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Counter-UAS
Echodyne Bets Big on the Counter-Drone Boom With a $40M Radar Plant
Echodyne is opening a $40M plant near Seattle in July to build at least 30,000 counter-UAS radars a year — a roughly five-fold jump — because orders are outrunning production across the counter-drone market.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's 'Sea Baby' Becomes a Drone Mothership — Launching FPV Swarms and Torpedoing a Russian Submarine
Ukraine's SBU-run Sea Baby has evolved from a one-way explosive boat into a mobile launch platform carrying 6–8 FPV drones and thermobaric Shmel rockets — while a companion 'Sub Sea Baby' struck the docked Kilo-class submarine B-271 Kolpino in what analysts call the first uncrewed underwater attack on a submarine.
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Policy & Regulation
Fourth Strike in Four Days: A Drone Hits a JetBlue Jet Over JFK as U.S. Airports Still Have No Legal Way to Stop It
A drone struck JetBlue Flight 948 above the cockpit at ~3,000 feet on approach to JFK on June 29 — the fourth NYC-area drone incident in four days — exposing that civil airports and local police still have no legal authority to detect or interdict drones in real time.
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Counter-UAS
A Prohibited Zone Goes Live-Fire Ready: Secret Service Counter-Drone Teams Guard the Mall's First-Ever NSSE July 4
For America 250, the National Mall fireworks earned National Special Security Event status for the first time — putting Secret Service counter-drone teams, the FBI, and the National Guard over 150,000 people inside an airspace that has been off-limits for half a century.
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Defense & Combat
Soldiers Stay Under Cover: Oregon Guard Flies a Heavy-Lift Drone to Breach Wire With a WWII-Era Bangalore Torpedo
Oregon Army National Guard engineers flew a Lorica 'Mule 28' heavy-lift drone to carry, place, and detonate a live M1A3 Bangalore torpedo through concertina wire at Idaho's Orchard Combat Training Center, keeping soldiers out of a breach's deadliest phase.
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Tech & Builds
Every Soldier a Drone Operator: South Korea Vows 500,000 'Drone Warriors' and Its First Counter-Drone Standard
South Korea will train 500,000 'drone warriors,' field ~60,000 domestic UAVs by 2029, add 20,000+ expendable drones by 2030, and has issued KS W 8100, its first national counter-drone testing standard.
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Commercial & Delivery
Grubhub's Parent Bets on the Sky: Wonder Plans Texas Drone Delivery as Walmart-Wing's Network Nears 20 Markets
Wonder, the food-hall operator that owns Grubhub, will launch drone food delivery in Dallas in January 2027 — entering a commercial market where Walmart and Wing are pushing toward 20 U.S. metros and Zipline has cleared 2 million deliveries.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment's Q4 Blowout: A $642M Quarter, a $1.2B Backlog, and the 'Drone Supercycle' Goes Mainstream
AeroVironment crushed estimates with a record $641.6M fiscal Q4, doubled annual revenue to nearly $2B, and grew funded backlog to $1.2B — sending shares up ~19% and turning 'drone supercycle' talk into public-market fact.
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Counter-UAS
'Airspace Under Pressure': DroneShield Survey Finds 70% of Operators Can't Reliably Detect Drones — and 60% Can't Legally Stop Them
A DroneShield survey of 23 airport and critical-infrastructure operators finds 70% cite detection gaps and 60% lack the legal authority to mitigate drone threats — quantifying the two failures behind Gatwick-style shutdowns.
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Commercial & Delivery
FPV Goes Primetime: F1 Puts a 350 km/h Chase Drone at the Center of Its Austrian GP Broadcast
At the June 28, 2026 Austrian GP, Formula 1 aired FPV drone footage as a headline broadcast camera, tracking a Hamilton-Verstappen fight at speeds reported above 350 km/h — the sport's most prominent FPV deployment yet, and a marker of the regulatory ceiling that still bounds the technology.
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Defense & Combat
Putin Admits a Fuel 'Deficit' as Ukrainian Drones Hit Two Refineries in One Night
Ukrainian long-range drones struck refineries in Krasnodar and Yaroslavl on the night of June 28, 2026, as Putin acknowledged a fuel 'deficit' for the first time amid a June campaign of roughly 28 strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.
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Industry & Contracts
The Drone-Stock Supercycle: Pentagon Weighs Equity Stakes as DAWG Budget Balloons to $54.6B
U.S. drone stocks extended a sharp run in late June 2026 on reports the Pentagon is weighing equity stakes in domestic makers — the backdrop being a $54.6B FY27 request for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, up from a $225M base.
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