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Niklas Köhler, co-founder and co-CEO of German technology company Helsing, presented the current development status of the HX-2 to selected media representatives and provided insights into the further development of the strike drone. According to Köhler, the company has "destroyed" an average of 30 drones
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For less than $800, soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are building drones that are designed to be disposable, the deputy commanding general of the division said. The Attritable Battlefield Enabler, or ABE 1.01, named after the division’s bald eagle mascot, is yet another advancement soldiers are making
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* Cummings Aerospace is using 3D printing technology in the continued development of the Hellhound S3 drone. With the use of 3D printing and modular open systems, Cummings can rapidly iterate the design of the product, harnessing test data and soldier feedback to inform each update. Cummings Aerospace recently completed a
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* AeroVironment, Inc., a leading global provider of loitering munition systems, announced the expansion of its combat-proven Switchblade family of precision loitering munitions with three new systems: the Switchblade 600 Block 2, the Switchblade 400, and the Switchblade 300 Block 20 equipped with a modular explosively formed penetrator (EFP) payload.
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* Northrop Grumman has been doing detailed design work that lays a path to air-launching its Lumberjack loitering one-way attack drone from Kratos’ stealthy XQ-58 Valkyrie uncrewed aircraft. Multiple manned and unmanned aircraft are being eyed as potential platforms for employing Lumberjack, which is already being tested in
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* Mistral Inc., a provider of advanced defense solutions, together with Uvision Inc. (formerly known as UVision USA), announced that the U.S. Army awarded a multi-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $982,000,000 for the Lethal Unmanned System (LUS) program to procure, field, train, and
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Raytheon, an RTX business, has been awarded a $5.04 billion cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the U.S. Army to supply components for the Coyote Missile System. Coyote Missile System Contract Scope The Department of War said Monday, under the agreement, Raytheon will deliver both fixed and mobile
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Lithuanian drone innovator Granta Autonomy has unveiled its new X-WING loitering munition system. The X-WING combines the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) of a quadcopter with the efficient, fixed-wing flight of an airplane, giving it a range of up to 50km. This design provides front-line
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* General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and AeroVironment collaborated on the air launch of a Switchblade 600 loitering munition (LM) from a GA-ASI Block 5 MQ-9A unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The flight testing took place from July 22-24 at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds Test Range.
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* Kratos has confirmed it is working together with Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) on a derivative of its jet-powered MQM-178 Firejet target drone called the Chien Feng IV. The Chien Feng IV is said to be eyed primarily as a lower-cost,
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The Düsseldorf-based defense company Rheinmetall is currently working on a drone equipped with an air-to-air missile for self-defense and three loitering munitions. The company exhibited a model of the system at the Drone Days 2025 exhibition, held by b.r.m. IT & Aerospace GmbH from
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Alabama-based drone manufacturer Griffon Aerospace has unveiled its latest unmanned aircraft system, the MQM-172 Arrowhead, a drone designed to operate as both a high-performance target platform and a configurable strike asset. Daniel Beck, Airworthiness Manager and Program Manager at Griffon Aerospace, said in a social media statement