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Counter-UAS
Layered Counter-UAS Defense: How the Kill Chain Actually Works
From Langley's 17 nights of unidentified drones to the Navy's billion-dollar Red Sea munitions bill, the pressure to build coherent counter-drone architecture has never been higher. Here is how the layers — detect, identify, decide, defeat — actually work, what each one costs, and why none of them works alone.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's FP-5 Flamingo Strikes Complete Samara Refinery Hub Shutdown
Overnight strikes on the Kuibyshev oil refinery June 10 knocked out both primary crude distillation units, completing a sequential campaign that has taken all three Rosneft Samara-hub refineries offline. Fuel shortages now affect at least 25 Russian regions.
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Commercial & Delivery
Walmart and Wing Add Seven Metro Markets, Targeting 40 Million Americans by 2027
Wing and Walmart have crossed 1 million cumulative drone deliveries — 40% of them in a single quarter — and are now expanding to Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Salt Lake City as part of a push toward 270-plus locations by 2027.
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Tech & Builds
ERC System's Victor U250 Targets the Vertical-Lift Dead Zone — Rheinmetall Signs On
Munich startup ERC System unveiled the Victor U250 heavy-lift hybrid-electric eVTOL at ILA Berlin, a 250 kg-payload lift-and-cruise platform targeting a payload band that rotary-wing and fixed-wing logistics have largely abandoned. Rheinmetall signed a production MOU the following day.
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Policy & Regulation
Seven Years Late, FAA Proposes Petition-Based Drone Restrictions Over 9,000 Critical Infrastructure Sites
The FAA's long-overdue Section 2209 NPRM creates a two-tier Unmanned Aircraft Flight Restriction framework covering more than 9,000 facilities across 16 sectors. Comments close July 6, 2026.
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Counter-UAS
French Rafale Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia — NATO's Second Intercept in Three Weeks
A French Air and Space Force Rafale operating from Lithuania downed a drone over eastern Latvia on June 8, the second confirmed NATO intercept over allied territory in roughly three weeks, sharpening a debate over whether rotating fighters alone can hold the eastern flank.
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Industry & Contracts
PDW Acquires Vanteon to Own Its RF Stack for Contested-Spectrum Operations
Performance Drone Works is buying Rochester-based Vanteon Corporation — 40-plus years of RF and software-defined radio engineering — to bring comms resilience in-house as GPS-denied, spectrum-contested environments become the baseline threat assumption for military small UAS.
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Counter-UAS
THORIS: Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF Build a Jam-Then-Lase C-UAS Escalation Ladder
Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF unveiled THORIS at ILA Berlin 2026 — a modular counter-UAS system that sequences RF jamming and high-energy laser defeat on a single C2 stack, with full vehicle integration targeting a 2028 market entry.
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Defense & Combat
Senate NDAA Panel Wants a Four-Star Drone Command to Fix the Stovepipe Problem
The Senate Armed Services Committee's FY2027 NDAA includes a provision permitting a new Robotic and Autonomous Systems Combatant Command, a four-star headquarters with acquisition authority designed to end service-by-service drone silos — but it is a committee bill, not law.
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