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Defense & Combat
Navy Wants a Family of Carrier-Based Drones That Can Do Everything From Strikes to Aerial Refueling
A July 14 Navy RFI seeks a modular "Air Wing of the Future" family of carrier-based drones spanning eight missions, from strike and air-to-air combat to refueling and resupply, with responses due Aug. 13.
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Counter-UAS
Japan's Terra Drone Teams With UAE Defense Prime EDGE Group to Build Cheap Drone Interceptors
Terra Drone's Terra Inspectioneering signed a July 7 MoU with EDGE Group subsidiary IGG to push the Terra A1 interceptor as a low-cost counter to Shahed-type attack drones, betting on months-long design cycles over traditional missile-based defenses.
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Industry & Contracts
Sam Altman-Backed Brinc Raises $125M to Put a 911 Response Drone on 80,000 Police and Fire Roofs
Motorola Solutions led a $125M round for public-safety drone maker Brinc on July 14, 2026, nearly doubling its valuation as a December 2025 FCC ruling froze DJI out of the U.S. market it's racing to capture.
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Policy & Regulation
The FCC Is About to Make DJI Impossible to Buy on Amazon — and Every Wireless Gadget Harder to Fake
The FCC votes July 22, 2026 on a Third Report and Order requiring marketplaces like Amazon to show FCC IDs at checkout and closing a "logic-bearing hardware" loophole that let Covered List components, including DJI's, back into U.S. commerce.
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Counter-UAS
The Pentagon's New Rulebook Says Drones Aren't a 'Silver Bullet' — Inside JIATF-401's C-UAS Handbook
JIATF-401's new handbook trades shoot-first instincts for a 'Four Ps, Five Ds' framework, backed by Shahed and FPV casualty data showing why kinetic-only counter-drone thinking fails.
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Defense & Combat
Sea, Land, and Air: Ukraine Pulls Off the First Fully Unmanned Amphibious Assault at Kinburn Spit
Ukraine's 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade landed an armed robotic boat-ferried machine-gun UGV on Russian-held Kinburn Spit under drone watch on July 13, 2026 — with zero humans in any domain, what analysts call the first fully unmanned combined-domain amphibious raid in history.
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Commercial & Delivery
A Rogue Drone Just Grounded an Entire Aerial Firefighting Fleet on an 18,800-Hectare BC Blaze
An unauthorized drone near the Brunswick Complex wildfire forced BC Wildfire Service to halt all air tankers and helicopters on an 18,859-hectare blaze — the latest hobbyist incursion to shut down contracted firefighting aviation exactly when it's needed most.
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Policy & Regulation
Can You Legally Shoot Down a Drone Over Your Property? What the Case Law Actually Says
The Kentucky 'drone slayer' case never settled the law, and two 2024 Florida prosecutions show real consequences. Here's what the case law and stalled state bills actually say about shooting down a drone.
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Defense & Combat
Drone Motherships Explained: Air, Sea, and Ground Launch Platforms Compared
A taxonomy of the drone-mothership concept across air, sea, and ground domains — from robotic combat vehicles and containerized launchers to submarine tenders — and why range-stacking and cost asymmetry are reshaping every branch of warfare.
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Defense & Combat
What Military Drones Actually Cost, Platform by Platform
A verified cost ladder across drone classes, from $500 FPV strike drones to a $618 million MQ-4C Triton, showing why unit cost, all-up-round cost, and program cost are not the same number.
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Defense & Combat
How Military Drone Pilots Are Trained: Inside the UAS Pipeline
From Air Force officers flying MQ-9 Reapers to Army 15Ws at Fort Huachuca to squad-level FPV familiarization, a look at how the U.S. military actually trains drone operators, and how South Korea and Ukraine compare.
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Tech & Builds
How the Military Is Solving GPS Jamming Now That R-GPS Is Dead
The Space Force killed its Resilient GPS anti-jam satellite program in January 2026. Here's why it died, what M-code, GPS IIIF and CRPA anti-jam antennas are doing instead, and why the timing is brutal given jamming in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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