Business
* Orqa, a leading European developer of FPV (first-person view) and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has significantly expanded manufacturing at its headquarters in Osijek, Croatia. The facility can now produce up to 280,000 NDAA-compliant drones per year using Orqa's proprietary components, eliminating dependence on Chinese supply chains. The
Business
* Heven AeroTech, a pioneer in hydrogen-powered Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), has announced a $100 million raise through a Series B round that values the company at $1 billion. The round is being led by strategic investor IonQ, a quantum computing company, alongside returning investors that include Texas Venture Partners. Virginia-based
Data Links & Communications
Russia is installing radio modems on Shahed and Gerbera loitering munitions, forming a network that complicates Ukrainian countermeasures. The devices run on different frequencies. Source: Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, a military radio technology expert Quote: "Bad news. The enemy hasn't limited itself to a single Chinese-made
AI
Sensor solution provider HENSOLDT presents TAERVUS, a fully integrated system for Electromagnetic Warfare (EW). Among other things, it combines state-of-the-art radio direction finders, receivers and jammers/exciters with powerful signal processing software and HENSOLDT's own Spectrum Battle Management Suite (SBMS). These systems, trusted and field-proven over many years,
Weapons Systems
Turkey’s Bayraktar Kizilelma unmanned fighter scored the first recorded beyond visual range air-to-air kill by a jet-powered UAV during a Black Sea test on 30 November 2025. In the test conducted with the participation of two F-16 fighter jets of the Turkish Air Force, KIZILELMA locked onto the target
China may have just found a way to take aim at Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite constellation: a massive swarm of special signal-jamming drones. Researchers at Zhejiang University and the Beijing Institute of Technology modelled how roughly 1,000 to 2,000 coordinated jammers could overwhelm the satellite network. Each
C-UAS
Serhii Sternenko, the leader of a volunteer organisation specialising in donating drones to Ukrainian units, said on Sunday that the Sting — a locally built interceptor drone — successfully destroyed several jet-powered attack drones. "A bit of a historic achievement," wrote Sternenko in his Telegram channel. He published a photo
C-UAS
Project Flytrap 4.5 brings soldiers, industry and technology together in Germany to push the limits of counter-drone solutions to defend NATO’s eastern flank. Over the past months, it has become clear how the threat posed by drones is evolving and increasingly impacting our everyday life. We have seen
Business
Quantum Systems has tripled its valuation and raised €180 million in a Series C Extension led by Balderton Capital. This follows its €160 million Series C in May this year, bringing the total amount secured in 2025 to €340 million, which marks the largest private capital raise in Europe’s
Business
A U.S. military plane soared over Florida's Eglin Air Force Base earlier this month and released a drone made by the defence tech giant Anduril Industries to test whether it could take flight and conduct surveillance. The drone – a winged model known as Altius – nosedived 8,000
C-UAS
Iran has put into service new booby-traps capable of destroying helicopters and drones. The Jaljaleh anti-drone mine is capable of shooting down airborne targets at an altitude of up to 350 meters. When detonated, an explosive radius of approximately 5 meters is formed, and fragments fly up to 15 meters.
EW
* Thales is giving forces a new edge in electromagnetic warfare (EW) with two new systems built to accelerate radar detection and AI analysis, helping operators act faster across air, land, and sea. The innovations aim to simplify complex intelligence workflows while enabling more precise responses to threats in multi-domain operations.