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No Pilot Required: Skyports and HOCHTIEF Are Surveying a German Bridge From Spain
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No Pilot Required: Skyports and HOCHTIEF Are Surveying a German Bridge From Spain

Somewhere in Germany, a massive bridge is being built. Somewhere in Spain, a drone pilot is watching it happen in real time — without leaving the office. That’s not science fiction. That’s the DJI Dock 2 doing its thing, as Heliguy reported. Skyports Drone Services has partnered with construction giant HOCHTIEF to deploy a fully-automated…

NATO and Ukraine Open UNITE-Brave Portal, Putting €10 Million in Counter-Drone Contracts Within Reach of Allied Companies
Ukraine

NATO and Ukraine Open UNITE-Brave Portal, Putting €10 Million in Counter-Drone Contracts Within Reach of Allied Companies

NATO and Ukraine opened the UNITE-Brave NATO web portal on March 25, 2026, giving Allied and Ukrainian companies their first direct access to a matchmaking system tied to a €10 million joint innovation competition. The portal, hosted on Brave1’s website, lists open challenges in Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) and air defense — the two…

Quantum Systems RAT Drone Gives Europe What It Lacked: A Shahed to Train Against
Europe

Quantum Systems RAT Drone Gives Europe What It Lacked: A Shahed to Train Against

German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems unveiled a jet-powered target drone called the RAT (Red Air Target) at the 62nd Munich Security Conference, held February 13–15, 2026 — and the problem it solves is blunter than the name suggests. European air-defense units cannot effectively train against Shahed-style mass drone attacks because they have no realistic targets…

Ukraine's Drone Industry Arrives in Düsseldorf, and It Has Receipts
Ukraine

Varta Put a Shotgun on a Drone. Ukraine’s Frontlines Say It Works.

On the table at the Brave1 pavilion at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf sat a drone unlike anything else on the floor. The frame was large — arms stretched wide, propellers big enough to move serious air. Strapped to the body was a black housing with the VARTA logo and a prominent blue battery pack.…

Germany Funds 15,000 STRILA Interceptor Drones for Ukraine’s National Guard as Shahed War Enters Industrial Phase
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Germany Funds 15,000 STRILA Interceptor Drones for Ukraine’s National Guard as Shahed War Enters Industrial Phase

Germany is funding the production of 15,000 Ukrainian-made STRILA interceptor drones for the National Guard of Ukraine, according to an announcement from the German Embassy in Ukraine on March 23. The multimillion-euro agreement — signed in Kyiv in the presence of German Chargé d’Affaires Maximilian Rasch, alongside representatives of the National Guard and Quantum Systems…

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface
Skydio

2nd Cavalry Scouts With Drones, Not Soldiers

In a forest near Grafenwöhr, Germany, the scouts of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are doing something that would have been science fiction to the cavalrymen who rode these same European roads eighty years ago, as 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment reports. They’re sitting behind their Strykers, watching a ground robot disappear into the tree line,…

Ottawa’s $900M Bet: Can Canada Lead the Western Drone Race?
Ukraine

Ottawa’s $900M Bet: Can Canada Lead the Western Drone Race?

Canada announces a CA$900 million investment in drone and aerospace technology, including a new Drone Innovation Center and Bombardier Global 6500 testbed. Learn how Ottawa is aligning with the EU and Japan to secure domestic defense supply chains and Arctic sovereignty.

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