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Venture funding into defense and national-security startups hit $14.6B in the first five months of 2026, already crushing 2025's full-year record of $9.6B, as drone and autonomy megarounds from Anduril, Shield AI and Saronic dominate the flow.
Read the story →The U.S. Air Force selected General Atomics and Anduril Industries on June 17 to produce the first operational Collaborative Combat Aircraft — the FQ-42A and FQ-44A — targeting more than 150 combat-capable drones by decade's end under a unit cost ceiling near one-third of an F-35A.
Founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and four co-founders, Anduril Industries has grown from a border-surveillance startup into a $30.5 billion defense technology company producing autonomous systems across air, sea, and ground domains on its Lattice AI platform.
Every drone airframe resolves the same core tension: hover capability costs endurance, endurance costs hover. A physics-first breakdown of how multirotors, fixed-wing platforms, and hybrid VTOLs make that tradeoff — and which missions each class actually wins.
Air-launched effects (ALE) divorce mission risk from platform cost by stacking a mothership's standoff range on top of a drone's own reach — letting aircraft dispense swarms deep inside defended airspace without entering it. From DARPA's Gremlins to China's Jiutian, the concept is going mainstream.
Lattice is Anduril’s AI command-and-control platform fusing sensors, drones, and effectors into a unified operational picture. With over $25 billion in known contract ceilings and a $20B Army enterprise agreement, it’s becoming the connective tissue of U.S. autonomous warfare.
Uncrewed undersea vehicles now patrol the same cables that carry 97% of global communications. From man-portable REMUS scouts to 85-ton Orca XLUUVs, this is how the U.S. Navy classifies, builds, and struggles to field them — and why China is moving faster.
Collaborative Combat Aircraft are semi-autonomous armed platforms built to fly alongside crewed fighters, running strikes, EW, and ISR while the pilot sets objectives rather than flies the drone. From the USAF's competing YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A to Australia's Ghost Bat, here is the full picture.
From Israel's 1989 Harpy to Ukraine's Lancet hunter-killer teams, loitering munitions fuse sensor and effector into a single expendable platform — a category distinct from both the cruise missile and the reusable drone, and now in procurement at scale across 50-plus countries.
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