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Stark unveils Cascade and Gambit loitering munitions with fiber-optic guidance and a UK launcher deal, eight months after its Virtus failed every strike.
Munich Airport went dark again on Saturday morning. Shortly after 9 a.m. local time, two pilots reported a possible drone near the airfield, and German air traffic control shut the runways down cold. Flights resumed about an hour later, but the day was already wrecked: 33 cancellations and 114 delays rolling well into the afternoon.…
Showing that AI drone, trained on environmental and microbiome data, can predict the appearance of Vibrio vulnificus in Baltic Sea coastal waters
German autonomous aerial systems developer CiS unveiled the ORKA Dock at the Combined Naval Event in Farnborough on May 19, 2026, calling it the world’s first fully autonomous drone launch and recovery system that operates from a moving uncrewed surface vessel without any human in the loop. The system was validated during SeaSEC 2026, an…
Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has proposed something that sounds like medieval warfare with a modern twist. Their answer to the country’s growing drone problem? Fire steel chains at quadcopters from a 40mm launcher and let physics do the rest, as reported by Tom’s Hardware. The research, led by Professor Claus Mattheck at KIT’s…
Germany’s largest defense contractor and its biggest mobile carrier announced a joint drone defense shield on Monday, combining Rheinmetall’s air defense hardware with Deutsche Telekom’s cellular network and radio frequency sensors to protect cities and critical infrastructure. The companies will present the system at the AFCEA security trade show in Bonn this week. The partnership…
Helsing is set to raise $1.2 billion at an $18 billion valuation in a Dragoneer-led round, cementing its lead among European defense AI firms.
The point was not to have drone operators train drone operators. It was to force combined arms units to work with aerial intelligence in real time
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