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Policy & Regulation
FCC Moves to Ban Import and Sale of Foreign 'Military-Grade' Drones Already on Its Covered List
The FCC is seeking comment on prohibiting the import, marketing, and sale of certain foreign military-grade drones on its Covered List, while extending Blue UAS and Buy-America exemptions to 2028 and opening its first equipment-authorization revocation against DJI-linked Odyssey Robot.
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Industry & Contracts
The Invisible Bottleneck: Jam-Resistant Drone Radios Scale Up as Doodle Labs Eyes US and European Plants
Doodle Labs says it is exploring US and European production within two years to feed surging demand for jam-resistant mesh radios — the scarce connective tissue deciding whether Western drone mass survives contested spectrum.
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Tech & Builds
$10 a Kill: The Marine Corps Picks Allen Control Systems' AI-Autonomous 'Bullfrog' Gun Turret
The US Marine Corps has selected Allen Control Systems' Bullfrog M240 — an AI-driven turret that auto-aims a belt-fed machine gun at drones — for its air-defense mission on the L-MADIS vehicle, promising kills as cheap as $10.
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Counter-UAS
X-Bow's 'Buckler': A Sub-$100,000 Supersonic Interceptor Built to Break the Counter-Drone Cost Curve
X-Bow Systems debuted Buckler at Farnborough 2026 — a supersonic, sub-$100,000 surface-to-air interceptor for Group 3 drones, built airframe-and-motor in-house to attack the economics of trading million-dollar missiles against $35,000 Shaheds.
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Counter-UAS
Lockheed's MORFIUS X-Rotor Bets That the Cheapest Way to Kill a Swarm Is a Drone You Fly Home Afterwards
At Farnborough on 20 July 2026, Lockheed Martin unveiled MORFIUS X-Rotor, an airborne high-power-microwave interceptor it claims can neutralise 50-plus drones per flight and then be recovered and reused — a direct answer to the cost-exchange problem Congress has hammered DoD over for three years.
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Policy & Regulation
Minneapolis Council Kills Its Skydio Drone-as-First-Responder Pilot Over ICE and Israel Sales
A 6-6 tie sank Minneapolis PD's proposed 75-day Skydio drone trial on July 16, 2026, as council members objected to the company's drone sales to ICE and the Israeli military — a reversal that shows procurement politics now gating public-safety drone adoption.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Overnight Drones Go After the Supply Lines Feeding Russia's Own Drone Factories
Ukraine says its overnight July 18 long-range raid hit two Russian logistics centers moving sanctioned drone components, an oil depot near Moscow, and Black Sea/Azov naval targets — a supply-chain-interdiction turn in the deep-strike campaign.
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Commercial & Delivery
ZenaTech's 25th Buyout Pushes Drone-as-a-Service Into Oil-and-Gas Compliance Flying
ZenaTech closed its 25th acquisition since January 2025, buying Alberta-based Velocity Geomatics to push its Drone-as-a-Service model into environmental and regulatory compliance flying for the oil-and-gas sector.
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Policy & Regulation
US Clears $80.1M Sale of AeroVironment Switchblade 300 Loitering Munitions to Greece
The State Department has approved and DSCA notified a possible $80.1M Foreign Military Sale of 350 Switchblade 300 Block 20 loitering munitions and 35 fire-control systems to Greece, bound for the Hellenic Special Warfare Command's Evros and Aegean frontier.
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Commercial & Delivery
Matternet Adds Beeline UAS to Its Part 135 Network, Betting on Operators Instead of Owning Every Route
Matternet has added Beeline UAS to its FAA Part 135 drone-delivery operator network, letting Beeline fly Matternet's platform under its own air-carrier certificate across new U.S. markets -- a franchise-style scaling model rather than Matternet operating every route itself.
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Tech & Builds
Operation Firecrest: How the Royal Navy Grew a New Heavy-Lift Drone Trick in the High North
Aboard HMS Prince of Wales during Operation Firecrest, the Royal Navy's 700X Naval Air Squadron gave the Malloy T-150B a 15 m drop-down cable to deliver 60 kg loads ship-to-ship without landing, and flew its first drone-based search-and-rescue role dropping life-rafts.
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Defense & Combat
China's Type 076 'Sichuan' Becomes the World's First Amphibious Assault Ship to Catapult-Launch Combat Drones
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.
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