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Lockheed fires JAGM from GRIZZLY box launcher in counter-drone test
Lockheed says the Yuma shot paired Sanctum software, Fortem R-40 radars and a containerized launcher into one counter-drone kill chain.
USA · air defense · Lockheed Martin
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DroneShield wins a US counter-drone contract as the Pentagon's C-UAS task force scales up
The Pentagon's central counter-drone body is funding repeat buys, and a small specialist is scaling into a procurement line the drone war built.
USA · air defense · DroneShield
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Greece expands its Shield AI V-BAT drone fleet to watch the Aegean
The order expands a drone Greece already uses to watch its Aegean islands, and brings Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy business to Athens.
Europe · Autonomy · Shield AI
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Ukrainian drones hit St. Petersburg oil terminal and a Baltic Fleet corvette as Putin's forum opens
Ukrainian long-range drones set the St. Petersburg oil terminal ablaze and struck the corvette Boikiy at a Baltic Fleet base, hours before Putin's economic forum opened in the city.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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An 18-month-old Berlin startup is now a Bundeswehr strike-drone supplier
STARK Defence, founded 18 months ago, is scaling into a core Bundeswehr loitering-munition supplier, and says a European NATO buyer just quadrupled its Virtus order.
Europe · drones · STARK Defence
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Germany's 18-month drone certification fields obsolete kit, a CDU lawmaker warns
Roderich Kiesewetter says Berlin certifies weapons one at a time while Ukraine runs ten to fifteen design cycles in the same window, leaving the Bundeswehr's drones outdated on arrival.
Europe · Policy · Germany
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Rheinmetall lands €5.7 billion Romania deal as NATO's eastern flank keeps buying
Romania's €5.7 billion order for 298 Lynx vehicles, Skyranger air defense and four ships, financed by the EU's SAFE program, makes it the second-largest SAFE buyer after Poland.
Europe · air defense · Rheinmetall
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Mach Industries raises $300M as drone-makers race to scale factories
Mach Industries raised a $300M Series C at a $1.8B valuation to expand its Forge factory network, the latest sign that defense-tech money is moving from prototypes to mass production.
USA · Funding · Mach Industries
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Boeing says chamber tests validate the MQ-28 Ghost Bat's low radar signature
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 · Air · stealth
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GDIT and AWS Use a Desert E-Bike Race to Pressure-Test Battlefield Logistics AI
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.
USA · Autonomy · GDIT
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Sybiha turns Russia's 729-weapon strike into a financing demand for Patriots
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 · patriot
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Ukraine stopped 642 of 729 Russian weapons on June 2. It could not stop the ballistic missiles.
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 · air defense · missiles
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Russia took 14 km² in Ukraine in May, its worst month since 2023
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.
Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy
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France boards a sanctioned Russian shadow-fleet tanker 400 miles off Brittany
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.
Europe · Russia · Naval
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Uvision's CORTEX puts one operator over many loitering munitions
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 · Autonomy · loitering-munitions
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Motorola buys Israel's D-Fend for $1.5 billion, a bet on drone-hijacking tech
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.
Israel · USA · drones
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Germany Sends New IRIS-T as Ukraine Flags Missile Shortage
Germany has sent Ukraine another IRIS-T, a useful addition if missile stocks keep pace with Russia's drone and cruise-missile volume.
Ukraine · Europe · air defense
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Poland Signs 62 Defense Contracts Worth €28 Billion Under the EU's SAFE Loan Program
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.
Europe · Funding · poland
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Chinese firm Star-Navi sells a spray-on radar coating for drones by the kilogram
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 gain with
drones · China · stealth
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Switzerland Evaluates More Than Four Patriot Alternatives Amid US Delivery Delays
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.
Europe · air defense
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AVILUS completes first flight of its Wespe cargo and medevac helicopter drone
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.
Air · AVILUS · Bundeswehr