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Three weeks into the joint US-Mexico Águila Alta counter-drone operation at the Tijuana border, Mexico has intercepted zero cartel drones while US forces have downed over 300 this year alone.
Read the story →A 20kW-class AeroVironment-derived laser mounted on a GM Defense combat vehicle has knocked down 11 cartel-linked drones in 10 days along the Rio Grande Valley, and NORTHCOM says overall drone activity there has fallen roughly 75% since it started firing.
A Wright-Patterson RFI for a transportable launcher that kills cruise missiles and Group 1-5 drones lands the same week the Air Force details new 20-Airman Point Defense Flights trained at Fort Sill — backed by $51.8M in FY26 SUADS buys and a $1.4B FY27 ABADS request.
From a 2014 Virginia startup to an ASX200-listed company with 4,000+ systems deployed in 70 nations, DroneShield has built the counter-UAS industry’s most comprehensive product line—and is now betting that software subscriptions, not hardware sales, define its next decade.
BVLOS operations at scale hinge on one unsolved problem: teaching drones to see and avoid other aircraft without a pilot's eyes. A look at the cooperative and non-cooperative sensing, competing standards, and hardware programs racing to close that gap.
Unlike battery-powered UAS that fly to a destination, tethered drones hover over one — drawing continuous ground power through a Kevlar-reinforced tether to deliver days of unbroken ISR, secure fiber-optic data, and jamming-immune comms relay that free-flying platforms simply cannot match.
Lattice is Anduril’s AI command-and-control platform fusing sensors, drones, and effectors into a unified operational picture. With over $25 billion in known contract ceilings and a $20B Army enterprise agreement, it’s becoming the connective tissue of U.S. autonomous warfare.
After a two-day live evaluation at MCAS Yuma announced June 7 with Joint Task Force-Southern Border and CBP, the Pentagon's consolidated C-UAS task force cleared CACI's SkyValor system for deployment at any U.S. military installation worldwide — not just the southern border.
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