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The Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded Epirus $11 million on August 10, 2026 to mature its vehicle-mounted HAVOC high-power microwave weapon for Marine Corps air-defense units racing to counter swarming drones.
Read the story →The Marine Corps has awarded Epirus roughly $11 million for HAVOC, an autonomy-enabled evolution of the ExDECS high-power microwave prototype — a sled-mounted swarm-killer built to fight alongside MADIS, with the company already able to build about one system per week.
In a Boeing/Northrop Grumman demo, a P-8A Poseidon crew tasked an MQ-4C Triton via machine-readable UCI messages — the drone planned its own transit, worked its sensors, processed data with AI and reported back over satellite relay, no ground control station required.
The Office of Naval Research's new 2026 S&T Strategy, 'FEED at Speed,' leans on AI to compress research timelines and targets the technology-transition 'Valley of Death' — with unmanned systems like the MDUSV Seahawk held up as the model capability.
Two U.S. Navy one-way attack unmanned surface vessels detonated at the waterline of the decommissioned ex-USS Peleliu during RIMPAC 2026 off Hawaii — the first time kamikaze sea drones featured in a Pacific SINKEX.
At the U.S. Navy's Lanternfish 2026 exercise, Ultra Maritime's Sea Spear sonar fed Anduril's Seabed Sentry and Lattice software to detect, track and classify enemy UUVs and alert operators with no human in the sensing loop.
New close-up footage of China's first Type 076, Sichuan, confirms an electromagnetic catapult and arresting gear tuned for fixed-wing UAVs — a drone-carrier capability no U.S. or NATO amphibious ship currently fields.
A July 14 Navy RFI seeks a modular "Air Wing of the Future" family of carrier-based drones spanning eight missions, from strike and air-to-air combat to refueling and resupply, with responses due Aug. 13.
A taxonomy of the drone-mothership concept across air, sea, and ground domains — from robotic combat vehicles and containerized launchers to submarine tenders — and why range-stacking and cost asymmetry are reshaping every branch of warfare.
A reference guide to medium- and high-altitude long-endurance drone deliveries in 2026: MQ-9B handovers across Europe and Asia, NATO's Triton letter of intent, Baykar's Akinci production surge, China's Wing Loong assembly lines, Israel's Heron Mk II squadron, and the Eurodrone that still isn't shipping.
The Navy will open a new round of its Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel marketplace on Aug. 1, seeking high-capacity logistics drone boats as it races to grow the fleet from 4 to 30 vessels by 2030.
Poland's Armament Agency signed a contract with Shield AI for MQ-35 V-BAT VTOL drones to be deployed aboard Polish Navy vessels for Baltic Sea maritime surveillance, with delivery expected by end of 2026.
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