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Industry & Contracts
Quantum Systems Raises $1.2 Billion in Europe's Largest-Ever Defense-Tech Financing
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.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Magura Naval Drone Sinks a Target Ship in the Philippines — Its First Indo-Pacific Combat Debut
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.
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Defense & Combat
Soldiers Stay Under Cover: Oregon Guard Flies a Heavy-Lift Drone to Breach Wire With a WWII-Era Bangalore Torpedo
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.
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Counter-UAS
Eurosatory's Counter-Drone Effector Wave: A 4kW Pulsed Laser, a Microwave Gun, and a Passive-RF 'Cocktail' Built to Kill the FPV Threat
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.
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Tech & Builds
One Laser, Two Jobs: Navy Lab Beams Power to a Forward Base, Then Kills a Drone in a Whiteout
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.
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Counter-UAS
Army's SWAT-FC Software Lets Moving Vehicles Kill Drones in Live-Fire Test
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.
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Defense & Combat
Army Deploys Autonomous USV Swarm to Escort Logistics Vessel in Philippine Waters
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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Counter-UAS
Netherlands Signs Letter of Intent to Join US Army C-UAS Marketplace at Eurosatory 2026
The Netherlands signed a letter of intent to join the US Army's UAS and Counter-UAS Marketplace Initiative at Eurosatory in Paris, one of nine nations to do so at the June 16 signing ceremony, gaining a path toward access to a validated, interoperable pool of drone and counter-drone systems managed by Joint Interagency Task Force 401.
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Tech & Builds
Optionally Piloted Aircraft: The Platform That Bridges Crewed and Autonomous Flight
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.
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Tech & Builds
Zephyr S: Inside the Solar Stratospheric Drone That Stayed Aloft for 64 Days
Airbus's Zephyr S occupies the stratosphere at 70,000 feet, loitering for months with ISR and 5G connectivity payloads on power equivalent to a single light bulb. Here's how the platform works, what the 2022 Army record flight proved, and where the newly spun-out AALTO HAPS company is taking it.
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Defense & Combat
Loitering Munition, Cruise Missile, One-Way Attack Drone: What's the Difference?
Loitering munitions, cruise missiles, and one-way attack drones are routinely conflated in defense reporting. The distinctions -- in target acquisition timing, terminal human control, cost, and payload -- determine which arms control regimes apply and how international humanitarian law governs each weapon's use.
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Defense & Combat
Raytheon Coyote Explained: The Army's Counter-Drone Interceptor and Its Cost Problem
The Raytheon Coyote began in 2014 as a disposable ISR drone. It is now the U.S. Army's primary counter-drone interceptor — fielded in kinetic and non-kinetic variants under a $5 billion contract — and caught in an unresolved cost-exchange equation that defines modern C-UAS.
