Industry & Contracts
Drone industry news from UASFeed — procurement awards, defense primes and startups, funding rounds, and the business of uncrewed systems.
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Industry & Contracts
Red Cat's Hellcat sUAS Debuts at Eurosatory — Shaped by Ukrainian Warfighters in the Field
Red Cat Holdings launched the Hellcat small UAS at Eurosatory 2026, a battlefield-refined successor to the Army-fielded Black Widow co-developed with Ukrainian drone operators, featuring a three-camera payload, GPS-denied operation, and 6.8-mile range.
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Industry & Contracts
Drone Insurance Decoded: Liability, Hull, BVLOS, and What Things Cost
Part 107 proves you can fly — it doesn't cover anything when something goes wrong. A structured look at commercial UAS insurance: coverage types, premium ranges by operation, the on-demand policy model, and why BVLOS requires its own specialist approach.
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Industry & Contracts
Airbus and Kratos Unveil U740 Valkyrie at ILA Berlin, Targeting Luftwaffe Service by 2029
Airbus Defence and Space has teamed with Kratos to bring a Europeanized XQ-58A Valkyrie to ILA Berlin as the U740, targeting German Luftwaffe operational use by 2029 — alongside a reveal of the all-European Ravenstorm UCCA concept aimed at the early 2030s.
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Industry & Contracts
Alta Ares Closes €50M, Then Lands Airbus Partnership 48 Hours Later
The two-year-old French counter-drone startup secured a €50M round on June 9, then signed an MoU with Airbus Defence and Space at ILA Berlin on June 11 — giving its Ukraine-tested interceptors a direct path into NATO battle-management networks.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment and Ubiqconn Target Taiwan's Controller Fragmentation Problem
AeroVironment and Taiwan's Ubiqconn Technology have signed an MOU to build a common drone-controller ecosystem for Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense, which is pursuing procurement of tens of thousands of domestically produced UAS — and needs a single interface to run all of them.
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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.
