BAE turned the T-150 cargo drone into an APKWS-armed interceptor

Ukraine's drone spending is up more than 300% from 2025

Ideal Aerosmith debuted the Troublemaker Group 3 one-way attack drone

SRC won a $37M OTA for Ghost Mantis Gen 3 missile-warning apertures

The Army's McAlester plant will load drone warheads for Perennial Autonomy

ASTRO America signed a $9M CRADA to 3D print Gray Wolf missile parts

Raytheon swapped the Coyote Block 2 turbojet for a solid rocket motor

Heaviside unveiled TYR, a 5-pound loitering munition with 4 Nammo warheads

Twenty-Six Defense debuted Primex, a night-vision and AR head-borne system

Sikorsky packed 4 Nomad 100s into one 20-foot shipping container

BAE Systems unveiled MDACS and HPM layered air and drone defenses

Havoc AI won an SBIR Phase III from the Army Applications Laboratory

Echodyne & ACS signed a C-UAS deal pairing EchoShield with Bullfrog

Air won a $200M, 5-year deal for Army Next Gen Command and Control

Raytheon was awarded $729M in LIDS work for the US, Qatar and Jordan

TENCORE & Dominion Dynamics will build TerMIT UGVs in Canada

Mitsubishi Heavy launched Shogei, Japan's 7th Taigei-class submarine

ASELSAN killed a target drone with its GOKALP E1 hit-to-kill interceptor

The Navy will pay Boeing to redesign the Super Hornet's stores processor

The Army revived its night court audit, realigning over $100M in S&T

Uvision & Wayland put the IRIS payload into the Tactical CORTEX layer

KAI flew an FA-50 in formation with its AAP jet drone for 20 minutes

AZAK became the 7th vendor in the Army's ILTM ground-robot competition

Kongsberg is investing $51M in a Polish counter-drone plant near Gdansk

Kraus Hamdani made the K1000ULE award-ready on Army DevX Autonomy

Leonardo DRS won a $500M IDIQ slot for JIATF-401 counter-drone radar

Uvision showed a multi-canister launcher holding eight HERO 120s

Kratos flight-tested its TDI-J85 turbojet in 3 launch configurations

The Army launches Project Gatekeeper to AI-vet vendor code

Raytheon won an $8B IDIQ ceiling to restart strategic comms terminals

8 more nations joined the Army's drone marketplace, now 29 allies strong

AV & Elsight are putting Halo multi-link connectivity into the Mayhem 10

Lithuania received its first Switchblade 600s from AV

AV & Alpha signed an MOU to sustain the JUMP 20 in Spain

Northrop Grumman won $21M for 2 vehicle-mounted IBCS command shelters

DIU opened a $40M Sprint 2 for armed drone-killing uncrewed vessels

Germany dropped plans to buy Boeing’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone

WingXpand unveiled xPAIR, one autonomy stack for air, ground and sea craft

Saab rolled out Sweden's first GlobalEye

Johns Hopkins APL won a $499.8M DARPA IDIQ ceiling running to 2031

Turkish Aerospace opened a 2nd Anka 3 production line for a bigger variant

Striveworks' Pentagon AI enterprise contract grew to $700M, up from $70M

Starfighters Space will captive-carry Starlaunch 1 on an F-104 by end of year

SkyFall handed its StarGate medevac drone to a Ukrainian combat brigade

Red Cat unveiled TRICHON, a hand-launched VTOL long-endurance ISR drone

Spain, Germany & Belgium are working on tanker refueling of drones

Helsing is in talks to invest in Destinus at a $6.7B valuation

Destinus acquired Perciv AI to bring AI radar perception in-house

Unusual Machines closed its Upgrade Energy aquisition

Drove Aeropower emerged from stealth as a new defense tech startup

Red Cat proposed to buy Steyr Motors

Wildcat Equity Partners launched Wildcat Defense to buy US industrial base firms

WildField Ventures launched a $15M fund for Ukrainian dual-use startups

Redwire won $13.8M in orders for Stalker UAS from the National Guard

Boeing won an $80M Navy IDIQ for MQ-25A upgrades and sustainment

The Air Force had an F-22 take control of a YFQ-44A Fury CCA in flight

The Air Force wants a GPU-based mission computer for 600+ F-16s

The Navy flew an MQ-25A from a ground station on the USS Reagan

NATO plans to buy 6 portable GPS jammers with an 11 km denial radius

Mountain Horse Solutions won a 2nd Army order for FD-1 drone interceptors

France ordered several hundred more MX-10 DAMOCLES attack drones

TTM Technologies is acquiring Ophir Optics

Maximus is acquiring Agile Defense

GA-ASI flew SNC's ESM payload on the Army's Gray Eagle ER

Gecko Robotics’ Navy contract ceiling jumped from $71M to $300M

Skyfly raised a $10M seed for its Axe eVTOL and Longbow cargo drone

Australia unveiled Ghost Shark payloads to lay 12 mines and launch Altius

L3Harris won an $876M Navy mod for Next Generation Jammer Low Band

High Lander hit $30M in total funding with a new EDGE Group investment

L3Harris opened a rocket plant that will a GMLRS motor every 9 minutes

The German Army received its first TEKEVER AR6 heavy-lift cargo drone

Apollyon Dynamics (India) unveiled a new jet-powered drone

Alaskan Command tested a new HF system that spots aircraft beyond radar range

The Army fired 3 XM1180 C-DAEM shells at a moving tank target

The Pentagon wants ketamine wafers as a battlefield medicine option

The Air Force raised Raytheon's StormBreaker support ceiling to $950M

Saab revealed a new large underwater drone

Vulcan was tapped by the Army to supply the drone motor magnets under SkyFoundry and is building a 1.1 million sq ft plant in North Carolina to support