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Defense & Combat
Drones in the Strait: Iran's One-Way Attack Drones Hit Two Ships, Triggering Back-to-Back CENTCOM Strikes
Two one-way attack drones struck commercial vessels exiting the Strait of Hormuz on June 25 and 27, 2026, prompting two nights of U.S. strikes on Iranian drone-storage, radar and minelaying sites — and putting cheap loitering munitions at the center of a freedom-of-navigation crisis.
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Policy & Regulation
One Line About Drones in Trump's Resilience Strategy — and What It Signals for Part 108
Commercial drones appear exactly once in the White House's June 2026 National Resilience Strategy — in Trump's intro — but the placement, not the prose, is the signal for Part 108 and supply chains.
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Policy & Regulation
The Drone Lobby Storms Capitol Hill: Adversarial-UAS Bans, Counter-UAS Authority, and a $70B FY27 Bet
At AUVSI's June 24 Hill Day, 100+ industry leaders ran 90+ meetings to push procurement bans on adversarial-nation drones, more DHS counter-UAS grants, and permanent Blue/Green UAS pathways — as core DoD C-UAS authority nears its Dec. 31 sunset and FY27 steers $70B+ to drone dominance.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Top Strike-Drone Maker Turns to Missile Defense: Inside Fire Point's $700K 'Freyja' Interceptor
Fire Point, the firm behind Ukraine's FP-1/FP-2 deep-strike drones and FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile, is building 'Freyja,' a sub-$1M ballistic-missile interceptor around the FP-7.X, integrating German Hensoldt radar and aiming for a first operational intercept by end of 2027.
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Tech & Builds
One Laser, Two Jobs: Navy Lab Beams Power to a Forward Base, Then Kills a Drone in a Whiteout
The Naval Research Laboratory demonstrated a dual-use laser that wirelessly beams power to a forward base, switches to shoot down a drone in near-whiteout snow, then resumes power delivery without restarting — a field test built to gather real atmospheric-degradation data.
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Counter-UAS
Munich's Tytan to Build 3,000 Interceptor Drones a Month, Claims Air Defense '200 Times Cheaper'
Munich startup Tytan Technologies is opening a German factory to build 3,000 autonomous interceptor drones a month from August 2026, with combat-proven EOS and METIS systems and a CEO claim of air defense 200 times cheaper than legacy hardware.
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Commercial & Delivery
Walmart and Wing Target Maricopa: Drone Delivery's Next Frontier Hinges on Class G Airspace and the Part 108 Clock
Walmart and Alphabet's Wing plan a tethered drone-delivery hub in Maricopa, Arizona — one of seven new markets — but the real gating factor is FAA approval as the agency transitions from Part 135 waivers to the incoming Part 108 BVLOS framework.
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Counter-UAS
Army Repurposes 'Gunslinger,' a Cancelled Helicopter's Fire-Control Brain, to Shoot Down Drones on the Move
The Army's DEVCOM Armaments Center adapted 'Gunslinger' fire control—built for the cancelled FARA helicopter—so a common Remote Operated Weapon Station can engage small drones while shooting on the move, demonstrated in April at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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Tech & Builds
Dominion Energy Now Flies 50 Drones Over the U.S. Grid — a Live Test of Cellular BVLOS and Drone-in-a-Box Autonomy at Utility Scale
Dominion Energy has scaled to 50 drones — including 23 docked 'drone-in-a-box' units at substations — flown beyond visual line of sight over cellular networks from a central operations center, a concrete look at enterprise BVLOS past the pilot stage.
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Policy & Regulation
FAA Breaks Ground on V-PAR, Its First Dedicated eVTOL Test Range, to Solve the Vertiport Integration Problem
The FAA broke ground June 26, 2026 on V-PAR, an ~$8.3M Oklahoma City test range purpose-built to study how eVTOL aircraft fold into the National Airspace System — wake, downwash, RF interference and vertiport procedures.
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Commercial & Delivery
Skyways Bets on Offshore: An Austin Operator Scales Heavy-Lift Cargo Drones Ahead of Part 108
Austin's Skyways Aviation is scaling its offshore heavy-lift drone fleet — a 1,000-mile dual-fuel VTOL already serving oil majors, ANA and DSV — as it positions for the FAA's forthcoming Part 108 BVLOS rule.
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Counter-UAS
Lithuania's Granta Autonomy Unveils 'Black Wasp,' a 320 km/h AI Interceptor Built to Hunt Shaheds
Granta Autonomy's Black Wasp is a 4 kg, 320 km/h AI-guided interceptor built to chase and kill Shahed-136s and other strike drones, using jamming-resilient ML navigation and onboard computer vision cued by NATO air-defense radar.
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