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Defense & Combat
Pentagon Opens Drone Dominance Phase 3: $450M for 60,000 Attack Drones and a 400-Drone Gate
Phase 3 of the Drone Dominance Program offers $450M for about 60,000 one-way attack drones, with new price points and a 400-drone production order as the price of entry to Gauntlet III. The listed prices cover at most $300M of the total.
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Tech & Builds
Fedorov's 'Army of Robots' Sets a Six-Month Deadline for a Humanoid Combat Result
Ukraine's dismissed defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, launched an 'Army of Robots' in Lviv, promising a humanoid-like robot battlefield result in six months and a no-infantry assault in a year, though most designs shown are still concept art.
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Policy & Regulation
Tallahassee Commissioner Wants Amazon Drone Rules. Florida Statute 330.41 Says the City Can't Write Them
A Tallahassee commissioner says Amazon drone delivery "needs to be regulated," but Florida Statute 330.41 bars cities from writing drone-operation rules or blocking drone ports, leaving only setbacks, landscaping and general nuisance law.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon Told Pflugerville Its Drones Take No Images. Its Own Operations Page Says They May Record You
Amazon told Pflugerville's council its MK30 drones can't "take pictures or images," but Prime Air's own operations page says cameras may record people, pets and cars near delivery points and that images help improve Amazon services.
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Tech & Builds
Inside a Downed Geran-4: A $25,000 Model-Aircraft Turbojet, Chinese Mesh Modems and Texas Instruments Chips
A teardown of a nearly intact jet-powered Geran-4 shows Russia's newest Shahed variant leans on a Chinese TJ-2000-class turbojet, a Chinese mesh modem and Texas Instruments parts, with the engine the hardest piece to replace.
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Policy & Regulation
Federal Judge Finds Lodi's Town-Wide Drone Ban Preempted, but Pro Se Pilot Gets No Restraining Order
A New Jersey federal judge held Lodi's ban on drones below 400 feet is both field- and conflict-preempted by federal law, denying the borough's motion to dismiss while refusing the pro se pilot's TRO because enforcement isn't imminent.
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Counter-UAS
Milrem Pitches an Unmanned Defence Line for NATO's Eastern Flank, With Counter-UAS at Its Core
Milrem Robotics wants robots to hold NATO's eastern border: a proposed 3,500 km unmanned defence line from Finland to Poland, built around UGVs, ARCOS command software and counter-UAS. It is a proposal and demonstrator, not a contracted program.
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Defense & Combat
Task Force Falcon Strike Gains Its First Named Member: Bahrain Commits as CENTCOM Builds a Multinational One-Way Attack Drone Force
Bahrain is the first country publicly tied to CENTCOM's Task Force Falcon Strike, the multinational one-way attack drone force announced in August, after a Sept. 23-24 military committee meeting in Manama.
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Commercial & Delivery
Connecticut Has Until Oct. 1 to Weigh In on Amazon's 1,000-Flights-a-Day North Haven Drone Hub, and the FAA Has Posted No Environmental Document
Connecticut DEEP's 15-day comment window on Amazon's proposed North Haven Prime Air hub closes Oct. 1, with an answer due to the FAA Oct. 16, while the FAA's drone NEPA index lists no Connecticut document.
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Tech & Builds
DHS's Own Lab Grounded 3 of 5 Blue UAS in Manhattan. Here Is What the NUSTL Report Actually Says
A DHS lab's Blue UAS comparative assessment found three of five approved drones could not hold position at Hudson Yards, with link losses 50 feet from launch. Skydio's X10D scored highest, and Chinese drone results were withheld.
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Policy & Regulation
Fifteen States and Harris County Ask the Second Circuit to Throw Out the FAA's Nationwide Drone-Delivery Environmental Clearance
New York AG Letitia James filed a Second Circuit petition for 15 states and Harris County, Texas, seeking to set aside the FAA's July 28 national environmental review for Part 135 drone package delivery, the first court challenge to the agency's NEPA shortcut.
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Industry & Contracts
Matternet Unveils M3 With an 11-Pound Payload, but the FAA Certificate That Took the M2 22 Months Doesn't Exist Yet
Matternet's new M3 carries 11 lb over a 10-mile radius and targets commercial service in 2H 2027, but no FAA airworthiness criteria for it have been published, and the M2's took 22 months from proposal to final.
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