Business
* AV, with partner Parry Labs, has been awarded a 3-year Other Transaction Agreement with an initial base contract value of $13.2M with additional options for a total potential contract value of $42M to provide the newly developed P550 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for the U.S. Army’s Long
Testing
Video and stills just released by Chinese state media show China’s CH-7 stealthy flying-wing drone for the first time, being prepared for flight, taking off, and landing. It appears to be tailored for intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance (ISR), as well as possibly a secondary strike role. The video includes
C-UAS
* Northrop Grumman is introducing a new addition to its growing counter-drone portfolio with AiON, a next-gen counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) built to detect and neutralize threats before they escalate. The system combines artificial intelligence, modular architecture, and intuitive controls to assist operators across public safety, security, and defence missions. Its
Business
The Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAIINBw) and Quantum Systems have signed a contract for the procurement of up to 747 reconnaissance drones to renew the Bundeswehr's ALADIN system. Quantum Systems has been awarded the contract for the successor to the ALADIN reconnaissance
News
* NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas. The demonstration, held at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley earlier this year, focused on a system
News
Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) said it carried out the first-ever uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) attack on a Russian vessel. The strike was on a Project 636 Varshavyanka class, or Improved Kilo class diesel-electric submarine, in the Black Sea naval stronghold of Novorossiysk. It would mark a historic first
Swarms
* Auterion announced a significant step towards autonomous mass in modern warfare: the successful live demonstration of a hybrid drone swarm composed of FPV and fixed-wing drones from different manufacturers executing a unified, end-to-end kill chain. The demonstration for government customers in Munich, Germany, marks the first time such a mixed
Tethered
* Neros Technologies, in partnership with Kela Technologies, has announced Archer Fiber, the world’s first NDAA-compliant fibre-optic FPV drone — a breakthrough platform engineered for dominance in the most aggressive electronic warfare environments. Archer Fiber is already BlueUAS cleared, following a rigorous component-level audit verifying that no critical parts originate from
EW
A new, innovative detection system for countering unmanned aerial systems (c-UAS) conducted its first field tests at sea during the Bold Machina (BOMA) exercise in the Netherlands this September. Rapidly developed by a small team led by officer-scholars from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), the c-UAS system deployed aboard a
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Force has taken delivery of the Hadid-110, a new jet-powered stealth-oriented suicide drone designed to penetrate modern air defences and strike high-value targets. The most important distinction between the Hadid-110 and the previous generation of suicide drones is the use of a
News
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. Let me walk you through what Michèle Borcherding, Clara Veihelmann, Luca-Marie Hoffmann, Julius Nieweler, Tobias Wellnitz, Sergen Kaya, and Clemens Justus of Axel Springer Academy for Journalism
AI
As the skies grow more contested and threats from drones and other unmanned aerial systems (UAS) evolve in scale and sophistication, the need for advanced, adaptive defence solutions has never been greater. Microsoft is joining with Lockheed Martin to develop Sanctum -- a new era of counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS)