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Commercial & Delivery
Kirkwood Killed Walmart and Wing's St. Louis Drone Nest in 40 Seconds, Though Planners Found It Met Every Zoning Test
Kirkwood, Mo. let a Walmart/Wing drone nest permit die without a motion on Oct. 15, even though its own planners had recommended approval with 11 conditions. Local outlets still disagree on whether the council voted at all.
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Industry & Contracts
Red Cat Bids EUR 205M for Steyr Motors, the Engine Maker Behind Its Variant 7 Drone Boat, After Walking Away in July
Less than three months after withdrawing an earlier proposal, Red Cat has made a EUR 39.00-a-share cash tender offer for Steyr Motors, the Austrian maker of the diesel that first powered its Variant 7 drone boat, valuing the company at about EUR 205M.
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Industry & Contracts
AEVEX Shows Its Specter Jet Drone at AUSA: Sub-Mach, Modular Nose, First Flight Planned for December
AEVEX's Specter, a turbojet one-way-attack drone built with Divergent Technologies, made its public debut at AUSA with a swappable nose and a first flight planned for December. Range, payload and unit cost are still undisclosed.
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Counter-UAS
Hanwha's Cheongwang Laser and a 30 kW Vehicle Cannon Down Three Drones at a Korean Army Exercise, at About $1.50 a Shot
At the ROK Army's TIGER+ exercise, Hanwha's fixed Cheongwang laser and a 30 kW-class vehicle laser hit all three target drones, Hanwha says, at about KRW2,000 (US$1.50) per shot. The hit rate and cost are company claims.
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Policy & Regulation
Jovistar, Flagged as a Suspected DJI Shell, Asks to Kill Its Own FCC Drone Approval, and the Paper Trail Raises a Rules Question
A California company that DroneXL flagged as a suspected DJI front asked its certification body to dismiss its year-old FCC drone grant, saying it never sold the aircraft. The 30-day limit in the FCC's own rules makes the route it took unclear.
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Defense & Combat
Shield AI Delivers First V-BAT to Taiwan's Coast Guard, With 12 Ship-Based Drones Due and No Disclosed Price
Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration, not its military, has taken delivery of its first Shield AI V-BAT under a competitive 'Shipborne UAV' program, with twelve aircraft due in the coming months and AIDC handling local support. No one has disclosed the price.
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Commercial & Delivery
Zipline Turns 10: The Bouncy-Castle Origins of Rwanda's Drone Network, and What the '51%' Claim Actually Measures
Zipline's 10th-anniversary film recalls a bouncy castle used to catch drones in Rwanda, but its headline '51% reduction in maternal mortality' claim stretches a Wharton finding that measured in-hospital postpartum hemorrhage deaths at drone-served facilities.
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Industry & Contracts
Airbus Flew Its Uncrewed MQ-72C Lakota Connector for the Army, and the Cargo-Drone Helicopter Race Heats Up
Airbus flew its MQ-72C five times for Army leaders in Huntsville, and the safety pilot never touched the controls. The aircraft was built for the Marines, but Airbus is pitching it to the Army as an autonomous 'truck', and the Army has no formal requirement for one yet.
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Commercial & Delivery
Dominion Energy's '100 Docked Drones' Is a Multi-Year Skydio Deal, Not 100 Docks in the Field
Skydio's CEO says Dominion Energy added 100 docked drones, but in September Dominion said on stage that it had 18 Docks deployed and had agreed to a deal for 100 more over several years. The numbers point to a contract, not 100 docks already installed.
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Defense & Combat
An F-22 Pilot Commands Anduril's YFQ-44A Fury in Flight, a First for the Air Force's Quarterback Concept
In an early-October test over Edwards AFB, an F-22 pilot sent tactical directives over a data link to a pre-production YFQ-44A Fury, and the drone's autonomy carried them out. Anduril says it is the first time a Raptor and a Fury have worked this way.
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Tech & Builds
Ukraine's SkyFall Sends StarGate, a 330-Pound-Payload Medevac Drone, to a Front-Line Unit
SkyFall's StarGate, a six-rotor drone with a stretcher cabin that the company says carries 330 lb, has gone to a Ukrainian assault regiment for front-line evaluation. The unit says a month of flying will be needed before anyone knows whether it works.
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Counter-UAS
Ukraine and NATO Build an AI Model That Forecasts Where and When Russian Drones Will Attack
Ukraine and NATO's Allied Command Transformation say they have built an AI model that predicts the type, timing, location and intensity of Russian drone attacks, and that it is ready to plug into Ukrainian situational-awareness systems. Nobody outside Ukraine's MoD has checked the accuracy claims yet.
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