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Counter-UAS
The Pentagon's New Rulebook Says Drones Aren't a 'Silver Bullet' — Inside JIATF-401's C-UAS Handbook
JIATF-401's new handbook trades shoot-first instincts for a 'Four Ps, Five Ds' framework, backed by Shahed and FPV casualty data showing why kinetic-only counter-drone thinking fails.
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Defense & Combat
Sea, Land, and Air: Ukraine Pulls Off the First Fully Unmanned Amphibious Assault at Kinburn Spit
Ukraine's 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade landed an armed robotic boat-ferried machine-gun UGV on Russian-held Kinburn Spit under drone watch on July 13, 2026 — with zero humans in any domain, what analysts call the first fully unmanned combined-domain amphibious raid in history.
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Commercial & Delivery
A Rogue Drone Just Grounded an Entire Aerial Firefighting Fleet on an 18,800-Hectare BC Blaze
An unauthorized drone near the Brunswick Complex wildfire forced BC Wildfire Service to halt all air tankers and helicopters on an 18,859-hectare blaze — the latest hobbyist incursion to shut down contracted firefighting aviation exactly when it's needed most.
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Policy & Regulation
Can You Legally Shoot Down a Drone Over Your Property? What the Case Law Actually Says
The Kentucky 'drone slayer' case never settled the law, and two 2024 Florida prosecutions show real consequences. Here's what the case law and stalled state bills actually say about shooting down a drone.
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Defense & Combat
Drone Motherships Explained: Air, Sea, and Ground Launch Platforms Compared
A taxonomy of the drone-mothership concept across air, sea, and ground domains — from robotic combat vehicles and containerized launchers to submarine tenders — and why range-stacking and cost asymmetry are reshaping every branch of warfare.
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Defense & Combat
What Military Drones Actually Cost, Platform by Platform
A verified cost ladder across drone classes, from $500 FPV strike drones to a $618 million MQ-4C Triton, showing why unit cost, all-up-round cost, and program cost are not the same number.
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Defense & Combat
How Military Drone Pilots Are Trained: Inside the UAS Pipeline
From Air Force officers flying MQ-9 Reapers to Army 15Ws at Fort Huachuca to squad-level FPV familiarization, a look at how the U.S. military actually trains drone operators, and how South Korea and Ukraine compare.
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Tech & Builds
How the Military Is Solving GPS Jamming Now That R-GPS Is Dead
The Space Force killed its Resilient GPS anti-jam satellite program in January 2026. Here's why it died, what M-code, GPS IIIF and CRPA anti-jam antennas are doing instead, and why the timing is brutal given jamming in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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Defense & Combat
MALE and HALE UAV Deliveries in 2026: Who's Shipping What
A reference guide to medium- and high-altitude long-endurance drone deliveries in 2026: MQ-9B handovers across Europe and Asia, NATO's Triton letter of intent, Baykar's Akinci production surge, China's Wing Loong assembly lines, Israel's Heron Mk II squadron, and the Eurodrone that still isn't shipping.
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Counter-UAS
Counter-UAS Technology Compared: Kinetic, RF Jamming, High-Power Microwave, Laser, and Net Interceptors
A side-by-side comparison of the five ways drones are actually defeated today — kinetic interceptors, RF/GPS jamming, high-power microwave, directed-energy lasers, and net-capture systems — with range, cost per engagement, tradeoffs, and who's legally allowed to use each under SAFER SKIES.
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Policy & Regulation
DHS and DOJ Issue Interim Final Rule Letting State and Local Police Detect, Track and Take Down Drones
A new joint DHS/DOJ interim final rule, effective July 1, 2026, hands state, local, Tribal and territorial police and correctional agencies detection and — for the first time — drone mitigation authority, with public comment open through September 4.
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Counter-UAS
Echodyne Opens $40M Washington Plant to Push MESA Counter-Drone Radar to 30,000 Units a Year
Kirkland-based Echodyne opened a $40 million, 86,350-sq-ft radar factory in Woodinville, Washington on July 9, targeting 30,000+ MESA counter-UAS radars a year as Ukraine-driven demand outpaces supply.
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