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Policy & Regulation
FAA Breaks Ground on V-PAR, Its First Dedicated eVTOL Test Range, to Solve the Vertiport Integration Problem
The FAA broke ground June 26, 2026 on V-PAR, an ~$8.3M Oklahoma City test range purpose-built to study how eVTOL aircraft fold into the National Airspace System — wake, downwash, RF interference and vertiport procedures.
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Commercial & Delivery
Skyways Bets on Offshore: An Austin Operator Scales Heavy-Lift Cargo Drones Ahead of Part 108
Austin's Skyways Aviation is scaling its offshore heavy-lift drone fleet — a 1,000-mile dual-fuel VTOL already serving oil majors, ANA and DSV — as it positions for the FAA's forthcoming Part 108 BVLOS rule.
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Counter-UAS
Lithuania's Granta Autonomy Unveils 'Black Wasp,' a 320 km/h AI Interceptor Built to Hunt Shaheds
Granta Autonomy's Black Wasp is a 4 kg, 320 km/h AI-guided interceptor built to chase and kill Shahed-136s and other strike drones, using jamming-resilient ML navigation and onboard computer vision cued by NATO air-defense radar.
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Tech & Builds
Montevideo Wires Gunshot Detection Straight Into Autonomous Drones — a Drone-as-First-Responder First for Latin America
FlytBase and Uruguay's Interior Ministry went live June 24 with what's billed as Latin America's first city-scale system linking a ShotSpotter gunshot network directly to autonomous drones — gunfire auto-launches a docked drone that streams live video to a command center within minutes, no pilot in the loop.
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Defense & Combat
Ukrainian Drones Knock Russia's Fourth-Largest Refinery Offline as Fuel Crisis Spreads
A June 24 Ukrainian drone strike forced Russia's NORSI refinery in Kstovo offline, damaging its primary CDU-5 crude unit as fuel-sales restrictions spread across Russian regions.
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Industry & Contracts
Unusual Machines Stands Up an Orlando Battery Plant Before Its Upgrade Energy Deal Even Closes
Unusual Machines signed a lease for ~14,000 sq ft of Orlando manufacturing space to scale domestic drone-battery output, moving ahead of the mid-Q3 close of its ~$52M Upgrade Energy acquisition.
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Commercial & Delivery
Utilities Are Ditching DJI for Storm Response — and the Real BVLOS Bottleneck Turns Out to Be Data, Not Rules
At InnovateEnergy Week in Texas, UAS leads from Southern Company and Entergy described moving off DJI onto Blue UAS-vetted American drones — and warned that the binding constraint on scaling storm-response flights is data management, not the FAA's pending Part 108 BVLOS rule.
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Industry & Contracts
Defense-Tech VC Blows Past Its Own Records: $14.6B in Five Months, and Drones Are Eating the Check
Venture funding into defense and national-security startups hit $14.6B in the first five months of 2026, already crushing 2025's full-year record of $9.6B, as drone and autonomy megarounds from Anduril, Shield AI and Saronic dominate the flow.
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Counter-UAS
DroneShield Builds Its First Counter-Drone System in Europe as the Sovereignty Race Accelerates
DroneShield says it has completed its first counter-UAS system built in Europe rather than Australia, using contract manufacturing and a primarily European supply chain to chase the EU's growing demand for sovereign C-UAS capability.
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Tech & Builds
Indra Floats Electronic Warfare 100 Meters Up: A Tethered-Drone EW Node for the Eastern-Front Era
Spain's Indra Group debuted a tethered quadcopter at Eurosatory that lifts electronic-warfare sensors more than 100 meters off a 4x4, extending detection of enemy comms and drone links by tens of kilometers — a design shaped by Ukraine-war lessons.
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Policy & Regulation
NATO and EU Race to Close the Eastern Flank's Drone Gaps as Russian Incursions Surge
Renew Europe says NATO has agreed to accelerate counter-drone initiatives ahead of an Ankara summit, pressing for real detection-to-neutralization capability along the Arctic-to-Black Sea flank as Romania logs most of its wartime drone incursions in 2026 alone.
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Policy & Regulation
FAA Cracks the Door Open: How Part 107/135 Operators Can Get Authorized to Fly Inside World Cup 'No Drone Zones'
The FAA's June 22 NOTAM update confirms certain drone operations may be permitted inside World Cup security airspace with DHS authorization — giving Part 107 and 135 operators a concrete approval path via [email protected] amid $100,000 fines and the new DETER enforcement push.
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