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USSOCOM has bought Tekever drones after validation and acceptance testing, but the Portuguese firm won't say how many, which model or what it cost. It is Tekever's fourth government customer announced since August.
An Army official says the Pentagon is trying to 'artificially induce' drone demand. The Drone Dominance leaderboard shows why makers want more: no Gauntlet I order reached half of the year-long volume Performance Drone Works is asking for.
Sweden is paying Saildrone for 1,440 vehicle-days of Baltic Sea surveillance from four Voyager drones. The company owns, crews and tasks the boats, and FMV says it is buying the data, not the vessels.
At AUSA, Maj. Gen. Frederick Crist said US Army Pacific is moving into the autonomous lane, citing an August test in which Sea Machines fitted a 257-foot commercial supply ship for autonomous navigation in nine days. The Army's small watercraft fleet is under strain, and the test is one way to stretch it.
Former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov says a new interceptor built in a month shot down two jet-powered Geran-5s over Kyiv in its first week. His Palantir-backed company plans to build hundreds a month by the end of 2026.
Ukraine's MoD says its Delta battle-management system took in aerial, surface and underwater drones plus radars at NATO's REPMUS 26 using STANAG 4817 telemetry. If that holds up, it shows Delta can work with NATO's new standard for unmanned systems. All performance claims come from Kyiv and have not been independently verified.
Instead of going to the Tucson boneyard, four divested Navy MQ-8C Fire Scouts are now flying Army sensor packages at Dugway and Redstone, a transfer the Navy says saved the Army just over $70 million in procurement costs.
The first federal case from the Barksdale drone saga covers an unregistered DJI Air 3 flown March 22-26, a week after the incursions that locked down the bomber base, and nothing public connects the defendant to the jamming-resistant swarms.
A modified Malloy T-150 cargo drone used a three-pod APKWS launcher to hit several one-way attack drones in a row at Eglin AFB without landing or reloading. BAE has not said how many it hit, how many rockets it fired or what the targets were.
Raytheon's $729M LIDS award covers the US Army, Qatar and Jordan and marks the first export sales of Coyote and KuRFS, but it came without quantities, delivery dates or a per-customer split. A 2022 notification to Congress for a $1.0B Qatari buy is the best public yardstick available.
The Army's G-TEAD office has placed a second order for Mountain Horse Solutions' FD-1 quadcopter interceptor. A company official told Janes the order covers 385 units, after 300 earlier this year. The company has not published the quantity or the contract value.
France has already handed critical-infrastructure operators the power to detect, jam and shoot down drones; Austria, Poland and Germany are moving the same way, but liability, command authority and grid operators' own doubts remain unresolved.
Ukraine's MoD says its forces have struck 408,000 Russian drones since Jan. 1, including about 248,000 fixed-wing types, 125,000 multirotors and 35,000-plus Shaheds. It says each hit is on video in DELTA and verified by Brave1, both Ukraine's own systems.
Helsing entered air defense in Berlin on Oct. 26 with Contra and two interceptors it says cost under EUR 100,000 each. Neither has finished flight testing, deliveries start Q2 2027 at the earliest, and the price and 1,000-a-month output figures are company claims.
Barzan Holdings showed more than a dozen products built in Qatar at Milipol 2026: three FPV quadcopters, two ISR drones, two unmanned surface vessels and a counter-drone joint venture with Ukraine's Carmine Sky, as Doha pushes for its own defense production.
For the first time since 1992, GA-ASI won't build an aircraft entirely by itself: Boeing-owned Spirit Defense will design and build FQ-42 Vengeance fuselages at a new Wichita facility as the Air Force aims for at least 500 CCAs by 2032.
Kyiv drone maker Airlogix is reportedly in talks to raise $100M at a valuation above $2B, while its Auterion joint venture builds Seth X and Anubis strike drones near Munich under a German-funded order for more than 5,000 aircraft.
Germany has told Boeing it won't buy the MQ-28 Ghost Bat directly. Berlin gave no reason, and reporting relayed from Politico says its drone wingman may now slip to the early 2030s, which opens the door for Helsing, Airbus-Kratos and General Atomics.
Antigravity's 8K 360-degree A1 went on sale Oct 20 in a $799 Follow Me Bundle with Watch and Ring remotes and prop guards, sold at Best Buy. At 351 g it has to be FAA-registered and broadcast Remote ID. The new controller and 4G module aren't sold in the US store.
DJI's Matrice 5TD carries a native 1280x1024 thermal core on 8-micron pixels. A US drone CEO's alarm about it was half right: the 5TD is a 2.6 kg dock-only aircraft, not Mavic-sized, and the six-month US imager wait is his own figure.
Wentzville, Mo. advanced Bill 4914 on Oct. 21, making drone-delivery bases a conditional use that needs FAA approval, insurance and noise testing. The city can regulate the nest, not the flights, and the bill sets no payload or drone-count cap.
Teriyaki Madness began Zipline drone delivery Oct. 15 from its Denton, Texas shop and promises DFW and Houston expansion later this year, but neither company has named the hub serving orders, the delivery radius or the price.
Matternet and UK healthcare logistics startup Apian added Great Ormond Street Hospital to their London NHS drone network on Oct 20, as Apian says it has flown over 13,000 clinical items since October 2024.
Drone Nerds' new Evolver DFR puts a Blue UAS Parrot drone, a DBOX dock and SkyfireAI software on one purchase order with no subscription. It has no published price, and its parent XTI is working under note waivers and a going-concern warning.
Wing now flies Walmart orders from seven Charlotte-area Supercenters, with two more due soon. The bigger story is the April 2025 FAA review behind it: up to 25 hubs and 500 flights per hub per day, with local towns controlling only the parking-lot permit.
Beijing's Announcement No. 49 loosens controls on mid-range and farm drones but pushes licensing down to autopilots, radios, ESCs and carbon blades. Its four-part motor test catches few products. Its propeller entry catches most large agricultural rotors.
Michigan has split $1.705M across 12 advanced air mobility projects. The largest award, $245,000, goes to blueflite for an Ann Arbor organ-delivery pilot, but the state set no performance goals for it or for any other project.
SFPD's drone order, DGO 10.12, goes to the Police Commission on Oct. 14. Its key term, 'public safety response', is never defined, and the EFF and the Public Defender say that could let drones fly to every call while Flock, valued at $8.4B, bets heavily on police drones.
Intel has asked the FCC for an expedited waiver so the foreign-made automated guided vehicles that have run its US fabs for 20+ years can still get hardware, software and firmware changes. Robots were added to the Covered List on July 28, through the same origin-based rule used for drones and routers.
The FCC used its new logic-bearing component rules for the first time, blocking an unnamed dash cam and a wireless video transmitter over a HiSilicon chip. The test is who made the part, the same one that can keep DJI or Autel components out of new US-built drones.
US spray-drone sales fell 59% in 2025 as CBP held up DJI shipments, while sprayed acreage rose 58.7%. Now the dealers' coalition is asking the FCC to drop Part 137 crop sprayers from a proposed 'military-grade' import ban.
Guinness has certified two Sky Elements records from four nights in Blue Ridge, Texas: a 10,183-drone dragon and 71,207 drones launched in one week. Both depended on Damoda trays that charge, launch and recover drones without anyone placing them by hand.
Joe Manor's engineless Endgame 130 glider read 474 mph on a radar gun at Parker Mountain, then hit the hillside. The flight was a shakedown of the first airframe from new molds, and it shows how dynamic soaring takes energy from a ridge's wind shear.
L3Harris has a contract worth up to $60M to flight-test a fully integrated ramjet interceptor for the Army's XRC counter-drone effort. Northrop Grumman is building its own XRC ramjet motor, and neither company has said how far, how fast or at what cost.
Auterion's Nemyx VLS puts an electric elevator in each launch tube, claims 30% more drones per volume, and accepts FPVs, interceptors and loitering munitions from Skyfall, Rheinmetall, DeltaQuad, Griffon and others. A human picks the target and Nemyx automates the launch.
BAE Systems unveiled a modular high-power microwave array for defeating drone swarms, paired with its MDACS cannon, but the maturity claims differ by source: TRL 6 in the company's account, ready for operational testing in a theater command per Defense Daily.
Maker Joshua Bird has a 3D-printed drone hovering and steering on one motor, using a 45-degree hinged propeller, a motor that speeds up and slows 300 times a second, and rewritten controller firmware. So far it only flies in his bedroom, the design files are on GitHub, and HKU's 2023 PULSAR did single-motor flight first.
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