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Defence · 3 Nov

United States: the jet-powered, tail-sitting drone is designed to take off and land vertically; Shield AI plans a first flight before the end of the year.

Defence · 3 Nov

Ukraine: the company says the drone team now runs development, production and sales independently.

Defence · 3 Nov

United States: the Navy will run a demonstration for the Marine Corps' Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System, Increment II, from 25 January to 5 February 2027.

Defence · 3 Nov

Ukraine: the figure covers installations since January, with 86.65 km added in October.

Defence · 3 Nov

Turkey: the maker says the round splits into five sub-projectiles; results come from the company's own tests.

Defence · 3 Nov

Turkey: at the Euronaval exhibition MKE unveiled an armed uncrewed surface vessel variant with a payload bay that can carry tube-launched drones.

Defence · 3 Nov

United States: Defense One reports more than USD 115 million committed to ground-robot projects in fiscal 2026, against 22,000-plus ordered by Ukraine in seven months.

Defence · 3 Nov

Ukraine: the wheeled robot is meant for logistics and for evacuating damaged equipment, including other ground drones.

Defence · 3 Nov

France: Naval Group unveiled a 170-metre concept ship built around a mission bay for launching and recovering drones.

Defence · 3 Nov

France: the two firms will develop and test a boat with a 30 kg warhead, 35-knot top speed and up to 200 km range, according to KNDS.

Defence · 3 Nov

South Korea: the memorandum aims at one operator managing many unmanned systems, using the company's taxi dispatch and route-planning technology.

Defence · 3 Nov

A REMUS 620 vehicle took part in one workflow covering mine detection, classification and neutralisation.

Defence · 3 Nov

France: the armed forces minister announced the framework at Euronaval and a second deep-sea ROV order.

Defence · 3 Nov

France: the French procurement agency, Thales and Lacroix plan flight tests of the first prototype in 2027.

Defence · 3 Nov

Norway: the 50 kg CORAX 600 hovered to photograph seabed targets while a drone boat above it kept track of its position, at the REPMUS exercise in Portugal.

Defence · 3 Nov

Ukraine's defence ministry and Brave1 will fund up to four teams building missiles launched from drones to intercept jet-powered Shahed-type drones.

Defence · 3 Nov

Four configurations share one gun and programmable ammunition, ranging from a containerised version to a radar-guided close-in system.

Defence · 3 Nov

France: the defence procurement agency says tests in May and June 2026 cleared the drone for French Navy service; this follows the order already published.

Defence · 3 Nov

Germany: Airbus ended its Wingman concept to focus on a faster-to-field collaborative combat aircraft, aiming at 2032 service.

Defence · 3 Nov

Government orders secured, with first deliveries planned this year, the companies say.

Defence · 3 Nov

An upgraded ZIRKA interceptor drone destroyed a Russian jet-powered Geran-5 drone at 3,500 meters altitude, the interceptor's developer project reported on 2 November, according to lb.ua.

Defence · 3 Nov

France's defence procurement agency has placed an initial order for the vertical-takeoff version of the Aliaca shipborne drone, Airbus announced on 29 October, after trials in 2024 and 2025.

Defence · 3 Nov

Three MQ-9A Reaper drones sent by the United States have arrived in Colombia, along with two Black Hawk helicopters, to strengthen operations against armed groups in the country, AsuntosLegales reported on 3 November.

Defence · 2 Nov

Russia: the manufacturer says it is already used in the war and gives no range, speed or endurance.

Defence · 2 Nov

United States: a federal court found Saildrone was unlawfully excluded from the Navy's competition for medium-sized uncrewed surface vessels.

Defence · 2 Nov

Sweden: the 18-metre boat comes in surveillance, anti-ship and short-range air-defence versions; Sweden is the launch customer.

Defence · 2 Nov

Ukraine: Russia's Kometa navigation modules use arrays of 16 and now 20 receiving elements to keep satellite navigation working under jamming.

Defence · 2 Nov

Russia: TASS reports the live demonstration for journalists, with both targets engaged at under 150 m.

Defence · 2 Nov

Ukraine: the military intelligence agency HUR published a technical breakdown based on recovered wreckage.

Defence · 2 Nov

Ukraine: the developers say the D-Vision SDR scans 500 megahertz to 8.7 gigahertz and turns drone signals into video.

Defence · 2 Nov

United States: companies can test drones against GPS jamming and radio interference without entering a competition.

Defence · 2 Nov

The Bundeswehr has ordered six Tytan Drone Defender systems and two command vehicles to protect mobile forces.

Defence · 2 Nov

South Korea's defense ministry launched a new Defense Drone Agency at a ceremony in Pocheon on 2 November, Yonhap reported.

Defence · 2 Nov

Ukraine’s defence ministry says its forces have used heavy aerial drones to evacuate wounded service members, including a test under electronic warfare using AI-based navigation.

Defence · 2 Nov

The Royal Air Force's Protector RG1 flew its first operational missions on 14-16 October, spending 10 hours tracking a Russian frigate in the English Channel alongside Royal Navy warships and helicopters, British media reported on 31

Defence · 1 Nov

China's GJ-21, a shipborne stealth reconnaissance-and-strike drone, has completed its first takeoff and landing aboard the Sichuan, China's first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, state broadcaster CGTN reported on 31 October, citing a

Defence · 1 Nov

Airbus has shown that operators more than 20 kilometers away can take control of an unmanned UH-72 helicopter and hand it back, Defence Industry Europe reported on 31 October.

Defence · 1 Nov

At the Army's Marambaia proving ground on 28-29 October, the APOLLO unmanned ground vehicle fired a 7.62mm machine gun through a remotely operated REMAX 4 weapon station, with a .50 caliber gun evaluated the next day, Tecnodefesa

Defence · 31 Oct

INLEAP Photonics opened a new production hall in Hannover on 29 October and is moving its laser-based counter-drone system from prototypes to industrial series production, soldat-und-technik reported on 30 October.

Defence · 31 Oct

The European Union announced the establishment of two drone technology centres on 30 October, Latvia's defence ministry reported.

Defence · 31 Oct

The French Army has converted a light cavalry squadron of the 1st Marine Infantry Regiment into its first all-drone combat unit and is now scaling up: around 15 drone-combat units are planned by summer 2027, Defense News reported on 30

Defence · 30 Oct

United States: the maker Ornadyne says other vendors' sensors at the "Game of Drones" event could not identify its O1 as a drone.

Defence · 30 Oct

France: the Aeronautical Maintenance Directorate ordered four systems of two aircraft each, after an evaluation found the 120 kg drone met requirements.

Defence · 30 Oct

German company ARX Robotics and Ukrainian company ROBONEERS have completed the first major system tests of an armed unmanned ground vehicle intended for Ukrainian forces, Euronews reported on 29 October.

Defence · 30 Oct

Shipbuilder HII is building 10 Romulus unmanned surface vessels for the US Navy in Louisiana, marking construction of the first vessel on 28 October, Defence Industry Europe reported on 29 October.

Defence · 30 Oct

Australia is gifting an unspecified number of Australian-made Bluebottle unmanned surface vessels to Fiji to patrol its vast waters against drug trafficking, ABC and Australian Defence Magazine reported on 30 October.

Defence · 29 Oct

Brazil: the army technology centre and the company aim for a vehicle-mounted system that detects and shoots down small drones, with a prototype expected in the first half of 2027.

Defence · 29 Oct

Sweden and the United States flight-tested early warning from a drone: Saab's LoyalEye radar, integrated on a General Atomics MQ-9B, detected, tracked and classified air targets in a flight over southern California, announced 28 October.

Defence · 29 Oct

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a European country had funded 2,000 Bars interceptor drones and that one destroyed a Shahed in testing before a Starshield restriction halted operations.

Defence · 29 Oct

Brazil's army tested a domestically developed kamikaze drone, reported 27 October: the army technology center and two national companies validated the safety mechanisms and the explosive payload's controlled function in flight tests.

Defence · 29 Oct

The United States Air Force flew its XQ-67A uncrewed combat aircraft with integrated mission systems and beyond-line-of-sight data links in a single flight at the Nevada test range, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on 27 October.

Defence · 28 Oct

Bundeswehr buys net-catcher drones for base protection: the procurement office signed a contract with ARGUS Interception on 15 October for systems that fly up to an intruding small drone, catch it in a net and set it down on the ground

Defence · 28 Oct

France tested a home-grown kamikaze boat within six months: the defence procurement agency took its low-cost SMOKERS uncrewed attack boat from concept to sea trials, with four trial campaigns completed and three boats operated from

Defence · 28 Oct

Turkey’s Defence Ministry says the Kalkan vertical-takeoff drone completed its first ocean-condition flight trials from the frigate TCG Gelibolu in the Indian Ocean.

Defence · 28 Oct

A satellite-link demonstration connects a carrier control station to a distant MQ-25 test asset.

Defence · 27 Oct

Helsing presented an autonomous air-defense system on 26 October: its CONTRA command software merges data from different radar, optical and acoustic sensors into one air picture and assigns each threat to the best-suited defensive weapon.

Defence · 27 Oct

Sweden's navy gets year-round uncrewed Baltic Sea surveillance as a service: the defence materiel administration contracted Saildrone to operate four Voyager uncrewed boats for 360 days each, monitoring vessel traffic in Swedish waters

Defence · 27 Oct

Thailand's defence ministry received Israeli anti-drone fire-control units and Thai troops have mounted them on their existing rifles after training by the supplier, reported 26 October.

Defence · 27 Oct

Qatar's state-owned Barzan Holdings formed a joint venture with Ukrainian counter-drone company Carmine Sky to build layered drone air defense, and launched its first family of Qatar-designed drones and uncrewed boats at the Milipol

Defence · 27 Oct

South Korea: Korea Aerospace Industries flew its FA-50 fighter in formation with its in-house AAP drone for the first time earlier this month, reported 26 October.

Defence · 26 Oct

Turkish drones demonstrated submarine hunting: at the navy's first exercise built entirely around unmanned systems (TURNAs-26, running 19-27 October off Antalya), a long-endurance Aksungur drone dropped sonar buoys into the

Defence · 26 Oct

Ukraine’s Defence Ministry approved the Blade interceptor from Phantom Defense for procurement, according to the cited report.

Defence · 26 Oct

India's army bought drone-tracking radars under a contract worth about 87 million US dollars signed with Bharat Electronics on 21 October; the radars detect and track small drones.

Defence · 26 Oct

Britain proposes expanding its army drone contract: under a transparency notice reported 26 October, the defence ministry proposes to raise the weight ceiling of its mini-drone contract with Lockheed Martin UK from 20 to 50 kilograms

Defence · 26 Oct

Australia, Britain and the United States ran joint underwater-drone trials off California on 21 October: more than 40 crewed and uncrewed systems practised submarine hunting and resupply under attack together, including an extra-large

Defence · 25 Oct

Uncrewed artillery: the Army is looking at testing an uncrewed artillery system, army and ministry circles confirmed to hartpunkt; the project is in an early phase.

Defence · 25 Oct

United States: the Defense Innovation Unit announced that orders are in preparation for 60,000 small attack drones from nine companies, following the second flyoff (Gauntlet II, held in August at Fort Carson) of the Drone Dominance

Defence · 25 Oct

United States: L3Harris received a three-year contract worth up to USD 60 million to develop a ramjet-powered long-range interceptor against small and medium drones, under the Army's extended-range counter-drone missile program; the

Defence · 25 Oct

United States: Special Operations Command awarded six companies contracts to mature small first-person-view attack drones under phase three of its Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone program: Neros (USD 3.1 million), DFA Systems (USD 2.3

Defence · 25 Oct

Denmark: the Danish defence acquisition organisation awarded Systematic a contract for a nationwide counter-drone command-and-control capability ready to integrate artificial-intelligence-supported analysis.

Defence · 25 Oct

Turkey: a Bayraktar Akinci drone fired Roketsan's Lacin munition, which selected its target autonomously with a TV seeker for the first time, in a live-fire test on October 21; two laser-guided MAM-L munitions were also fired and all

Defence · 25 Oct

Iran: the army presented the Arash-3 strike drone, with payload raised from about 50 kg to a reported 100-150 kg, AI-assisted guidance and GPS-independent navigation; the Iranian military claims about 2.3 times the damage potential of

Defence · 25 Oct

India: the Army began the process to buy three types of drones - tactical drones for surveillance and attack within 10-15 km, one-way attack drones reaching 150 km, and high-altitude drones for long-range precision strikes - citing

Defence · 25 Oct

Ukraine’s defence intelligence says Russia increased production of Geran-4 and Geran-5 jet-powered attack drones to 4,000 per month, from about 3,000 in August.

Defence · 25 Oct

Ukraine's sea drones go international (October 22): at REPMUS, NATO's annual maritime uncrewed-systems exercise in Portugal, Ukrainian-British company UFORCE presented its new MV7.2 and MV7.3 uncrewed boats, designed in Portugal for

Defence · 25 Oct

Japan buys Ukrainian interceptors (announced October 10): Japan's defense ministry signed a contract to buy interceptor drones from Ukrainian manufacturer SkyFall, Defense Minister Koizumi said; model, quantity and value undisclosed,

Defence · 25 Oct

Taiwan's big drone buy (reported October 17): the navy plans to acquire 280 V-BAT vertical-takeoff reconnaissance drones from Shield AI under a four-year, TWD 36 billion (about USD 1.1 billion) program; with 12 already delivered to the

Defence · 25 Oct

Market engagement for an extra-large underwater vehicle accompanies a separate reconnaissance-drone tender.

Defence · 25 Oct

China (October 13-15): the People's Armed Police showed low-cost, AI-guided interceptor drones designed against small drones at the Great Wall 2026 counterterrorism forum in Beijing, attended by military delegates from 62 countries,

Defence · 25 Oct

Morocco arms its drone fleet from the UAE (October 9): the Royal Moroccan Air Force signed a contract with the UAE's EDGE Group at the Marrakech Air Show for Desert Sting 16 glide bombs (23 kg, 12 kg warhead, 15 km range) and Thunder

Defence · 24 Oct

United States: at Fort Knox on October 15, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstrated a team of four autonomous ground vehicles (including an Overland AI vehicle carrying an Anduril attack drone) that scout and hunt

Defence · 24 Oct

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division says a tactical drone located a moving ship and landed without GPS or a pilot during summer flight tests.

Defence · 23 Oct

Drone regiment: the Army will set up its own drone regiment from next year, subordinated to the 10th Panzer Division in Veitshöchheim, with drones ranging beyond 500 km plus electronic-warfare capability; the division is earmarked for

Defence · 23 Oct

Drone wingman: the Defence Ministry formally told Boeing it will not directly procure the MQ-28 Ghost Bat.

Defence · 23 Oct

United States: the Pentagon launched a 120-day sprint to field counter-drone armed uncrewed boats, with the Defense Innovation Unit offering USD 40 million in its counter-drone boat challenge.

Defence · 23 Oct

United States/South Korea: HD Hyundai and Anduril demonstrated their autonomous surface vessel for the US Navy in navigation trials off Long Beach, California.

Defence · 23 Oct

Australia unveiled weapon payload concepts intended for future integration with the Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle.

Defence · 23 Oct

Europe: the European Defence Agency's EUR 35.5 million Combat Unmanned Ground Systems project (nine member states, 28 companies, coordinated by Leonardo) held its final demonstration: uncrewed ground vehicles from six nations (from