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A thrust-vectoring nozzle that last flew on an F-16 testbed in the 1990s has been refurbished, mated to GE's F110-GE-129E and lit off at Peebles, Ohio — the hardware Shield AI's tail-sitting X-BAT fighter needs to hover on engine thrust, with prototype flight tests slated for later in 2026.
Read the story →Roughly 115 teams converge on the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force this week to chase DARPA's $6.5 million prize for a sub-55-pound VTOL aircraft that can lift a 110-pound payload — as one finalist, Jetoptera, walks away over new safety rules.
More than 120 teams descended on Wright-Patterson AFB this week to chase $6.5 million in DARPA prize money for a sub-55-pound drone that can haul four times its own weight.
Seasats says its 12-foot Lightfish USV tracked a Chinese Type 052D destroyer to within a few hundred meters off Luzon on June 15, a Reuters-verified encounter that puts cheap autonomous sea drones on a collision course with contested Indo-Pacific waters.
The Office of Naval Research's new 2026 S&T Strategy, 'FEED at Speed,' leans on AI to compress research timelines and targets the technology-transition 'Valley of Death' — with unmanned systems like the MDUSV Seahawk held up as the model capability.
At the U.S. Navy's Lanternfish 2026 exercise, Ultra Maritime's Sea Spear sonar fed Anduril's Seabed Sentry and Lattice software to detect, track and classify enemy UUVs and alert operators with no human in the sensing loop.
At Unmanned Valley in the Netherlands, four university teams flew multi-drone systems through an indoor-outdoor disaster zone with satellite positioning switched off — the third and final round of NATO's SAPIENCE competition, won by City St George's, University of London.
The US Marine Corps has selected Allen Control Systems' Bullfrog M240 — an AI-driven turret that auto-aims a belt-fed machine gun at drones — for its air-defense mission on the L-MADIS vehicle, promising kills as cheap as $10.
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.
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.
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.
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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