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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment's Laser Weapon Lands Its First Foreign Buyer, Days After the Army's Production Deal
AeroVironment's LOCUST directed-energy counter-drone laser scored its first international sale, worth more than $50 million, barely a week after the US Army handed the company its first-ever production contract for a high-energy laser weapon.
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Defense & Combat
Documents Trace 46 Tons of Chinese Carbon Fiber Straight to Russia's Kamikaze Drone Plant
Shipping records verified by a U.S. House committee show state-owned Jilin Chemical Fiber Group sent 46 tons of drone-grade carbon fiber precursor directly to Russia's sanctioned Alabuga-Volokno plant — enough for roughly 1,300 attack drones.
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Policy & Regulation
$75,000-a-Violation No-Drone Zone Locks Down Dallas for the RNC Midterm Convention
Five federal agencies warned Dallas drone operators on Sept. 8 that flying inside the RNC Midterm Convention's 3-mile, 400-foot TFR risks $75,000 civil fines, criminal prosecution, and interception by Secret Service counter-drone aircraft.
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Counter-UAS
DHS Reopens Anduril's Bid for the Hardware Half of Its $1.5B Counter-Drone Contract
After GAO dismissed its protest, Anduril gets a second shot at the hardware track of DHS's $1.5B counter-UAS IDIQ — a move that could make it only the second vendor, with Leidos, to sit on both tracks of the five-year framework.
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Commercial & Delivery
A New Tracker Maps the Real Footprint Behind Amazon, Wing and Zipline's Delivery-Drone Claims
DroneXL's new Drone Delivery Tracker cross-references FAA environmental records to map Amazon, Wing and Zipline's actual US drone-delivery footprint after Amazon declined to answer questions about it.
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Policy & Regulation
Germany Pivots From Blame to Defense: Nine-City Drone Units, a Law Letting Utilities Fight Back, and Russia's Diplomatic Payback
Five weeks after the Leipzig airport drone-bomb attempt, Germany rolled out counter-drone units in nine cities and a law letting utilities actively repel drones, while Russia expelled German diplomats and shut the St. Petersburg consulate.
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Defense & Combat
72 Hours of Escalation: Ukraine's Drones Hit Kyiv, a Saratov Refinery, and Russia's Only A-50U Repair Hub
Ukrainian drones hit the Taganrog plant that repairs Russia's scarce A-50U AWACS fleet and set a Saratov refinery ablaze, while retaliatory strikes killed at least seven across Kyiv, Bryansk, Belgorod and Crimea in a single 72-hour window.
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Counter-UAS
Army's $3-a-Shot Laser Cuts Cartel Drone Flights 75% at the Border
A 20kW-class AeroVironment-derived laser mounted on a GM Defense combat vehicle has knocked down 11 cartel-linked drones in 10 days along the Rio Grande Valley, and NORTHCOM says overall drone activity there has fallen roughly 75% since it started firing.
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Commercial & Delivery
Australia Deploys AI Drone Specialists Into Nepal's Catastrophic Flood Zone
Australia sent a 15-person AI drone team into Nepal's flood zone as the death toll passed 1,200, joining civilian operators already flying DJI FlyCart 100 cargo drones to move bodies and supplies through terrain ground crews can't reach.
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Policy & Regulation
FCC's 'Military-Grade' Drone Ban Draws 98.6% Opposition in Public Comments
A Pilot Institute analysis of the FCC's closed comment docket found 3,770 of 3,824 readable filings (98.6%) opposed its plan to ban foreign 'military-grade' drones, with 99.4% calling the proposed thermal/LiDAR/dock/spray/55-lb categories overbroad.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's AI-Guided Hornet Drones and FP-1s Escalate Deep Strikes Inside Russia
Ukraine has fired over 10,000 AI-guided Hornet munitions in three months and used Fire Point's FP-1 drones to knock a major Rosneft refinery fully offline, marking a sharp escalation in autonomous deep-strike capability.
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Defense & Combat
After Losing a Quarter of Its Reapers Over Iran, the Air Force Pulls Its $10M 'Massed Modular Aircraft' Successor Forward Two Years
With at least 45 MQ-9s shot down in Operation Epic Fury and Reaper production already shut, the Air Force is dragging DIU's $10M-per-airframe Massed Modular Aircraft from a 2031 target to as early as 2029.
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