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An orange-sailed Saildrone Voyager uncrewed sailboat, hull number SD-2015, heads out across grey water past a forested island shoreline

Sweden · Sweden

Sweden Pays Saildrone for Baltic Sea Data, Not the Boats Collecting It

Four Saildrone Voyager sea drones began a year-long Baltic patrol for the Swedish Navy. Sweden buys their data and leaves the boats to Saildrone.

Haye KestelooOct 264 min read

Onboard camera HUD from an autonomous attack drone showing an armed payload and a locked AEV target over a snowy landscape

Technology

NATO-Backed Drone Picked Its Own Target And Dropped A Bomb

Scaleout's onboard AI picked an armored vehicle out of a Swedish test range and struck it with no direct human command. Geneva is still arguing.

Haye KestelooSep 18

Yellow quadcopter delivery drone hovering against a clear sky while lowering a white parcel box on a winch line

Drones for Good

Everdrone AED Drone Beats the Ambulance in Sweden, and a Bystander Restarts a Man's Heart

An Everdrone drone delivered a defibrillator before the ambulance at a Borås cardiac arrest. A bystander shocked the man's heart back, and he survived.

Haye KestelooAug 7

Ukraine

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 approximately €3.5 billion ($3.65 billion) and brings total capital raised to €660 million. Stark went…

Rafael SuárezJun 24

Ukraine

Stark Unveils Cascade and Gambit Drones Eight Months After Flunking Every Strike in Military Trials

Stark unveils Cascade and Gambit loitering munitions with fiber-optic guidance and a UK launcher deal, eight months after its Virtus failed every strike.

Haye KestelooJun 9

Ukraine

Ukraine Scales Robotic Ground Assaults To 9,000 Missions A Month As Zelensky Pitches Unmanned Warfare To Europe

Ukraine carried out more than 9,000 frontline missions with armed unmanned ground vehicles last month, up from 2,900 in November 2025, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense. The figures, reported by The New York Times on April 20, show ground robots moving from experimental curiosity to standard tactical asset in roughly twelve months. A year…

Haye KestelooApr 20

Sweden

Sweden’s K100XR Drone Killer Comes to Poland

Nordic Air Defence, the Stockholm-based startup behind the Kreuger 100XR interceptor, is opening a Polish subsidiary and signing a three-way counter-drone partnership with Polish defense companies WB Group and Tantalit. The announcement landed March 13 during an active Swedish state visit to Poland, and the timing wasn’t accidental. And all was reported by EDR Magazine.…

Rafael SuárezMar 17

China

China’s AI-Powered Radar Takes On Drone Swarms as US-Iran War Drives New Detection Race

China's 38th Research Institute integrates AI into air defense radars to counter drone swarms. As the US-Iran conflict exposes traditional radar limits, Beijing moves to bridge the detection gap shown by the recent F-15E friendly fire incident.

Haye KestelooMar 16

Sweden

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