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Skydio Debuts 100 MPH F10 Lightrunner Fixed-Wing Drone And MegaDock At Ascend 2026 — Sep 27, 2026 — Skydio pushed beyond quadcopters at its Ascend 2026 conference, unveiling the 100 mph F10 Lightrunner fixed-wing drone, a robotic MegaDock that launch...Zipline Breaks Ranks On Drone Safety, Amazon And Wing Stay Silent — Sep 18, 2026 — Zipline became the only major US delivery drone operator to answer on-the-record safety questions this month, disclosing weight, parachute and camera...DheyaTech Bags ₹43 Crore Pre-Series A To Scale India's Own Micro Gas-Turbine Engines — Sep 17, 2026 — Avaana Capital led a ₹43 crore (~$4.9M) Pre-Series A into Bengaluru deeptech DheyaTech, joined by Unimech Aerospace, to scale indigenous 20-400 kgf mi...Kite Aero Kicks Off Australian Serial Production Of Its Long-Range KITE Logistics Drone In Geelong — Sep 15, 2026 — Sydney-based Kite Aero has started serial production of its 240 km-range KITE autonomous logistics drone in Geelong with partner Sykes Advanced Manufa...Air Force Names Its First CCA Drones 'Vengeance' And 'Fury', Plans 1,000-Drone Autonomous Fleet By 2032 — Sep 15, 2026 — Air Force Secretary Troy Meink used the AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sept. 14 to officially christen General Atomics' FQ-42A 'Vengeance' and A...Hermeus Taps Anduril's Lattice for Autonomous Quarterhorse Mk 2 Flight — Sep 8, 2026 — Hermeus has selected Anduril's Lattice for Mission Autonomy for the Quarterhorse Mk 2 supersonic aircraft - the first commercial deployment of the sof...Archer Aviation Launches 'No Roads' Flight Tour Ahead Of LA28 And White House Pilot — Sep 8, 2026 — Archer Aviation kicked off its multi-state 'No Roads' Midnight flight tour on September 3, starting in Northern California ahead of the White House's...Amazon Prime Air Plans 500 US Drone Delivery Cities By End Of 2026 — Sep 1, 2026 — Amazon says its MK30 drones will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns this year, a sixfold expansion of Prime Air's current 11-metro footprint.EHang EH216-S Completes First Public Pilotless Flight In Hong Kong Cyberport — Sep 1, 2026 — EHang's EH216-S became the first pilotless passenger eVTOL to fly publicly in Hong Kong, taking off from the Cyberport waterfront vertiport on August...Palladyne AI Teams With NORDA Dynamics To Fuse SwarmOS And Ukraine-Proven Terminal Guidance — Aug 28, 2026 — Palladyne AI and Ukrainian-Estonian drone specialist NORDA Dynamics are integrating SwarmOS with NORDA's combat-proven Underdog Autonomy Module to let...Amazon Plots Sixfold Prime Air Expansion To Nearly 500 US Cities By Year End — Aug 25, 2026 — Amazon is preparing to widen Prime Air drone delivery from 11 metro areas to nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold footprint ex...Uber Invests in Zipline for Uber Eats Drone Deliveries, Targets 1M/Day by 2029 — Aug 19, 2026 — Uber and Zipline are taking Uber Eats airborne. The two announced a strategic partnership and undisclosed Uber investment, with the first drone delive...US Army Advances Five Vendors To Manufacturing After SRR Drone Fly-Off — Aug 17, 2026 — Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics were picked for manufacturing-readiness assessments after the Army's platoon-level Short R...Eve Air Mobility Completes First Partial Transition eVTOL Flight — Aug 7, 2026 — Eve's engineering prototype fired up its rear pusher propeller in flight for the first time, hitting 30 knots ground speed and closing in on wing-born...Uber Pledges $10B for AV Fleet as Q2 Growth Slows — Aug 7, 2026 — Uber's Q2 2026 earnings pinned the ride-hailing giant's autonomous future on more than $10 billion of equity stakes and fleet spending, targeting 120,...AeroVironment Bags $117M U.S. Army Order For 82 P550 eVTOL Recon Drones — Jul 31, 2026 — AeroVironment landed a $117.3M U.S. Army contract on July 20 for 82 P550 electric VTOL drones, the initial full-rate procurement for the Army's Long R...Factorial Wins First Commercial Drone Battery Order As Solid-State Enters Aerospace — Jul 27, 2026 — Nasdaq-listed Factorial Energy secured its first commercial drone battery order on July 24, extending its lithium-metal cells from cars into aerospace...SpaceX Targets July 23 For Starship Flight 13 With First V3 Starlinks — Jul 23, 2026 — SpaceX plans to launch Starship Flight 13 from Starbase Texas at 6:45 p.m. ET on July 23, deploying 20 next-generation V3 Starlink satellites in the m...Boeing To Debut MQ-28 Ghost Bat At Farnborough Airshow — Jul 19, 2026 — Boeing said its uncrewed MQ-28 Ghost Bat collaborative combat aircraft will make its Farnborough debut on static display when the UK airshow opens Jul...Tesla Launches Unsupervised Robotaxi Rides In Miami, First Beyond Texas & California — Jul 7, 2026 — Tesla's Robotaxi service went live in Miami on July 3, running fully unsupervised Model Ys across a 20-square-mile geofence in the first market outsid...