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Drone technology from UASFeed — autonomy, swarming, sensors, counter-jamming, FPV builds, and the engineering underneath uncrewed flight.
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DARPA-Backed SYMPHONEE Program Aims to Turn Nuclear Waste Into Decades-Long Drone Power
A Morgan State-led team is building SYMPHONEE, a Strontium-90 radiovoltaic cell under a $3.37M DARPA contract, targeting over 10 W/kg and decades of unattended power for drones and remote systems.
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Study Finds RF Drone-Detection Benchmarks Wildly Overstate Real-World Accuracy
A new arXiv study shows a common validation shortcut inflates RF drone-classification accuracy scores, cutting DroneRF's macro-F1 from 0.74 to 0.46 once the leakage is closed.
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Ukraine's $2,000 ZIRKA: A 340 km/h Auto-Targeting Interceptor Built to Swat Shaheds Out of the Sky
Vyriy Industries and NOCTIS unveiled ZIRKA on June 30, 2026 — a 340+ km/h autonomous interceptor drone that detects, tracks and destroys Shahed-type loitering munitions for as little as $2,000 a unit, with automatic detection and terminal guidance built in.
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Every Soldier a Drone Operator: South Korea Vows 500,000 'Drone Warriors' and Its First Counter-Drone Standard
South Korea will train 500,000 'drone warriors,' field ~60,000 domestic UAVs by 2029, add 20,000+ expendable drones by 2030, and has issued KS W 8100, its first national counter-drone testing standard.
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One Laser, Two Jobs: Navy Lab Beams Power to a Forward Base, Then Kills a Drone in a Whiteout
The Naval Research Laboratory demonstrated a dual-use laser that wirelessly beams power to a forward base, switches to shoot down a drone in near-whiteout snow, then resumes power delivery without restarting — a field test built to gather real atmospheric-degradation data.
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Dominion Energy Now Flies 50 Drones Over the U.S. Grid — a Live Test of Cellular BVLOS and Drone-in-a-Box Autonomy at Utility Scale
Dominion Energy has scaled to 50 drones — including 23 docked 'drone-in-a-box' units at substations — flown beyond visual line of sight over cellular networks from a central operations center, a concrete look at enterprise BVLOS past the pilot stage.
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Montevideo Wires Gunshot Detection Straight Into Autonomous Drones — a Drone-as-First-Responder First for Latin America
FlytBase and Uruguay's Interior Ministry went live June 24 with what's billed as Latin America's first city-scale system linking a ShotSpotter gunshot network directly to autonomous drones — gunfire auto-launches a docked drone that streams live video to a command center within minutes, no pilot in the loop.
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Indra Floats Electronic Warfare 100 Meters Up: A Tethered-Drone EW Node for the Eastern-Front Era
Spain's Indra Group debuted a tethered quadcopter at Eurosatory that lifts electronic-warfare sensors more than 100 meters off a 4x4, extending detection of enemy comms and drone links by tens of kilometers — a design shaped by Ukraine-war lessons.
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Hoverfly's New 'Elements' Division Bets That the Pentagon's War on Chinese Drone Parts Is Just Getting Started
At XPONENTIAL 2026, Hoverfly launched Elements, an NDAA-compliant drone components line — motors, ESCs and anti-jam GPS modules — built to meet the Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program deadlines for purging Chinese parts from $6.6B in sUAS buys.
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Drone Flight Controllers Explained: The Open-Source Autopilot Brain Running Combat UAVs
The flight controller — the embedded autopilot at the heart of every drone — is the same open-source technology that guided Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web strikes on Russian strategic air bases. Here’s how it works and why it matters.
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Three Axes, One Problem: How Drone Gimbals Keep Cameras Locked On Target
Brushless gimbals isolate a drone camera from every pitch, roll, and yaw disturbance the airframe throws at it — using MEMS IMUs, real-time sensor fusion, and closed-loop motor control. The same physics that gives consumer aerial footage its glassy stability scales, with added axes and sensor channels, to military EO/IR targeting turrets.
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Drone Ground Control Stations Explained: MAVLink, Datalinks, and the MQ-9 Flight Deck
Ground control stations span from a $50 telemetry radio running open-source Mission Planner to hardened USAF shelters managing satellite-linked MQ-9s worldwide. Here's how MAVLink, mission-planning software, datalinks, and military GCS tiers actually work.
