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X-Bow Systems debuted Buckler at Farnborough 2026 — a supersonic, sub-$100,000 surface-to-air interceptor for Group 3 drones, built airframe-and-motor in-house to attack the economics of trading million-dollar missiles against $35,000 Shaheds.
Read the story →At Farnborough on 20 July 2026, Lockheed Martin unveiled MORFIUS X-Rotor, an airborne high-power-microwave interceptor it claims can neutralise 50-plus drones per flight and then be recovered and reused — a direct answer to the cost-exchange problem Congress has hammered DoD over for three years.
The Space Force killed its Resilient GPS anti-jam satellite program in January 2026. Here's why it died, what M-code, GPS IIIF and CRPA anti-jam antennas are doing instead, and why the timing is brutal given jamming in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Ondas Inc. secured more than $40 million in new defense orders during June 2026 — spanning Counter-UAS platforms, loitering munition systems, and related services — while its UK subsidiary Rotron completed a key flight trial of the SkyLance one-way effector under the UK Ministry of Defence's Project Brakestop.
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.
Optionally piloted aircraft hold manned airworthiness certificates while enabling fully autonomous operations—closing the regulatory gap that stalls pure UAVs. From proven Afghan cargo resupply missions to DARPA’s autonomous Black Hawk delivered to the Army in 2026, the concept reshapes military logistics and aviation.
Fortem's DroneHunter F700 autonomously pursues hostile drones, fires tethered nets to capture them in flight, and tows the platform to a forensics zone — no explosives, no jamming. With 4,500+ captures, a Replicator 2 contract, and $25M from Lockheed Martin, it is the Pentagon's answer to GPS-waypoint threats that jammers cannot touch.
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.
Russian jamming dropped FPV hit rates from 40–60% to under 30%. Ukraine's response accelerated every GPS-denied navigation technique in the book — from inertial sensors and visual odometry to quantum magnetometers and $50 autonomy modules. Here's how each layer works.
Trump's Golden Dome extends U.S. homeland missile defense from rogue-state ICBMs to cruise missiles and drones — but a CBO projection of $1.2 trillion over 20 years, driven by a 7,800-satellite constellation that can only engage 10 missiles at once, exposes a gap between strategic ambition and reality.
Two directed-energy technologies are competing to replace the $2-million missile shot against $500 drones — high-power microwave systems that blanket swarms in a single burst, and high-energy lasers that burn targets one at a time. The physics of each determines where they win and where they fail.
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