People who travelled to a Christmas drone show in West Sussex in England are demanding refunds after describing the event as “awful” and “shockingly poor”. Continue reading
NAVAIR Selects 4 Vendors to Compete for Drone ISR Basic Ordering Agreements
The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command’s program executive office for unmanned aviation and strike weapons has revealed plans to issue delivery orders under four basic ordering agreements to support land and sea-based unmanned aerial system contractor-owned, contractor-operated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, services. Continue reading
Russian Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drones now Armed with Air-to-Air Missiles
Russia has fielded a new version of the Shahed-136 kamikaze drone armed with a single R-60 air-to-air missile. In principle, the heat-seeking R-60 would give the one-way attacker a way to engage Ukrainian fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, and creates a deterrent threat, but the effectiveness of this combination is unclear. Continue reading
Croatia’s Orqa Scales Production Capacity to 280,000 Drones, Eliminating Chinese Drone Tech
– Orqa, a leading European developer of FPV (first-person view) and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has significantly expanded manufacturing at its headquarters in Osijek, Croatia. The facility can now produce up to 280,000 NDAA-compliant drones per year using Orqa’s proprietary components, eliminating dependence on Chinese supply chains. Continue reading
Heven AeroTech Raises $100M in Series B, Reaching $1B Valuation
– Heven AeroTech, a pioneer in hydrogen-powered Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), has announced a $100 million raise through a Series B round that values the company at $1 billion. Continue reading
Russian Shahed and Gerbera Drones Form Radio Network for Real-Time Control
Russia is installing radio modems on Shahed and Gerbera loitering munitions, forming a network that complicates Ukrainian countermeasures. The devices run on different frequencies. Continue reading
HENSOLDT’s New TAERVUS EW System with Integrated AI
Sensor solution provider HENSOLDT presents TAERVUS, a fully integrated system for Electromagnetic Warfare (EW). Among other things, it combines state-of-the-art radio direction finders, receivers and jammers/exciters with powerful signal processing software and HENSOLDT’s own Spectrum Battle Management Suite (SBMS). Continue reading
Bayraktar Kizilelma Unmanned Fighter Executes Beyond Visual Range Simulated Air-to-Air Strike
Turkey’s Bayraktar Kizilelma unmanned fighter scored the first recorded beyond visual range air-to-air kill by a jet-powered UAV during a Black Sea test on 30 November 2025. In the test conducted with the participation of two F-16 fighter jets of the Turkish Air Force, KIZILELMA locked onto the target F-16 using the national AESA Radar MURAD, and achieved a direct hit in its simulated fire test with the national air-to-air missile GÖKDOĞAN. Continue reading