🔷 Saved Rounds 2.18.25

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They Said It
“you cannot defeat what you cannot see”

— General Gregory Guillot, commander of NORAD and NORTHCOM, speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the lack of sensing threats to the US homeland and a call for a new sensor layer from seabed to space.

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Maneuverability in space went from a very classified to the center of public discourse in the Space Force.

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In that Number

10,000th

Ukraine announced it’s destroyed the 10,000th Russian tank on the battlefield.

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Saved Rounds

• The UK’s covert Gravehawk missile-in-a-shipping-container system broke cover (uses Russian Archer missiles)

• Heven Drones unveiled a new hydrogen-powered long-range drone that can carry 50 pounds

• Helsing is partnering with Mistral (French OpenAI challenger) to develop LLMs for defense

• The UK started flight testing its MQ-9B Protectors (replacing its MQ-9A Reaper fleet)

• EDGE Group launched an aero engine company called POWERTECH

• CAE was tapped by Canada to develop the nation’s new fighter training program

• Primoco & UAV Navigation demonstrated autonomous teaming of drones

• York Space is expanding from satellite hardware to complete satellite solutions for the US government

• K2 Space raised $110m to scale satellite production

• Anduril is taking over the Army's $22B IVAS augmented reality program from Microsoft

• Sentrycs secured a multi-million-dollar counter-drone contract in Latin America

• Apex secured a $46m Space Force contract, the startup’s largest deal to date

• SDA requested industry proposals for Iron Dome studies

• Iran unveiled a domestically developed supersonic cruise missile

• Airbus was tapped to build 2 SAR imaging satellites for British military intelligence

• United Nations estimated it will take $53B to rebuild Gaza

• Baykar delivered 60 Bayraktar TB3 and 9 Akinci drones to Indonesia

• India purchased anti-ship cruise missiles from Russia (likely the Klub-S)

• Israel test-fired a new naval strike missile (120-mile range)

• Lynk Global raised $85m for direct-to-smartphone satellite services

• Australia made a $500m payment for AUKUS Pillar 1 (submarine)

• Elistair won a contract to supply its tethered drone-in-a-box surveillance, paired with unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) from Milrem Robotics

• France tested a Hellfire missile replacement

• Australia received its third MQ-4C Triton drone

• Airbus collaborated with Primoco to show Group 3 drones doing coordinated ISR

• Redwire was awarded a Space Force contract for an orbital refueling experiment

• Teledyne sold autonomous underwater vehicles to Sweden

• Red Cat secured $20m in debt financing and applied for $58m more—the latter from the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital

• The Netherlands signed a contract with Pilatus to buy the PC-7 MKX training systems for student pilots

• Denmark acquired AeroVironment JUMP 20 drones for Arctic surveillance

• Insitu won a $25m Navy drone ISR services contract

• DARPA selected 2 university teams for orbital manufacturing demos

• Blue Origin laid off 10% of its workforce

• NewSpace (India) unveiled a collaborative combat drone concept

• The US approved a $7 billion arms sale to Israel

• Taiwan is buying 6 E-2D Hawkeye aircraft

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