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  1. Powerus Puts Ukraine's Combat-Proven Drone Swarming Into the Pentagon's Drone Race The Pentagon wants FPV mass it has no pilots to fly. A Ukrainian software firm proven over 100,000 combat missions is now inside the $1.1 billion race, through a US partner. USA · Ukraine · Autonomy
  2. Saab signs $2.54 billion contract to send Ukraine 16 Gripen E fighters Sweden's letter of intent becomes a binding order for 16 Gripen E, but the first new jets reach Ukraine only in 2029, with donated older Gripens filling the gap. Ukraine · Europe · Air
  3. Israel runs Iron Beam laser alongside Iron Dome in first joint air-defense drill Israel ran its Iron Beam laser alongside Iron Dome for the first time in a joint drill, letting commanders trade $50,000 interceptors for near-free laser shots against cheap drones. Israel · Air Defense · Rafael
  4. EU sends Ukraine €3.9 billion for drones, its first defense payout under the €90 billion loan The €3.9 billion is the first defense payout of the EU's €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan, and it is walled off to one thing: buying Ukrainian-made drones. Ukraine · Europe · Funding
  5. AWS names Anduril its preferred edge provider, putting cloud compute in a shipping container at the front Amazon Web Services named Anduril its preferred edge provider and packed AWS Outposts into Anduril's Menace-I data center, pushing cloud compute to the contested front. USA · Autonomy · Anduril
  6. Ukraine's F-Drones to build FPV drones in Ohio, the first Kyiv-cleared export to the US military A Ukrainian FPV-drone maker is the first Kyiv has cleared to export uncrewed weapons to the US military, and it is building them in Ohio. Ukraine · USA · drones
  7. Japan eyes Palantir's Maven for SDF command, opening an AI-sovereignty fight Tokyo is weighing a US firm's software for the core of how its commanders read the battlefield, a first for the Self-Defense Forces that also opens a fight over who controls Japan's military data. USA · Autonomy · Palantir
  8. The Pentagon's 'Agent Network' puts AI agents into the targeting cycle The Department of War's second AI "pace-setting" project runs Palantir and Lumbra software agents that hand commanders targeting options in seconds. USA · Autonomy · Palantir
  9. The Air Force is buying AEVEX drones that strike without GPS AEVEX, public since April, won a $50 million Air Force contract for a long-range strike drone built to fly and hit without satellite navigation. USA · Autonomy · AEVEX
  10. Dominion Dynamics raises Canada's largest defense-tech Series A for Arctic ISR A year-old Ottawa startup whose sensor network already rode with the Canadian Rangers raised $139M, the largest Series A in Canadian defense history, as Ottawa rearms the north. Funding · Dominion Dynamics · AuraNet
  11. Poland buys three Saab A26 submarines, putting quiet boats under the Baltic Poland's $4.8 billion order for three Saab A26 submarines is NATO's largest Baltic undersea buy in decades, aimed straight at Russia's Kaliningrad fleet. Europe · Naval · saab
  12. Marine Corps buys Overland AI's autonomous ground vehicles, a US production first The Marine Corps' first production buy of a fully autonomous ground vehicle hands a Seattle startup a $19.7M deal to resupply its frontline counter-drone system. USA · Autonomy · Overland AI
  13. Ukraine's drone startups are becoming missile makers The war is pushing Ukraine's battlefield-proven drone and electronic-warfare firms up the value chain into missiles and air defense, and they are already selling the idea to Europe. Ukraine · BlueBird Tech · Fire Point
  14. Italy's Ariete Replacement Surfaces as a KF-51 Panther, Built by Leonardo and Rheinmetall Leonardo Rheinmetall Military Vehicles showed Italy's New Main Battle Tank at Eurosatory 2026, a KF-51 Panther derivative meant to replace the Ariete. Both firms told Janes it stays in development; no order is signed. Europe · Rheinmetall · Leonardo
  15. Ukraine's Avarid unveils MOBIDIK naval drone in six combat variants Ukrainian startup Avarid revealed MOBIDIK, a modular naval drone in six combat variants from air defense to a 300kg assault warhead, with serial production next. Ukraine · Naval · MOBIDIK
  16. Royal Navy drops Type 83 destroyer for drone-control Common Combat Vessels Britain will scrap the planned Type 83 destroyer and buy at least six Common Combat Vessels to control air, surface and underwater drones, the MoD said, reshaping the Royal Navy's surface fleet around uncrewed systems. Europe · Naval · Royal Navy
  17. Ukraine's new Defense AI Center is putting AI inside the kill chain, steering drones onto target in the final seconds Ukraine's Defense AI Center A1 is embedding AI across the kill chain, including last-second drone guidance that survives Russian jamming, while a separate reform hands AI the call on which drones to buy. Ukraine · Autonomy · Defense AI Center A1
  18. Ukraine's Flamingo missiles hit the Volgograd plant that builds Russia's missile launchers Kyiv's homegrown FP-5 Flamingo reached 400 kilometers to strike Titan-Barrikady, the factory that builds the launchers for Russia's Iskander, Yars and Topol-M missiles. Ukraine · Russia · drones
  19. ICEYE aims for two radar satellites a week as Europe buys SAR and Russia shadows its orbit The Finnish startup is doubling output to feed European military demand for all-weather radar imagery, the same data Ukraine uses for strike planning and that Russia is now chasing in orbit. Europe · Space · ICEYE
  20. Europe puts €343 million into Ukraine's drone and counter-drone factories The EU is now financing the production lines behind Ukraine's combat-tested unmanned systems, and folding those firms into its own defense base. Ukraine · Europe · Funding
  21. The Pentagon Just Wrote AI Into the Targeting Doctrine. The Drone Budget Was Already There. The Pentagon quietly rewrote how it picks targets to let AI initiate actions under human watch, codifying a kill-chain shift already worth billions in drone and software contracts. USA · Policy · Pentagon
  22. Ukraine's DART rides the wind into Russia, built to fly through jamming A Ukrainian startup's balloon-launched missile turns off its own navigation to beat Russian jammers, and the balloons themselves drain million-dollar interceptors. Ukraine · Electronic Warfare · Center of Innovative Technologies Program
  23. Ukraine destroys Russian sea drones running on smuggled Starlink off Odesa Russia is copying the naval-drone war Ukraine invented, and the smuggled Starlink terminals on its destroyed attack boats show it still has no control link of its own. Ukraine · Russia · Naval
  24. ARX and Roboneers form a venture to mass-produce ground robots across Germany and Ukraine A joint venture, ARX Industries, will build Roboneers' battle-tested Rys Pro ground robot across plants in Germany and Ukraine, feeding Kyiv's push for 50,000 unmanned ground systems this year. Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
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