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The U.S. Navy is running an exercise called Arctic Sentry 2026 off the coast of northern Norway through May 24, putting unmanned surface vessels and underwater drones through their paces in cold-climate maritime operations. The two surface platforms identified in the exercise are the Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft, known as GARC, built by BlackSea Technologies…
DJI just announced the winners of the 11th Annual SkyPixel Photo and Video Contest, and if you were feeling reasonably good about your drone footage, I’d recommend not scrolling too far. The competition drew nearly 95,000 submissions from 96 countries, with a prize pool worth over $200,000. The results are, frankly, humbling. The Gate: The…
For the first time in the war, Ukraine seized a Russian position without a single soldier stepping forward. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday that an enemy position had been taken “exclusively by unmanned platforms — ground systems and drones,” forcing Russian soldiers to surrender with zero Ukrainian casualties, according to Business Insider. That account…
The most sophisticated camouflage technology available to Norway’s elite Arctic reconnaissance unit right now isn’t thermal cloaking, radar-absorbing material, or anything you’d find in a defense procurement catalog. It’s snow. Piled by hand into a dome, allowed to harden, and crawled into before dawn. The Ukrainians figured this out the hard way. The Norwegians figured…
On March 2, 2026, Teledyne FLIR Defense and Norway's STORM Adapt Group signed a memorandum of understanding at EnforceTac 2026 in Oslo
New details from the Hedgehog 2025 exercise confirm that NATO's European armies showed up unprepared for drone warfare.
Poland has signed a contract worth roughly 3.8 billion dollars to deploy what will become Europe’s largest integrated counter drone system, a move shaped directly by hard lessons from the war in Ukraine and rising airspace violations along NATO’s eastern edge, as reported by Aviacion Online. The program, known as SAN or System Antydronowy SAN,…
The Royal Navy has taken another clear step toward a more networked future, after a Wildcat HMA2 helicopter successfully demonstrated real time targeting using live data from multiple uncrewed aircraft during trials at the National Drone Hub in Predannack, Cornwall, as The Avionist reports. During the event, a Wildcat from 815 Naval Air Squadron carried…
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