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CNN Says a Downed US Pilot Saw an Iranian Drone Swarm. The Intelligence Community Isn’t Sure He Did.
A US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle pilot, shot down over southwestern Iran on April 3, told debriefers he watched a formation of interconnected drones move as a single organism in the seconds before he ejected. Larger drones flew above,…
South Korea To Train 500,000 Soldiers as Drone Warriors
South Korea’s defense minister Ahn Gyu-back said Friday that every member of the country’s armed forces, roughly 500,000 personnel across the army, navy, air force and marines, will be trained to operate drones as a standard personal weapon. The announcement,…
Anduril Eyes Nissan’s Oppama Plant to Mass-Produce Japanese Drones, Turning a Car Factory Into a Weapons Line
Anduril Industries is in talks to buy Nissan’s Oppama assembly plant in Yokosuka, Japan, and convert the 64-year-old car factory into a production site for military drones. Reuters broke the story on June 25, 2026, citing three people familiar with…
Saronic Corsair Apache Rescue Was Years in the Making
On June 8, 2026, an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and a Navy sea drone picked up the two surviving crew members within two hours. It was described afterward as an operational first. It…
Taiwan Civilians Learn Drones to Counter China
Pan Chien-chin had never piloted a drone before May 2026. The 48-year-old food company worker walked into a small classroom in Taipei, picked up a sub-100-gram Taiwanese-built quad, and spent the afternoon learning to fly it by hand and eye…
Thiel and Sequoia Bet $570M on German Drones
Stark Defence, the Berlin startup that builds loitering munitions for the German military, closed a €500 million (roughly $570 million) funding round this week led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The deal values the two-year-old company at…
EASA Moves To Drop Drone Registration To 100 Grams, And European Hobbyists Will Carry The Cost
EASA’s NPA 2026-103 would drop EU drone registration, training, and Remote ID to 100 grams, following the UK. Pros get lighter rules; hobbyists get squeezed.
China Unveils 55-Pound Laser That Burns Drones in 4 Seconds
China just put a counter-drone laser on a soldier’s back. At the Defence Information Equipment & Technology Exhibition that opened June 16 in Beijing, the state-linked contractor Harbin Xinguang Optic-Electronics Technology rolled out two man-portable laser weapons, the Lijian II…
Fire Point Turns a Moscow Strike Into a Trade Show Ad
Fire Point ran Thursday’s combat footage from a Moscow oil refinery strike as floor entertainment at its own booth in Paris. The Ukrainian drone and missile maker ran the raw video on a screen at Eurosatory 2026 hours after its…
Teledyne FLIR Launches Black Recon Autonomous Drone
Teledyne FLIR Defense pulled the wrap off Black Recon at Eurosatory on June 15, framing it as the first vehicle-mounted micro-drone system that launches, recovers, and recharges itself without the crew ever stepping outside. Three UAVs rotate from a single…
SkyFall’s AI Interceptors Hunt Shaheds Without a Pilot’s Eyes, and Ukraine Knows the Risk It Is Taking
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer called SkyFall has flown artificial intelligence into the one job interceptor pilots could never do fast enough: spotting an incoming Shahed before the human eye registers it. At a launch site in a central Ukrainian pine…
In Berlin Four CCAs Face Off for Germany
Four combat drones lined up at the Berlin Air Show this week, each chasing the same prize: the contract to fly as Germany’s robotic wingman by 2029. The ILA 2026 show, running June 10 to 12, turned into an open…