NATO
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Tech & Builds
eVTOL, Drone, UAV, UAS, RPAS: A Precise Guide to Six Terms That Aren't Interchangeable
Six overlapping terms describe aircraft that fly without an on-board human — or sometimes with one. Which label applies determines which regulations govern you, how DoD classifies a platform, and whether a Joby air taxi is legally a drone at all.
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Counter-UAS
Listening for Drones: How Acoustic Detection Works — and Where It Falls Short
Acoustic microphone arrays can detect drones by their blade-passing frequencies from hundreds of meters away using beamforming and AI classification. Ukraine's 24,000-sensor network shows what the technology can do at scale — and reveals the hard limits of listening alone.
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Counter-UAS
Net Capture Systems: The Case for Catching Drones Instead of Destroying Them
Kinetic destruction and RF jamming both carry unacceptable collateral risks in civilian airspace. A new generation of net-capture systems — compressed-air launchers and autonomous interceptor hexacopters — offers a low-debris, forensics-preserving alternative built for populated environments.
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Counter-UAS
NATO's Drone Wall: How Europe Is Building a 2,000-Kilometer Counter-UAS Barrier
After Russian surveillance drones crossed into Polish airspace in September 2025, NATO launched Operation Eastern Sentry and the EU accelerated plans for a 2,000-km integrated counter-drone corridor. Here's how the technology, politics, and money actually stack up.
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Defense & Combat
From Wild Weasels to Loitering Munitions: How SEAD and DEAD Actually Work
Six decades of air-defense suppression trace how SEAD — the threat that forces radars off the air — and DEAD — the physical kill — evolved from Wild Weasel jets and anti-radiation missiles to autonomous loitering munitions that can outwait a radar gone silent.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Drone Industry: How 7 Manufacturers Became 500 Under Fire
In three years of full-scale war, Ukraine built one of the world's most battle-tested drone industries from scratch—capable of 4 million units per year—while racing to cut a near-total dependency on Chinese components.
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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.
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Defense & Combat
DoD Drone Groups 1–5 Explained: The Classification That Governs Everything
The Pentagon's five-group UAS taxonomy determines who can buy a drone, which airspace it flies in, who is responsible for shooting it down, and what legal authorities apply. Here is how it works and why it is under strain.
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Counter-UAS
French Rafale Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia — NATO's Second Intercept in Three Weeks
A French Air and Space Force Rafale operating from Lithuania downed a drone over eastern Latvia on June 8, the second confirmed NATO intercept over allied territory in roughly three weeks, sharpening a debate over whether rotating fighters alone can hold the eastern flank.
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Counter-UAS
THORIS: Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF Build a Jam-Then-Lase C-UAS Escalation Ladder
Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF unveiled THORIS at ILA Berlin 2026 — a modular counter-UAS system that sequences RF jamming and high-energy laser defeat on a single C2 stack, with full vehicle integration targeting a 2028 market entry.
