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Industry & Contracts
Denmark's Battle-Tested Heidrun Beats US and European Rivals for a Dutch ISR Contract
The Netherlands has picked Danish firm Sky-Watch's combat-proven RQ-35 Heidrun over major US and European competitors to supply company-level ISR drones, with 2026 deliveries and seven years of sustainment.
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Industry & Contracts
Latvia and Ukraine Will Build Strike Drones Within Sight of the Russian Border
Latvia and Ukraine will build a joint drone factory in Latgale, deliberately sited near the Russia and Belarus borders, operationalizing a June 9 'Drone Deal' that trades Ukrainian strike, ground and maritime drones for Latvian anti-drone systems.
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Industry & Contracts
Stark Banks 500M Euros at 3.5B Valuation as Europe Bets Big on Loitering-Munition Mass Production
Berlin's Stark Defence raised ~500M euros (~$570M) at a ~3.5B euro valuation led by Sequoia and Founders Fund, with the NATO Innovation Fund participating, pouring 80%+ into factories to build "thousands of systems per month."
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Industry & Contracts
Baykar: How a Turkish Family Firm Cornered the Global UCAV Export Market
Turkey's Baykar — family-owned, Istanbul-based — built the Bayraktar TB2 from a domestic-independence program into a combat-proven juggernaut with 1.25 million flight hours, agreements with 36 countries, and an estimated 65 percent share of the global UCAV export market.
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Industry & Contracts
DroneShield: The Counter-UAS Company Redefining Drone Defense at Scale
From a 2014 Virginia startup to an ASX200-listed company with 4,000+ systems deployed in 70 nations, DroneShield has built the counter-UAS industry’s most comprehensive product line—and is now betting that software subscriptions, not hardware sales, define its next decade.
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Industry & Contracts
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems: The Company That Built the Armed Drone Era
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is the private, family-controlled company that built the Predator, Reaper, and Gray Eagle — and is now in production on the FQ-42A, one of the first uncrewed aircraft to carry a fighter designation in U.S. military history.
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Industry & Contracts
Airbus and Kratos Unveil U740 Valkyrie at ILA Berlin, Targeting Luftwaffe Service by 2029
Airbus Defence and Space has teamed with Kratos to bring a Europeanized XQ-58A Valkyrie to ILA Berlin as the U740, targeting German Luftwaffe operational use by 2029 — alongside a reveal of the all-European Ravenstorm UCCA concept aimed at the early 2030s.
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Industry & Contracts
Alta Ares Closes €50M, Then Lands Airbus Partnership 48 Hours Later
The two-year-old French counter-drone startup secured a €50M round on June 9, then signed an MoU with Airbus Defence and Space at ILA Berlin on June 11 — giving its Ukraine-tested interceptors a direct path into NATO battle-management networks.
