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Powerus Places $16.9 Million Drone-Parts Order With Investor Unusual Machines, Supplier Says
Unusual Machines says Powerus placed a $16.9 million order for U.S.-made motors, batteries, cameras and video transmitters. The supplier also holds a $30 million stake in the counter-drone maker.
USA · drones · Partner Signal
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Ukraine's Ferrata Sea-Drone Unit Goes Public With Boats It Says Pick Targets Offline
HUR's Black Sea detachment is ending five years of anonymity to offer NATO a sea-drone network that, by its account, keeps choosing targets when the link drops.
Ukraine · Autonomy · Ferrata
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Navy Awards Applied Intuition $25 Million to Put AI Sensor Fusion on Five Destroyers
The production award pairs a fused bridge picture for watchstanders on five Arleigh Burke destroyers with the plumbing to collect shipboard data, retrain AI models ashore and update ships at sea.
USA · Autonomy · Applied Intuition
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BattlePolicy Events Guide Grows to 96 Defense-Tech Fairs in 49 Countries
BattlePolicy's events guide grew from 54 events in 24 countries to 96 in 49, adding three regions and rating each show's fit for a young company.
defense-tech events · trade shows · Eurosatory
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Warhound Raises $200 Million to Clone Military Dogs and Equip Them With Anduril Gear
A Sequoia-led seed round values a company with no dogs yet at $1.2 billion, betting that cloned, gene-edited working dogs wired into Anduril's kit can replace the Pentagon's European supply.
USA · Funding · Warhound
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Jet Drones Top Half of Russia's Night Attack Again as a DTEK Plant Halts Generation
By the Air Force's count Ukraine stopped a smaller share of the jets than of the other drones, and the Energy Ministry says the strikes left more than 500,000 people without electricity.
Ukraine · Russia · air defense
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Singularity Says Navy Lab Pact Took Its Interceptor Motor to Static Fire in Three Months
Interceptor startup Singularity says a solid rocket motor co-developed with the Navy's China Lake weapons center completed a static fire about three months after the two signed a research agreement. No contract has been announced.
USA · air defense · Partner Signal
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Palantir Tells NATO There Is No Kill Switch in Maven After Ukraine's Starshield Cut
After Ukraine lost Starshield service without warning, Palantir says neither it nor Washington can switch off the Maven AI system running at NATO's top military headquarters.
Europe · USA · Autonomy
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Army Raises Striveworks AI Targeting Contract Tenfold to $700 Million
The Army's enterprise deal for Striveworks' Chariot AI, which sorts sensor and drone data into potential targets, now runs to $700 million over five years as NGC2 moves to I Corps.
USA · Autonomy · Striveworks
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Air Force Flies Cargo Pods in SpaceX's Starfall Capsule as Rocket Cargo Shrinks to Reentry Pods
AFRL's Oct. 20 test put military supplies inside a one-ton-class commercial reentry capsule, the vehicle class the Air and Space Forces now favor over the 30-ton rocket deliveries Rocket Cargo began with.
USA · Space · AFRL
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Russia Strikes Kyiv Hours After Agreeing to Talks as Moscow Reports 630 Drones
The overnight exchange hit air defense on both sides: Ukraine stopped most Russian drones but reported downing no ballistic missiles, and a reported strike near Moscow landed on a plant that has repaired Buk and S-300V systems.
Ukraine · Russia · air defense
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Pentagon's Responsible AI Division Filled Three of 10 Posts as AI Moves Into Targeting, GAO Finds
The office meant to keep Pentagon AI trustworthy is 70 percent unstaffed and its coordinating council has no charter, while the department pushes AI into target recognition and agentic systems on a wartime footing.
USA · Autonomy · CDAO
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Helsing Joins Destinus Funding Round at a Reported €6 Billion Valuation
Europe's most valuable defense startup is buying into the Dutch maker of the Ruta cruise missile, and Bloomberg puts its minority stake at a roughly €6 billion valuation.
Europe · Funding · Helsing
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Musk Ordered the Starshield Slowdown That Disrupted Ukrainian Drones, WSJ Reports
The report puts SpaceX's owner behind a speed cap on the satellite link that carries Ukraine's mid-range strike drones and Shahed interceptors.
Ukraine · USA · Space
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EU Backs RSI Europe and Odin Defence With €29.5 Million to Build Drone Warheads Across the Baltic
Lithuania's RSI Europe and Estonia's Odin Defence won €29.5 million from the EU to make loitering-munition warheads. RSI's new plant is due to break ground in early 2027.
Europe · drones · Partner Signal
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Australia Arms Anduril's Ghost Shark With 12 Sea Mines and Altius Drone Swarms
Canberra declassified payloads that take its autonomous submarine from surveillance into mining and strike, and is offering them to the US and UK under AUKUS.
Asia-Pacific · USA · Naval
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Epirus Gets an Army Research Deal to Put Leonidas Microwave Weapons on Vehicles
Epirus announced an Oct. 13 research agreement with the Army's Ground Vehicle Systems Center to put Leonidas on vehicles. The Army told Congress it plans no more fixed-site buys.
USA · air defense · Partner Signal
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Army Cyber Command Picks a Bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, AI Agents Built to Attack Networks
The Army's cyber command wants offensive AI agents that 'must operate with minimal human oversight,' while its commander says the agents it runs today stay under human supervision.
USA · Autonomy · ECHOTRIBBLE
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F-22 Pilot Commands Anduril's Fury Drone in Flight for the First Time
The Fury's onboard autonomy carried out a Raptor pilot's orders, the first in-flight test of the command link the Air Force's drone-wingman plan depends on.
USA · Autonomy · Anduril
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Pentagon Technology Chief Says Export Controls Can Keep AI Labs in Line
Emil Michael, who handles the White House AI task force's dealings with the labs, said export controls are an appropriate stick for AI companies that do not cooperate with the government.
USA · Policy · Anthropic
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Pentagon Signs Framework for Up to 25,000 BAE APKWS Counter-Drone Rocket Kits a Year
The Pentagon has given BAE a seven-year demand signal for its cheap laser-guided drone interceptor, but the buy still awaits congressional authorization and appropriations.
USA · air defense · apkws
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Hegseth Has Not Signed Off on Allied-Paid Patriots for Ukraine, Officials Say
Ukraine's main defense against Russian ballistic missiles now waits on a Pentagon signature, with interceptors its allies already paid for held up in Washington.
Ukraine · USA · air defense
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HD Hyundai and Anduril Run a 368-Ton Ex-Navy Test Ship Uncrewed off Long Beach
The shipbuilder-plus-software team put its uncrewed vessel autonomy in front of US Navy observers as Anduril chases the Navy's medium USV program with commercial yards.
USA · Naval · Anduril
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Russia Fires 16 Ballistic Missiles at Ukraine's Grid as Kyiv Again Gets No Warning
Ukraine's Air Force tally lists no ballistic interceptions, and Zelensky says partners again gave no warning, a day after he said U.S. intelligence sharing had resumed.
Ukraine · Russia · air defense