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Tech & Builds
GKN Aerospace Rolls Out Turbojet UAV Demonstrator for Sweden's FMV in Under a Year
GKN Aerospace unveiled a full-scale turbojet UAV demonstrator for Sweden's FMV just nine months after contract award, with engine testing already underway toward an 18-month program goal.
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Industry & Contracts
Patria Teams With Ukraine's General Cherry to Build Combat-Tested Drones in Finland
Finnish defense manufacturer Patria signed a letter of intent with Ukraine's General Cherry to co-develop and produce battle-proven FPV-strike and interceptor drones in Finland, with Janes reporting the Bullet and Air Speed UAVs among the models planned for local manufacture.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon's Sixfold Prime Air Expansion Runs Into a City-by-City FAA Bottleneck
Amazon wants Prime Air drone delivery in nearly 500 U.S. cities by end of 2026, but each new site still needs its own FAA environmental review — and Chicago's three centers are still waiting.
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Defense & Combat
US Army Shuts Down 173rd Airborne's Experimental Drone Battalion in Europe
Less than a year after standing up a 600-soldier drone battalion modeled on Ukraine's tactics, the Army is dissolving it and sending the 173rd Airborne back to core infantry duty.
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Policy & Regulation
FCC Opens Formal Comment Period on Banning Foreign 'Military-Grade' Drones Under NDAA Covered List
The FCC formally opened a 30-day comment window on banning sale and import of foreign UAS and components tied to its Covered List, with a disclosed May 2026 probe into US-based Anzu and warnings from DJI that farm drones could get caught in the net.
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Counter-UAS
Unauthorized Drones Keep Grounding US Wildfire Aircraft as Incursions Hit 67 for the Year
Oregon officials warn that a single unauthorized drone can ground an entire wildfire air fleet, as the U.S. Forest Service logs 67 incursions nationally in 2026 — including 26 in one day over Washington's Spokane Complex fire.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon's Prime Air Drone Delivery Set to Expand Sixfold to Nearly 500 US Cities
Amazon plans to grow Prime Air drone delivery more than sixfold by the end of 2026, from 11 sites in seven states to nearly 500 US cities, under new FAA beyond-visual-line-of-sight authorization.
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Defense & Combat
Army Awards Elroy Air $46M to Advance Chaparral Heavy-Lift Cargo Drone
The Army awarded Elroy Air a $46 million Phase III SBIR contract to add GPS-denied navigation, encrypted comms and expeditionary planning tools to its runway-independent Chaparral cargo drone.
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Counter-UAS
NATO and Ukrainian Troops Link Sensors and Shooters to Test Networked Counter-Drone Defense in Baltic Trust
Roughly 650 personnel from 24 nations, including Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade, tested a distributed counter-UAS network in Latvia — sharing sensor and command data across formations in the latest round of NATO's Layered Counter-UAS Initiative.
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Industry & Contracts
Helsing Taps Rakuten as First Civilian Broker to Sell HX-2 Strike Drones to Japan
German defense-AI firm Helsing has enlisted Rakuten as its authorized Japan broker for the HX-2 strike drone, making the e-commerce giant the first civilian company certified under Tokyo's reformed arms-procurement rules while JGSDF field trials run through September 2026.
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Tech & Builds
GAO Says the FAA Still Has No Plan for How Drones Will Talk to Airplanes — Even as the Agency Touts NextGen Progress
A GAO review finds the FAA has no technical milestones for drone-aircraft communication even as its fleet swells toward 1.18 million by 2029, a gap exposed just as the agency published a NextGen fact sheet touting DroneZone, LAANC and Remote ID.
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Defense & Combat
Rheinmetall Fires Its FV-014 Loitering Munition From a Moving Truck-Mounted Container for the First Time
Rheinmetall launched its FV-014 loitering munition from a containerized launcher mounted on a moving HX truck for the first time, at a DLR test site in Germany last month.
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