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Defense & Combat
What Military Drones Actually Cost, Platform by Platform
A verified cost ladder across drone classes, from $500 FPV strike drones to a $618 million MQ-4C Triton, showing why unit cost, all-up-round cost, and program cost are not the same number.
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Defense & Combat
The Undersea Drone Explained: UUV Categories, Programs, and the Race Below
Uncrewed undersea vehicles now patrol the same cables that carry 97% of global communications. From man-portable REMUS scouts to 85-ton Orca XLUUVs, this is how the U.S. Navy classifies, builds, and struggles to field them — and why China is moving faster.
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Defense & Combat
Switchblade 300, 400, and 600: AeroVironment's Loitering Munition Family, Explained
From a 1.77-kilogram backpackable drone that proved itself in Ukrainian urban combat to a 65-pound tank-killer now in battalion-level service, AeroVironment's Switchblade family is the U.S. Army's answer to the loitering munition era — built around a single patented capability: the ability to abort at the last second.
