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AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the release of Halo_Shield, a modular, distributed, and cost-effective counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) designed to predict, detect, track, identify and defeat advanced airborne threats—including Group 1–5 UAS, coordinated drone swarms, and subsonic cruise missiles—protecting critical infrastructure and deployed forces worldwide. Continue reading
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 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
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
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
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
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 has been selected as one of three primary suppliers in the UK Government’s largest ever drone support package for Ukraine. Continue reading