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Defense & Combat
MALE and HALE UAV Deliveries in 2026: Who's Shipping What
A reference guide to medium- and high-altitude long-endurance drone deliveries in 2026: MQ-9B handovers across Europe and Asia, NATO's Triton letter of intent, Baykar's Akinci production surge, China's Wing Loong assembly lines, Israel's Heron Mk II squadron, and the Eurodrone that still isn't shipping.
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Defense & Combat
NATO Allies Sign Letter of Intent for Up to Five MQ-4C Triton Drones to Watch the High North
Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Norway signed a letter of intent in Ankara to jointly buy up to five Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton drones, extending NATO's high-altitude maritime surveillance net over the Atlantic, Baltic, and Arctic approaches.
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Defense & Combat
Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway to Buy Up to Five MQ-4C Tritons for NATO's ISR Fleet
Four NATO allies announced in Ankara that they will procure up to five Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton drones, NATO's first Triton buy, to bolster alliance-owned maritime surveillance in the High North.
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Defense & Combat
Air Force Awards CCA Production Contracts to Anduril and General Atomics Early
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.
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Defense & Combat
China's GJ-11 Sharp Sword: From Stealth Prototype to Deployed Combat Drone
China's GJ-11 'Sharp Sword' flying-wing stealth UCAV has moved from a 2013 technology demonstrator to official PLAAF formation footage, high-altitude border deployments, and a folding-wing carrier variant. A full technical breakdown of the world's most advanced non-NATO stealth combat drone.
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Defense & Combat
Wing Loong and Rainbow: China's MALE Drone Arsenal Explained
China's AVIC and CASC have placed combat-capable MALE drones in more than a dozen countries Washington would never supply. Here's how the Wing Loong and Rainbow (CH) families compare, what they've done in combat, and why they keep winning export contracts.
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Defense & Combat
MQ-1C Gray Eagle: The Army's Only MALE Drone, Caught Between Congress and Obsolescence
The MQ-1C Gray Eagle is the U.S. Army's sole medium-altitude long-endurance drone — a Predator descendant rebuilt around Army logistics, manned-unmanned teaming, and ground-force integration. Now Congress and Army leadership are openly fighting over whether it has a future.
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Defense & Combat
IAI Heron and Heron TP (Eitan): Inside Israel's Dominant MALE/HALE Drone Dynasty
From a fiberglass Scout that dismantled Syrian SAM batteries in 1982 to a 26-meter turboprop platform operating above commercial airspace today, Israel's Heron family traces the arc of modern persistent ISR — and why Israel controlled 61% of global drone exports for three decades.
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Defense & Combat
MQ-25 Stingray: How the Navy's First Carrier Drone Solves a Decades-Old Tanker Problem
The MQ-25A Stingray is the U.S. Navy's first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft — a purpose-built aerial tanker that doubles the combat radius of F/A-18s and F-35Cs while freeing multiple fighters per air wing from buddy-tanker duty.
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Defense & Combat
RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton: America's Eyes at 60,000 Feet, Explained
The RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton are the U.S. military's primary high-altitude, long-endurance ISR platforms — one headed for retirement after a decade of Congressional standoffs, the other cementing its role as the Navy's maritime surveillance backbone through the 2030s.
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Defense & Combat
From Wild Weasels to Loitering Munitions: How SEAD and DEAD Actually Work
Six decades of air-defense suppression trace how SEAD — the threat that forces radars off the air — and DEAD — the physical kill — evolved from Wild Weasel jets and anti-radiation missiles to autonomous loitering munitions that can outwait a radar gone silent.
