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Auriga Space and Army DEVCOM AC signed a three-year CRADA to study electromagnetic launch as a cheap, high-cadence counter-drone effector — but a CRADA is a data-sharing deal, explicitly not a contract award, procurement decision, or Army endorsement.
Read the story →A taxonomy of the drone-mothership concept across air, sea, and ground domains — from robotic combat vehicles and containerized launchers to submarine tenders — and why range-stacking and cost asymmetry are reshaping every branch of warfare.
A verified cost ladder across drone classes, from $500 FPV strike drones to a $618 million MQ-4C Triton, showing why unit cost, all-up-round cost, and program cost are not the same number.
From Air Force officers flying MQ-9 Reapers to Army 15Ws at Fort Huachuca to squad-level FPV familiarization, a look at how the U.S. military actually trains drone operators, and how South Korea and Ukraine compare.
A side-by-side comparison of the five ways drones are actually defeated today — kinetic interceptors, RF/GPS jamming, high-power microwave, directed-energy lasers, and net-capture systems — with range, cost per engagement, tradeoffs, and who's legally allowed to use each under SAFER SKIES.
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.
U.S. Green Berets used a Ukrainian-built Magura drone boat to sink a target vessel during Balikatan 2026, marking the first Indo-Pacific deployment of battle-tested Ukrainian naval-drone technology.
Oregon Army National Guard engineers flew a Lorica 'Mule 28' heavy-lift drone to carry, place, and detonate a live M1A3 Bangalore torpedo through concertina wire at Idaho's Orchard Combat Training Center, keeping soldiers out of a breach's deadliest phase.
Fresh Eurosatory 2026 coverage shows the counter-UAS market converging on layered effectors: Esh-Tech's ~4kW DroneLight pulsed laser, Ecliptic's ANTIGONI microwave weapon, and a Lacroix/Bertin/MC2 passive-RF-plus-optical vehicle system — the same architecture the U.S. Army is buying through its expanding C-UAS Marketplace.
The Naval Research Laboratory demonstrated a dual-use laser that wirelessly beams power to a forward base, switches to shoot down a drone in near-whiteout snow, then resumes power delivery without restarting — a field test built to gather real atmospheric-degradation data.
Picatinny Arsenal has demonstrated SWAT-FC, autonomous fire-control software integrated with the CROWS weapon station that allows vehicle-mounted systems to engage and destroy small drones while both platform and target are in motion — eliminating the halt requirement that has long plagued vehicle-based counter-UAS.
During Exercise Salaknib 2026, U.S. Army unmanned surface vessels autonomously screened a logistics ship carrying Philippine Army armor across Casiguran Sound — the service's most visible maritime drone demonstration in the Indo-Pacific to date.
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