USA · Air · stealth · radar · CCA · loyal-wingman · Boeing · Autonomy
Boeing says anechoic-chamber testing confirms a low radar cross-section for its uncrewed MQ-28 Ghost Bat, a survivability claim that feeds straight into the contested race to field cheap loyal-wingman jets.
USA · Autonomy · GDIT · AWS · DOGMA · Project Celerity · predictive logistics
GDIT and AWS are testing battlefield logistics AI on a Baja 1000 race bike, treating the thousand-mile desert course as a proxy for the comms-denied terrain the software is meant to run on.
Ukraine · Air Defense · patriot · PURL · Russia · diplomacy
Ukraine's foreign minister told partners to "act, not only condemn" after a 729-weapon overnight strike, naming a specific funding route to buy more Patriots.
Ukraine · Air Defense · missiles · drones · Russia · patriot
Russia's June 2 barrage on Kyiv and Dnipro confirmed an air war split into two tiers with opposite economics, and Russia is firing into the one Ukraine cannot defend.
Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy · Battlefield · DeepState
Russia captured just 14 km² of Ukraine in May, its lowest monthly total since 2023, and DeepState says the net change went negative as Ukraine clawed back more than Russia took.
Europe · Russia · Naval · sanctions · shadow-fleet
French commandos rappelled onto the sanctioned tanker Tagor in the Atlantic, the fourth such boarding since September, as Western navies move shadow-fleet enforcement from paperwork to physical interdiction.
Israel · Autonomy · loitering-munitions · drone-swarm · battle-management · Uvision · CORTEX · Hero
Uvision's new CORTEX software puts one operator in charge of many loitering munitions at once, a bid to own the command layer over the swarm rather than just the munition.
Israel · USA · drones · Funding · counter-drone · C-UAS · D-Fend · Motorola · EnforceAir · acquisition
Motorola is paying $1.5 billion for a counter-drone firm whose RF takeover seizes a drone's control link, the same link Ukraine's fiber-optic drones are built to fly without.
Ukraine · Europe · Air Defense
Germany has sent Ukraine another IRIS-T, a useful addition if missile stocks keep pace with Russia's drone and cruise-missile volume.
Europe · Funding · poland · SAFE · procurement · artillery · drones · pgz
Warsaw signed the deals between May 28 and 30 to beat an EU deadline, with about 89% of the money going to domestic firms led by state group PGZ.
drones · China · stealth · radar · electronic warfare
Shenzhen-based Star-Navi sells the sprayable XRAM-C coatings in 1, 5 and 10 kilogram containers, Defence Blog reported, putting a modest radar-evasion
Europe · Air Defense
Multi-year delays to its US Patriot order have pushed Switzerland to gather information on European, Israeli and South Korean systems, with a Federal Council decision expected this summer, hartpunkt reported.
Air · AVILUS · Bundeswehr · Europe · Wespe · drones · logistics drone · medevac
AVILUS's new coaxial-rotor drone is built to carry up to 200 kg of cargo or casualties as far as 300 km with no crew aboard.
Europe · Autonomy · robotics · Helsing · ground-robots · UGV · defense-industry
Helsing showed the RX-1 quadruped and its Area 9 research unit in Paris on June 1 and said it will give the robot to universities rather than sell it, as Ukraine fields tens of thousands of ground robots and China's Unitree dominates the quadruped market.
drones · Ukraine · Russia · Funding · deep-strike · logistics · defense-industry
Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has put about $113 million behind a campaign of mid-range drone strikes on Russian supply lines. ISW links the pressure to Russia's first monthly territorial loss since 2024.