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Defense & Combat
Shotguns Go to War Against FPV Drones as Ammo Makers Race to Arm Dismounted Troops
A new Janes special report details how ammunition makers are fielding tungsten-shot 12-gauge rounds and other counter-UAV cartridges as militaries scramble to give infantry a fighting chance against kamikaze FPV drones.
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Defense & Combat
China's Ground Force Quietly Fields Its First Armed Reconnaissance Drone, the KVD002
Janes reports China's PLA Ground Force has operationalized the CASC-built KVD002 unmanned combat aircraft, with state media footage showing 13 airframes and a live-fire strike on a naval target.
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Industry & Contracts
19 Drone Makers, One Fort Carson Proving Ground: Inside the Pentagon's $300M Gauntlet II Shootout
Nineteen finalists are trucking 120 attack drones apiece to Fort Carson this August, the live-fire elimination round of a $1.1B Pentagon program racing toward a 200,000-drone fleet by 2027.
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Commercial & Delivery
A Drone Beat an Ambulance by Five Minutes: Virginia's First AED-Delivery Drone Pilot Goes Live
James City County, Virginia launched the state's first real-world AED-delivery drone pilot on August 1, 2026, with test flights showing a 2:30 drone delivery time versus an 8:06 average fire department response.
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Counter-UAS
Inside 'Warden': How the Army's C5ISR Center Is Grading 17 Counter-Drone Vendors Against Real Swarms
The Army's DEVCOM C5ISR Center ran its first 'Warden' assessment at Fort A.P. Hill, pitting 17 vendors' lasers, jammers and interceptor drones against 12+ UAS types including swarms.
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Policy & Regulation
Wing's Bid to Fly Groceries Over Atlanta Clears a Key FAA Hurdle as Comment Window Closes
The FAA's 30-day comment period on Wing Aviation's Draft Environmental Assessment for expanded Atlanta-metro drone delivery closed August 1, 2026, moving the company a step closer to scaling beyond its six-store Walmart-anchored footprint.
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Counter-UAS
Washington National Guard Fields Anduril Counter-Drone System Ahead of Super Bowl, World Cup Security Missions
Washington's 10th Civil Support Team has completed training on a mobile Anduril counter-UAS rig that fuses camera, RF and AI sensors — and it's headed for Super Bowl and FIFA World Cup security duty.
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Tech & Builds
DARPA's $6.5M Lift Challenge Kicks Off in Dayton, Pitting 120+ Teams on Heavy-Lift Drone Design
More than 120 teams descended on Wright-Patterson AFB this week to chase $6.5 million in DARPA prize money for a sub-55-pound drone that can haul four times its own weight.
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Defense & Combat
F-Drones' Ukrainian F10 Quadcopter Enters US Service Under Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program
Ukrainian manufacturer F-Drones delivered the first 2,000 F10 FPV strike quadcopters to US forces on July 31, becoming the first Ukrainian drone cleared for export to the US under the Pentagon's $1 billion Drone Dominance Program.
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Industry & Contracts
Pentagon Commits Up to $820M to Performance Drone Works to Build Domestic Drone Component Supply Chain
The Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital signed a conditional loan of up to $820 million with Performance Drone Works on July 31, 2026, to mass-produce propulsion, power/control, and vision-system components for Group 1/2 drones industry-wide.
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Counter-UAS
CENTCOM's 'Heavy Wave' of Strikes Hits Iranian Drone and Missile Production Sites
CENTCOM says it struck dozens of IRGC targets — including drone and missile factories — in a two-hour "heavy wave" on July 29-30, retaliation for an Iranian ballistic-missile attack that was fully intercepted the night before.
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Policy & Regulation
FCC Extends Its Foreign-Drone 'Covered List' Playbook to Robots — A Preview for the UAS Market
The FCC added Chinese-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its national-security Covered List on July 28, using the same authorization-blocking mechanism it built for foreign drones — a signal for where UAS rules go next.
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