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Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are backing Powerus, a West Palm Beach drone roll-up formed just last year, through a reverse merger that will take the company public on Nasdaq under the ticker “PUSA,” expected to close in summer 2026. The transaction—reported this morning by The Wall Street Journal—merges Powerus with Aureus Greenway Holdings…
The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was struck by two drones overnight, triggering a fire and “minor material damage”, according to Saudi officials. No injuries were reported, but the message was loud anyway: US citizens need to get out of Saudi Arabia, and fast. Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said the drones hit the embassy…
Following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to grant the U.S. access to British bases for offensive strikes, an Iranian-made Shahed drone hit RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Explore the political fallout, the looming shadow of the Iraq War, and Britain’s urgent need for battle-tested Ukrainian counter-drone expertise.
The policy change is narrow on paper. The implications are not. On January 21, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that removes licensing requirements for certain commercial UAVs exported to most Wassenaar Arrangement member states and expands the License Exception STA pathway for select MT-controlled drone…
Seven months after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a reverse-engineered Iranian drone at a Pentagon event and called it America’s answer to the Shahed-136, that drone flew in combat. In the early hours of February 28, 2026, the U.S. military confirmed the first combat use of the Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS)…
ParaZero Technologies Ltd. stepped into the spotlight with something that looks like a carbine but behaves like a flying trap: It is called DefendAir.
Israeli drone maker XTEND is heading to the public markets through a $1.5 billion reverse merger with Florida based JFB Construction Holdings, a Nasdaq listed contractor whose core business until now has had little to do with defense robotics, as Bloomberg reports. The combined company will rebrand as XTEND AI Robotics and trade under the…
US based Ondas Holdings is seeking to acquire Aeronautics, the unmanned aerial vehicle subsidiary of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
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