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Commercial & Delivery
275 Nautical Miles on Electrons: An Organ Crosses State Lines Aboard an eVTOL in the FAA's First eIPP Flights
BETA Technologies flew an animal organ roughly 275 nautical miles from Virginia to Baltimore in the FAA's first eIPP operational flights — but it took two ALIA aircraft and a mid-route handoff, and that relay says more about electric aviation's real constraint than any press release will.
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Policy & Regulation
The BVLOS Rule Is at the White House — and Nobody Agrees on Which Rule It Is
The FAA's Part 108 BVLOS rule reached OIRA on July 10, 2026, and trade press called it a proposed rule moving forward. The live review record says otherwise: Stage — Final Rule. The difference is roughly a year of your operating plans.
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Tech & Builds
Seeing for the Pilot Who Isn't There: Ground-Based Optical Radar Takes Aim at the BVLOS Bottleneck
High Lander and Thirdeye are moving detect-and-avoid off the airframe and onto the ground — a passive optical radar feeding a live national UTM, tested against helicopters approaching out of the sun, and aimed squarely at the non-cooperative-traffic clause holding up Part 108.
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Defense & Combat
Two Drones a Day: Ukraine Codified 413 New UAS in Six Months — and Nearly 90% Are Homemade
Ukraine's Defence Ministry says it codified 413 new unmanned aerial systems in the first half of 2026 — more than two a day, up 30% on 2025 — with copter strike drones and jam-immune fiber-optic systems leading the mix.
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Counter-UAS
Railgun Logic for the Drone Age: The Army Is Testing Whether Electricity Can Undercut the $1M Interceptor
Auriga Space and Army DEVCOM AC signed a three-year CRADA to study electromagnetic launch as a cheap, high-cadence counter-drone effector — but a CRADA is a data-sharing deal, explicitly not a contract award, procurement decision, or Army endorsement.
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Tech & Builds
Dassault and Harmattan AI Fly Rafale-Controlled Drone Carrying New Radar-Hunting Payload
A Rafale F4 controlled a drone carrying Dassault and Harmattan AI's new NAMIB electronic-warfare payload, which geolocated a radar dozens of kilometers away and cued a simulated strike -- an early proof point for human-machine teaming on SEAD missions.
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Industry & Contracts
Elbit Pitches Turning Commercial Cargo Ships Into Floating Drone Carriers
Elbit Systems is marketing a concept to convert commercial vessels into floating drone bases carrying 9-12 Hermes 650 Spark aircraft, offering countries like Japan, Denmark and Germany a cheaper alternative to aircraft carriers for maritime surveillance.
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Policy & Regulation
EU and Ukraine Sign 'Drone Deal,' Release €1 Billion to Scale Up Joint Drone Production
Von der Leyen and Zelenskyy signed the first EU-wide Drone Deal in Kyiv on July 15, unlocking €1 billion in fresh funding and 19 founding companies to fuse Ukrainian battlefield know-how with European industrial capacity.
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Defense & Combat
Navy Wants a Family of Carrier-Based Drones That Can Do Everything From Strikes to Aerial Refueling
A July 14 Navy RFI seeks a modular "Air Wing of the Future" family of carrier-based drones spanning eight missions, from strike and air-to-air combat to refueling and resupply, with responses due Aug. 13.
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Counter-UAS
Japan's Terra Drone Teams With UAE Defense Prime EDGE Group to Build Cheap Drone Interceptors
Terra Drone's Terra Inspectioneering signed a July 7 MoU with EDGE Group subsidiary IGG to push the Terra A1 interceptor as a low-cost counter to Shahed-type attack drones, betting on months-long design cycles over traditional missile-based defenses.
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Industry & Contracts
Sam Altman-Backed Brinc Raises $125M to Put a 911 Response Drone on 80,000 Police and Fire Roofs
Motorola Solutions led a $125M round for public-safety drone maker Brinc on July 14, 2026, nearly doubling its valuation as a December 2025 FCC ruling froze DJI out of the U.S. market it's racing to capture.
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Policy & Regulation
The FCC Is About to Make DJI Impossible to Buy on Amazon — and Every Wireless Gadget Harder to Fake
The FCC votes July 22, 2026 on a Third Report and Order requiring marketplaces like Amazon to show FCC IDs at checkout and closing a "logic-bearing hardware" loophole that let Covered List components, including DJI's, back into U.S. commerce.
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