News Daily Brief
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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