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Airbus and Kratos have flown the U740 Valkyrie, a Europeanized XQ-58A, in Europe for the first time. The next test is whether Airbus's MARS mission system can make an American airframe a sovereign German combat drone by 2029.
Read the story →The Army awarded Elroy Air a $46 million Phase III SBIR contract to add GPS-denied navigation, encrypted comms and expeditionary planning tools to its runway-independent Chaparral cargo drone.
The NNSA office that moves US nuclear weapons by road just handed Kratos a $156M sole-source IDIQ for mobile counter-drone systems — pushing domestic C-UAS off the fixed perimeter and onto a convoy doing highway speed, where jamming and kinetic response both hit hard limits.
Ark Invest bought roughly $9.1 million of Kratos Defense stock in early July 2026, betting on a drone maker whose unmanned systems revenue is growing over 30% amid a proposed $70 billion Pentagon drone budget.
Kratos is expanding its Oklahoma City campus by more than 100,000 square feet to push jet-drone output beyond 165 units a year, backing Valkyrie, Firejet and Taiwan's Mighty Hornet IV programs.
Elroy Air will list on Nasdaq as ELRY via a merger with Columbus Circle Capital Corp II, valuing the hybrid-electric Chaparral cargo drone maker at roughly $1 billion.
U.S. drone stocks extended a sharp run in late June 2026 on reports the Pentagon is weighing equity stakes in domestic makers — the backdrop being a $54.6B FY27 request for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, up from a $225M base.
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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