against the FPV drones now hunting vehicles across the front.
Swarmer's Nasdaq debut, a wave of Western venture money and a Pentagon FPV contract show Ukrainian defense tech crossing from battlefield to balance sheet, at a valuation that has outrun the revenue.
Ukraine's defense ministry says a Brave1-backed interceptor automates 95% of a Shahed intercept, leaving the operator to pick the target and clear the shot.
The US-Israeli startup raised a $10.2 million seed led by Ace Capital Partners to scale ground robots that enter tunnels and rubble before troops.
Airbus is turning its best-selling H145 light twin into a pilotless cargo helicopter for frontline resupply, with a maiden flight due late 2026 and service entry not before the early 2030s.
Ukrainian long-range drones knocked off course by Russian jamming keep crossing into NATO airspace, and the Baltics want more than fighter patrols to stop them.
Ukraine says it has strung 822 km of anti-drone netting over frontline roads this year, doubling its pace to keep supply and evacuation traffic alive under the FPV threat.
Beijing fielded the HQ-16F, a Patriot-class mobile air-defense missile, opposite Taiwan in the same weeks the US burned through the interceptors it would need to defend the island. The contest is magazine depth, not exquisite platforms.
Iran's first ballistic strike since April aimed at two of Israel's main air bases; the IDF claims a clean intercept, and the exchange now sits on top of the US-Iran talks.
A new national security memo tells the Pentagon to onboard frontier commercial AI at speed, strips vendors of the power to shut it down mid-mission, and resets the rules for autonomous weapons within 90 days.
A Russian drone hit the receiving building of the Holtec-built dry-cask site that freed Ukraine from shipping its nuclear waste to Russia, metres from where spent fuel sits.
The State Department's $1.98 billion approval puts Anduril's electronic and kinetic drone defenses in the Gulf days after an Iranian drone hit Kuwait's main airport.
Shield AI says one AI flew a V-BAT and Destinus Hornet drones as a single team in Oklahoma, a milestone arriving days after a Reuters investigation into V-BAT crashes and a whistleblower's claims about its autonomy.
Kyiv took back more ground than it lost for a second straight month, and independent trackers credit its drone strikes for choking Russian logistics.
To reach the Pentagon's $1.1 billion Drone Dominance program, Ukraine's combat-shaped drone firms must stand up US legal entities, hand signing authority to US citizens, build on American soil, and open their technical files. The capability crosses the Atlantic; the ownership and the IP stay behind.
At Operation Jailbreak, six firms wired a radar 'Hunter' and a gun-armed 'Killer' into one autonomous counter-drone kill chain in under a week, the Army's argument that it can integrate at software speed.
A second deep-strike raid in three days hit Russia's Baltic Fleet hub and a cluster of northwest fuel sites about 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine, forcing St. Petersburg's first stay-indoors order since 2022.
The Dancer 4.5.0 matches the speed of Russia's newest Shahed variants and keeps re-engaging after a miss, the gap that has limited cheap drone-on-drone defense.
Taiwan plans to mass-produce up to 1,376 Hai Chien II naval air-defense missiles, stockpiling indigenous weapons to survive a Chinese saturation strike.
Ukraine's drone force says cheap one-way drones have hit 174 Russian air-defense systems worth $5.4 billion this year, the suppression work that opens its deep-strike lanes.
A $5,000 drone from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Perennial Autonomy is letting Ukraine burn Russian supply trucks deep behind the front.