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- Fedorov's 'Army Of Robots' Wants A Humanoid Killing Russians Within Six Months — — Former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov unveils Army of Robots, a defense-tech push aiming to put humanoid combat robots on the Russian fro...
- Skydio Debuts 100 MPH F10 Lightrunner Fixed-Wing Drone And MegaDock At Ascend 2026 — — Skydio pushed beyond quadcopters at its Ascend 2026 conference, unveiling the 100 mph F10 Lightrunner fixed-wing drone, a robotic MegaDock that launch...
- Navy Picks Crane, Indiana for First Military Nuclear Microreactor by 2028 — — The Department of War has selected Naval Weapons Station Crane in southern Indiana for the U.S. Navy's first advanced nuclear microreactor deployment,...
- Anduril's YFQ-44A Fury Fit-Checks Air-to-Ground Munitions for USAF — — Anduril has revealed that its YFQ-44A Fury Collaborative Combat Aircraft has completed fit-checks with a full family of air-to-ground weapons, expandi...
- XTEND Wins USSOCOM Phase III Modular Kinetic Drone Program Selection — — XTEND has secured the Phase III award of U.S. Special Operations Command's Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone program, advancing its XOS-powered Striker, Sc...
- US Army Awards $10.64M Contract For Ukraine-Proven Raybird Drone — — The U.S. Army has awarded Skyeton Inc., the U.S. arm of Ukraine's Skyeton, a $10.64 million contract to deliver combat-proven Raybird reconnaissance d...
- Tekever Closes $580M Series D At $6.4B To Bankroll Defense M&A Push — — European AI-drone maker Tekever bags a first close of $580 million led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford, valuing the Ukraine-hardened surveillanc...
- Voyager Wins Space Force Contract To Develop Satellite-To-Satellite Comms Waveform — — Space Systems Command has tapped Voyager Technologies to develop a flight-ready waveform for direct satellite-to-satellite communications across milit...
- US Army Winds Down Drone Battalion, Pushes UAVs Down To Every Squad — — The Army is retiring its year-old experimental drone battalion after Exercise Saber Junction, redirecting its Ukraine-inspired lessons into a squad-le...
- Saronic Wins Navy LCU Contract To Build Landing Craft At Port Alpha — — Saronic will build a series of Landing Craft Utility vessels for the US Navy at its new Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville, Texas — its first traditio...
- DheyaTech Bags ₹43 Crore Pre-Series A To Scale India's Own Micro Gas-Turbine Engines — — 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...
- IDF to launch unmanned systems and AI branch by December — — Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir told commanders that Israel's military will stand up a dedicated branch for robotics, drones and AI-driven warfare by Hanukk...
- SpaceX Flies USSF-153 Classified Payload For US Space Force From Vandenberg — — SpaceX launched the classified USSF-153 payload for the US Space Force on September 10, 2026 from Vandenberg — its 5th national-security mission of th...
- Pentagon in Talks to Lend Fluidstack $5B for AI Data-Center Supply Chain — — The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital is in talks to lend roughly $5 billion to AI cloud startup Fluidstack to secure US data-center supply chain...
- Mach Industries Doubles Valuation to $3.7B on $600M Series C Extension — — Mach Industries raised a fresh $600 million in a Series C extension co-participated by Ribbit Capital, Infinite Capital, Bedrock Capital and Sequoia —...
- AeroVironment Books First-Ever US Laser Weapon Production Deal With $464.8M LOCUST X3 Award — — The Army's Enduring-High Energy Laser program moves LOCUST X3 from prototype to sustained production, tapping AeroVironment for dozens of 30 kW counte...
- AeroVironment Books Record $1.5B Backlog As Q1 FY27 Revenue Hits $480.5M — — AeroVironment opened fiscal 2027 with record first-quarter revenue of $480.5 million and a funded backlog of $1.5 billion, up 37% year over year, as a...
- AeroVironment Books First International LOCUST Laser Order For $50M+ — — A landmark direct commercial sale — AeroVironment's first foreign purchase order for its LOCUST laser weapon system — arrives days after the US Army's...
- Hermeus Taps Anduril's Lattice for Autonomous Quarterhorse Mk 2 Flight — — Hermeus has selected Anduril's Lattice for Mission Autonomy for the Quarterhorse Mk 2 supersonic aircraft - the first commercial deployment of the sof...
- Palantir, Anduril Win $192M Army TITAN Production Award — — The U.S. Army pushed its Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node from prototype to production with a combined $192 million to Palantir and Anduril...