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Counter-UAS
The Air Force Wants Its Own Flak Guns: New RFI Seeks a Medium-Caliber Ground Gun to Shield Overseas Bases From Drones and Cruise Missiles
A Sept. 3 Air Force RFI asks industry for a ground-based, medium-caliber gun firing cheap rounds at subsonic cruise missiles and Group 1-5 drones, the latest sign the service intends to defend its own bases rather than wait on the Army.
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Policy & Regulation
TSA Will Write Part 108's Security Rules Behind Closed Doors: Federal Register Notice Sets Up NDA-Only BVLOS Roundtables After the Rule Lands
TSA's Sept. 4 Federal Register notice invites BVLOS operators to NDA-gated, SSI-protected roundtables that will shape Part 108's security programs only after the final rule publishes, with no public comment and the FAA half still parked at OIRA.
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Industry & Contracts
Wing Hires Its Way to Scale: Ex-Navy X-47B Engineer and a Google Pixel Hardware VP Take C-Level Roles as Alphabet's Drone Arm Claims the Largest US Delivery Network
Wing's two new C-level hires, a Navy carrier-autonomy veteran and a former Google Pixel hardware chief, plus an FAA Houston plan sized for 30,000 flights a day, show Alphabet's drone unit gearing up to build and fly aircraft at consumer-electronics volumes.
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Commercial & Delivery
A Zipline Drone Parachuted Onto a Houston Highway and Nobody Called 911: Second Texas Chute Landing in Six Weeks Tests the P2's Safety Case
A Zipline P2 delivery drone deployed its emergency parachute over Cypress, Texas, and settled into the southbound lanes of Highway 6 on Sept. 4; no one was hurt, no one called police, and the cause is undisclosed. It is the second Texas chute landing in six weeks.
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Counter-UAS
Air Force Wants EchoShield Radars for a Search-and-Rescue Squadron in Italy — But Has No Money Yet
A Sept. 4 Air Force solicitation seeks four Echodyne EchoShield counter-drone radars for the 57th Rescue Squadron's HH-60Ws at Aviano, Italy — with an unusual admission built into the paperwork: the money isn't there yet.
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Defense & Combat
Germany Formally Blames Russia for Leipzig Airport Drone Attack, Shuts Bonn Consulate
Berlin has formally attributed the August 4 explosive drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport to Russia, closing Moscow's Bonn consulate and drawing NATO and EU statements of solidarity.
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Industry & Contracts
Saab Rushes Giraffe 1X Radars to the RAF as UK Counter-Drone Demand Surges
Saab UK delivered Giraffe 1X counter-drone radars to the RAF on September 2, 2026 under an urgent operational requirement, its second UK-linked Giraffe 1X order this year after a £24 million NSATU-funded buy for Ukraine.
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Policy & Regulation
UK Launches Project PANOPTES: A Race for an Ammo-Free, Laser-Armed Drone Swarm Killer
UK Defence Innovation has opened a £5 million competition for a laser-centered, highly autonomous counter-drone system meant to stop mass swarm attacks without burning through ammunition stockpiles.
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Policy & Regulation
DJI's SDR Transmission 2 Launches Worldwide — But the FCC's Covered List Keeps It Out of the US
DJI's upgraded 4K60 video link launched globally September 1, but American cinematographers can't buy it: the FCC added DJI to its Covered List in December 2025, blocking authorization for any new DJI communications gear entering the US market.
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Counter-UAS
Duke Leads $24M Army Program to Hack Enemy Drones Out of the Sky Instead of Shooting Them Down
Duke University will lead a six-year, $24 million Army-funded effort called ICE-CEM to detect, disrupt and seize control of hostile drones using cyber and radio-frequency techniques rather than kinetic interceptors.
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Commercial & Delivery
Spray Drones Take Over the Farm Progress Show's Sophomore 'Drone Zone' in Boone, Iowa
At the 2026 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, an FAA-approved Drone Zone let multiple exhibitors fly agricultural spray drones side by side over live corn daily, signaling how fast spray-drone adoption is moving from novelty to mainstream farm equipment.
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Defense & Combat
Iran's Drone and Missile Barrage Hits Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait as CENTCOM Strikes IRGC Targets
After CENTCOM struck Iranian air-defense, radar and maritime sites on September 1, Iran fired drones and ballistic missiles at US and allied targets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait in the heaviest US-Iran exchange in over a month.
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