Google abruptly dropped out of a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to create technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms after it was among the successful submissions, according to people briefed on the matter. Continue reading
KULR Secures Defence Drone Battery Order with Potential Value of $5M for 2026
KULR Technology Group, Inc. , an energy-systems platform company that enables the safe, certifiable deployment of ultra-high-power lithium battery systems for space and defence programs, hyperscale AI data centers, and telecom infrastructure OEMs, announced that it received initial purchase orders totaling nearly $1.0 million from a U.S. defence technology company and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems specializing in first-person view drones for military use. Continue reading
52 Drone Hits Fail to Destroy Ukrainian Leopard Tank During Daylong Assault
During a nearly daylong attack, a Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 tank withstood 52 strikes from Russian FPV and Molniya drones. The crew had reinforced the vehicle with layered anti-drone protection. Continue reading
Sikorsky/Robinson Unmanned Get $15M US Marine Corps Contract for Autonomous Aerial Logistics Program
The United States Marine Corps awarded a $15.5 million contract to Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, for the Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) Increment 2 program. Continue reading
ThinKom’s Truck-Mounted Microwave Gun Fries drones at US Army Test
A California company better known for building antennas that connect aircraft to satellites has quietly entered one of the most competitive markets in defence – and at the U.S. Army’s recent Cross Domain Fires Concept Focused Warfighting Experiment, its mobile High Power Microwave system showed up mounted on a pickup truck, cued by Echodyne’s EchoShield radar, ready to fry drone electronics without firing a single round. Continue reading
U.S. Marines Buy British NightFighter Mini Counter-Drone Jammers
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded a $9.5 million contract to a British defence company to procure compact radio frequency jammers capable of neutralizing small drones — and the urgency language attached to the award signals that this is not routine procurement. Continue reading
Windracers is a Key Supplier in UK’s Massive Ukraine Drone Package
Windracers has been selected as one of three primary suppliers in the UK Government’s largest ever drone support package for Ukraine. Continue reading
Amazon Delivery Drones Drop Boxes from 10 Feet in the Air
Parcels are arriving in pieces with Amazon’s artificial intelligence-powered delivery drones. The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air, rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing. Continue reading