🔷 Saved Rounds 9.24.25

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Stealth is now 50 years old.

Zoom in here for a reflective look at the past, the present, and the future of stealth.

They Said It

“We must understand the domain, but it’s more than just that; we must move beyond just a potpourri of sensors and data into an era of true decision quality understanding.”

— Gen. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations, on advancing space domain awareness through deeper integration and improved decision-making beyond sensor data.

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Saved Rounds

• Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works revealed a new CCA drone (first flight 2027)

• Schiebel expands its helicopter-drone lineup with the armed variants

• York Space delivered its largest batch of satellites for launch for the SDA

• Verified Market Reports reported that the military radar market will grow to $17.2B by 2033

• L3Harris won a $292M Army contract for more Javelin solid rocket motors

• Savox Communications & Nokia announced a partnership for tactical communications

• BlackSky secured another NGA contract for automated change detection

• Textron is taking its Beechcraft M-346N on tour to garner awareness of its offering for the Navy T-45 replacement program

• Northrop Grumman’s Beacon autonomy test bed will fly this fall

• South Korea announced an upgrade plan for its indigenous KF-21 Boramae fighter jet

• The Royal Navy declared the Malloy T-150 and Peregrine drones ready for frontline operations

• The Air Force’s last MC-12W Liberty ISR aircraft has been retired

• PDW won a $20M Army contract to supply C100 drones and payloads

• ReOrbit raised a $53.3M Series A funding round to expand spacecraft production

• Maxar & AIDC announced a partnership to deploy Raptor software in Taiwan's drone industry

• China unveiled a large twin-engine flying-wing drone

• Maxar & Ecopia AI launched Vivid Features, an AI-powered mapping system

• Reliable Robotics closed a $17.4M deal to operate its autonomous Cessna 208B for Air Force cargo testing

• Reaction Dynamics was selected to proceed into phase 2 of NATO's DIANA accelerator

• Steadicopter & ParaZero integrated an airdrop system into a Black Eagle 50E unmanned helicopter

• Scale AI secured a $100M ceiling contract to make its platform available for the Pentagon

• Taiwan unveiled an indigenous ballistic missile defense system

• CACI won a potential $180M contract to upgrade the Air Force’s IT in the Pacific

• Teledyne FLIR Defense unveiled the autonomous launch and recovery system for drones

• Machina Labs won an AFRL contract to boost the capabilities of its RoboCraftsman machine to automate aircraft production

• Applied Intuition & AEVEX Aerospace demoed autonomy on the Atlas launched effect

• NVIDIA is set to invest $5B in Intel

• Norway was approved to buy 800+ GBU-39 glide bombs

• Northrop Grumman’s 3 chip factories are now taking orders from other aerospace and defense firms

• Lockheed Martin secured a contract to upgrade South Korea’s F-16 flight simulators

• The Navy approved the MQ-4C Triton for operations, despite deficiencies and potential mission risks

• The Netherlands was approved to buy 230 AIM-120C-8 missiles for $570M

• Belgium was approved to buy 550+ AIM-9X missiles for $568M

• Peru was approved to buy 12 F-16 Block 70 fighters for $3.42B

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