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Industry & Contracts
Quantum Systems Raises $1.2 Billion in Europe's Largest-Ever Defense-Tech Financing
German drone maker Quantum Systems closed a $1.2 billion Series D at an $8 billion valuation on July 2, 2026, backed by Blackstone, Airbus and Advent, days after the U.S. Army tapped its Vector AI as a Company-Level sUAS candidate.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment's Q4 Blowout: A $642M Quarter, a $1.2B Backlog, and the 'Drone Supercycle' Goes Mainstream
AeroVironment crushed estimates with a record $641.6M fiscal Q4, doubled annual revenue to nearly $2B, and grew funded backlog to $1.2B — sending shares up ~19% and turning 'drone supercycle' talk into public-market fact.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment: How a Glider Champion Built America's Tactical Drone Empire
From Paul MacCready's human-powered aircraft to a $990 million Switchblade contract and a $4.1 billion BlueHalo merger, AeroVironment has quietly become the backbone of U.S. tactical UAS — and is now reshaping itself into a multi-domain defense-tech mid-prime.
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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.
