Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.
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Taiwan is buying 280 Shield AI V-BAT drones under a $1.1B program running through 2029.
This single order doubles the amount of V-BATs ever sold (as of late 2024).
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Ukrainian ground robots have run over 100,000 frontline missions… but only 2 percent are combat.
Zoom in here to learn about the logistics and evacuation.
Saved Rounds
Zuri unveiled a VTOL cargo drone (200 pounds, 400 miles)
The Pentagon invested $174M to secure a gallium supply in Australia
The Air Force is looking for an affordable hypersonic cruise missile
Rune & Havoc are partnering to put logistics software on drones
AEVEX is doubling drone production capacity
The Air Force opened bids for its Megatron C2 purchasing contract
The Pentagon took a 10% stake in Trilogy Metals for $35.6M
IMPACT Drones unveiled a 466-mph interceptor prototype
The Pentagon added Grok and ChatGPT to GenAI.mil
Drone Fight Group turned 3 HMMWVs into remotely operated vehicles
Aston Harald tested its unique unmanned hydrofoil craft
The Air Force declared IOC for the MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopter
AEVEX & Divergent are partnering to build a 3D-printed drone
Seasats’s Quickfish interceptor USV went into production
Japan requested a record $55.6B defense budget
Israel signed a $3.5B air defense deal with Greece
The Pentagon pulled its public test reports offline
ALL.SPACE won a DIU OTA for SATCOM terminals
Easy Aerial raised a $20M Series B for tethered drone production
The Javelin JV signed a deal for missile co-production in India
DARPA will run Lift Challenge-2 in 2028 with double the payload
York Space Systems unveiled a new VLEO platform
India became a GCAP dialogue partner
BlueHalo received a $11.2M add-on to its Air Force readiness deal
The Army widened its search for Stinger replacement interceptors
Saudi Arabia was approved to buy $5B in JDAMs
The Navy slipped its trainer jet award to June 2027
The Army unveiled a half-weight polymer ammo can
Turkish Aerospace flew the first HÜRJET trainer
Sea Machines tested autonomy on a 257-ft vessel with the Army
Lockheed Martin flight-tested its new HIMARS training rocket
Extant Aerospace won a $147M IDIQ for countermeasure dispensers
TYTAN debuted a rocket-boosted interceptor drone
Northrop Grumman won an $862.8M deal for 155mm guidance kits
The Pentagon wants 50 mobile SCIFs to aid defense companies
Dynetics won $40.8M for 14 more Marine Corps MRADR radars
Sceye flew a stratospheric craft 9,300 miles from New Mexico to Japan
The Army tested tethered drones flying above moving vehicles
The Navy ran the first at-sea refueling of an unmanned surface vessel
Textron won 2 Navy deals worth $85M for contractor-flown drone ISR
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