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Defense & Combat
Collaborative Combat Aircraft Explained: Loyal Wingmen, Attritable Economics, and the Autonomy Problem
Collaborative Combat Aircraft are semi-autonomous armed platforms built to fly alongside crewed fighters, running strikes, EW, and ISR while the pilot sets objectives rather than flies the drone. From the USAF's competing YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A to Australia's Ghost Bat, here is the full picture.
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Industry & Contracts
Airbus and Kratos Unveil U740 Valkyrie at ILA Berlin, Targeting Luftwaffe Service by 2029
Airbus Defence and Space has teamed with Kratos to bring a Europeanized XQ-58A Valkyrie to ILA Berlin as the U740, targeting German Luftwaffe operational use by 2029 — alongside a reveal of the all-European Ravenstorm UCCA concept aimed at the early 2030s.
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Industry & Contracts
Alta Ares Closes €50M, Then Lands Airbus Partnership 48 Hours Later
The two-year-old French counter-drone startup secured a €50M round on June 9, then signed an MoU with Airbus Defence and Space at ILA Berlin on June 11 — giving its Ukraine-tested interceptors a direct path into NATO battle-management networks.
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Counter-UAS
JIATF-401 Validates CACI SkyValor for Joint-Force-Wide Deployment After Yuma Border Testing
After a two-day live evaluation at MCAS Yuma announced June 7 with Joint Task Force-Southern Border and CBP, the Pentagon's consolidated C-UAS task force cleared CACI's SkyValor system for deployment at any U.S. military installation worldwide — not just the southern border.
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Policy & Regulation
China Closes the E-Commerce Loophole on Drone Component Exports
Beijing's new customs declarations — Announcements No. 77 and No. 78, effective June 30 — don't expand the controlled-items list. They demand paper trails that make it impossible to move drone components through platform intermediaries without explicit disclosure of every party in the chain.
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Tech & Builds
Helsing's CA-1EA: An EW-First Combat Drone Built Around the Jammer
At ILA Berlin 2026, Helsing unveiled the CA-1EA, a collaborative combat aircraft designed from the outset as an electronic-attack platform — jamming and radar suppression as the primary payload, not an afterthought. IOC is targeted for 2031, though the airframe has yet to fly.
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Defense & Combat
Iran Hits Three US Bases in One Night as Ceasefire Talks Near Collapse
An overnight IRGC salvo targeted Navy Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain, the F-35 base in Jordan, and positions in Kuwait simultaneously — CENTCOM responded with three waves against ~20 Iranian targets even as Qatari mediators were hours from a deal.
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Policy & Regulation
The Layer Import Bans Can't Reach: Congress Targets Drone Magnet Supply Chain
A bipartisan House bill introduced June 10 pairs tiered production credits with an OEM demand-side incentive to pull rare-earth permanent magnet manufacturing out of China's grip — reaching the one chokepoint that banning Chinese drones outright cannot fix.
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Commercial & Delivery
Matternet Goes Public: The First Pure-Play Drone Delivery Stock
Matternet completed a reverse merger in late May and closed a $33M oversubscribed placement, becoming the first publicly traded pure-play drone delivery company — a structural first that finally lets investors own the sector directly, not as a footnote inside Amazon or Alphabet.
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Defense & Combat
Rooftop SAMs and Seven New Towers: Moscow's Pantsir-SMD-E Drone Cordon
Russia is mounting missile-only Pantsir-SMD-E systems on civilian high-rises and has built seven new dedicated air-defense towers around Moscow — a visible admission that Ukraine's drone campaign has punched through every previous layer of homeland defense.
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Defense & Combat
Autonomous Drone Boat Pulls Two Apache Pilots from the Sea Near the Strait of Hormuz
A Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessel operated by Navy Task Force 59 located and recovered two downed U.S. Army Apache pilots within roughly two hours of their crash near the Strait of Hormuz on June 8 — the first confirmed use of an autonomous boat to retrieve military aircrew in real-world operations.
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Policy & Regulation
Is DJI Banned in the U.S.? A Precise Map of Six Overlapping Restrictions
"DJI is banned" is both true and false depending on which of six distinct legal instruments you mean. This explainer maps each layer — export controls, federal procurement, the DoD blacklist, the FCC Covered List, state laws, and the BVLOS draft rule — with its exact scope and status as of June 2026.
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