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Commercial & Delivery
Matternet Adds Beeline UAS to Its Part 135 Network, Betting on Operators Instead of Owning Every Route
Matternet has added Beeline UAS to its FAA Part 135 drone-delivery operator network, letting Beeline fly Matternet's platform under its own air-carrier certificate across new U.S. markets -- a franchise-style scaling model rather than Matternet operating every route itself.
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Tech & Builds
Operation Firecrest: How the Royal Navy Grew a New Heavy-Lift Drone Trick in the High North
Aboard HMS Prince of Wales during Operation Firecrest, the Royal Navy's 700X Naval Air Squadron gave the Malloy T-150B a 15 m drop-down cable to deliver 60 kg loads ship-to-ship without landing, and flew its first drone-based search-and-rescue role dropping life-rafts.
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Defense & Combat
China's Type 076 'Sichuan' Becomes the World's First Amphibious Assault Ship to Catapult-Launch Combat Drones
New close-up footage of China's first Type 076, Sichuan, confirms an electromagnetic catapult and arresting gear tuned for fixed-wing UAVs — a drone-carrier capability no U.S. or NATO amphibious ship currently fields.
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Industry & Contracts
UK Christens 'Storm Fighter' Autonomous Drone-Wingman Program in GBP300M CCA Push
The RAF has named its Collaborative Combat Aircraft effort 'Storm Fighter,' unveiling Storm Chrome and Storm Fire drone designs and backing the family with GBP300M inside a GBP298B Defence Investment Plan.
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Commercial & Delivery
275 Nautical Miles on Electrons: An Organ Crosses State Lines Aboard an eVTOL in the FAA's First eIPP Flights
BETA Technologies flew an animal organ roughly 275 nautical miles from Virginia to Baltimore in the FAA's first eIPP operational flights — but it took two ALIA aircraft and a mid-route handoff, and that relay says more about electric aviation's real constraint than any press release will.
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Policy & Regulation
The BVLOS Rule Is at the White House — and Nobody Agrees on Which Rule It Is
The FAA's Part 108 BVLOS rule reached OIRA on July 10, 2026, and trade press called it a proposed rule moving forward. The live review record says otherwise: Stage — Final Rule. The difference is roughly a year of your operating plans.
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Tech & Builds
Seeing for the Pilot Who Isn't There: Ground-Based Optical Radar Takes Aim at the BVLOS Bottleneck
High Lander and Thirdeye are moving detect-and-avoid off the airframe and onto the ground — a passive optical radar feeding a live national UTM, tested against helicopters approaching out of the sun, and aimed squarely at the non-cooperative-traffic clause holding up Part 108.
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Defense & Combat
Two Drones a Day: Ukraine Codified 413 New UAS in Six Months — and Nearly 90% Are Homemade
Ukraine's Defence Ministry says it codified 413 new unmanned aerial systems in the first half of 2026 — more than two a day, up 30% on 2025 — with copter strike drones and jam-immune fiber-optic systems leading the mix.
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Counter-UAS
Railgun Logic for the Drone Age: The Army Is Testing Whether Electricity Can Undercut the $1M Interceptor
Auriga Space and Army DEVCOM AC signed a three-year CRADA to study electromagnetic launch as a cheap, high-cadence counter-drone effector — but a CRADA is a data-sharing deal, explicitly not a contract award, procurement decision, or Army endorsement.
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Tech & Builds
Dassault and Harmattan AI Fly Rafale-Controlled Drone Carrying New Radar-Hunting Payload
A Rafale F4 controlled a drone carrying Dassault and Harmattan AI's new NAMIB electronic-warfare payload, which geolocated a radar dozens of kilometers away and cued a simulated strike -- an early proof point for human-machine teaming on SEAD missions.
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Industry & Contracts
Elbit Pitches Turning Commercial Cargo Ships Into Floating Drone Carriers
Elbit Systems is marketing a concept to convert commercial vessels into floating drone bases carrying 9-12 Hermes 650 Spark aircraft, offering countries like Japan, Denmark and Germany a cheaper alternative to aircraft carriers for maritime surveillance.
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Policy & Regulation
EU and Ukraine Sign 'Drone Deal,' Release €1 Billion to Scale Up Joint Drone Production
Von der Leyen and Zelenskyy signed the first EU-wide Drone Deal in Kyiv on July 15, unlocking €1 billion in fresh funding and 19 founding companies to fuse Ukrainian battlefield know-how with European industrial capacity.
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