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Policy & Regulation
Part 108's Clock Is Ticking: FAA's BVLOS Rule Hits Its 90-Day OIRA Deadline October 8
The FAA's long-awaited Part 108 drone rule has sat at White House regulatory review since July 10, with the standard 90-day window closing October 8 — while DoorDash, Zipline, Amazon and Joby all build ahead of a final text nobody has seen.
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Counter-UAS
SAFER SKIES Rule Puts Jamming and Takedown Powers Within Reach of 1,500 Local Agencies
A DOJ-DHS rule now in force lets state and local agencies certify to detect, and eventually disable, unauthorized drones — but as of publication only 61 officers across 46 agencies hold the harder mitigation credential.
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Defense & Combat
Russia Hits Nine Ukrainian Oblasts in a Single Night, Blacking Out Power From Kyiv to Kharkiv
A 161-drone barrage mixing Shaheds, jet-powered variants, Gerbera decoys and a loitering S8000 Banderol struck nine Ukrainian oblasts overnight September 11, knocking out power and hitting a chemical plant deep inside Russia in return.
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Defense & Combat
Iran Seizes Disabled Anduril Dive-LD Drone Sub at Strait of Hormuz
Iran's IRGC Navy captured a malfunctioning US Navy Anduril Dive-LD underwater drone at the Strait of Hormuz on September 8, hours after CENTCOM sank five IRGC tankers in an escalating maritime confrontation.
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Industry & Contracts
Mach Industries Doubles Valuation to $3.7B With Additional $600M Series C
Mach Industries added $600 million to its Series C on September 10, 2026, pushing the round to $900 million total and the company's valuation to $3.7 billion in just three months.
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Counter-UAS
V2X's Hellfire-Armed Tempest Buggy Heads to the Marine Corps for Drone Killing Duty
V2X has begun fielding its Hellfire-armed Tempest buggy to the Marine Corps under a $19 million, 10-vehicle contract, giving units a mobile, shoot-and-scoot answer to Class 2 and 3 drones.
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Policy & Regulation
Vatn Systems Moves to Expand Undersea Drone Deployment in the Taiwan Strait
US startup Vatn Systems is pushing to expand fielding of its S12 autonomous underwater vehicle in the Taiwan Strait, building on an August MOU with Taiwan's NCSIST to jointly develop AI-enabled command systems and field AUVs locally.
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Industry & Contracts
Echodyne Rides Europe's Counter-Drone Boom, Lands Kongsberg PROTECTOR Radar Deal
Seattle-area radar maker Echodyne is weighing a European production line as NATO's counter-drone spending surges, just as Norway's Kongsberg picks its MESA radar to give PROTECTOR remote weapon stations real-time drone tracking.
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Counter-UAS
Hanwha's 50kW Laser-Armed Tigon Vehicle Targets NATO's Eastern Flank Counter-Drone Market
Hanwha unveiled a prototype 50kW laser mounted on its Tigon 8x8 armored vehicle at MSPO 2026, targeting NATO's eastern flank with a $1.50-per-shot counter-drone weapon and 2027 serial production.
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Tech & Builds
WB Group's Warmate 30 Debuts as a 250km, GPS-Denied Jet Strike Drone Under Poland's Gladius 2
Polish manufacturer WB Group unveiled the jet-powered Warmate 30 at MSPO 2026, a Gladius 2 loitering strike drone claiming a 250km reach and GPS-denied guidance — a sharp break from the rotary and piston Warmate munitions that preceded it.
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Defense & Combat
China's Tailless WZ-X Stealth Drone Surfaces in Flight Trials at Xinjiang's 'Area 51'
New flight-test images from Malan Air Base confirm China is flying a 52-meter tailless flying-wing UAV dubbed WZ-X, a design analysts say points toward an unmanned stealth ISR/bomber platform on the scale of the CH-7.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment's Laser Weapon Lands Its First Foreign Buyer, Days After the Army's Production Deal
AeroVironment's LOCUST directed-energy counter-drone laser scored its first international sale, worth more than $50 million, barely a week after the US Army handed the company its first-ever production contract for a high-energy laser weapon.
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