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101St Airborne Launches Aerosonde Drone At Jrtc

101st Airborne launches Aerosonde drone at JRTC

Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division launched a Textron Systems Aerosonde unmanned aircraft system during a Joint Readiness Training Center rotation at Fort Polk, Louisiana on April 9, 2026, as DVIDS reported. The deployment puts one of the Army’s leading…

Japan Drops Apaches, Bets $70M On Drones Instead

Japan Drops Apaches, Bets $70M on Drones Instead

Japan just put real money behind the idea that attack helicopters are finished. The country’s fiscal year 2026 defense budget, enacted on April 7, includes ¥11.1 billion ($69.7 million) to buy five “wide-area UAVs” for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force,…

Honeywell Puts Counter-Drone Ai On A Long-Range Vtol

Honeywell Puts Counter-Drone AI on a Long-Range VTOL

Honeywell Aerospace and California-based Odys Aviation have announced a collaboration to mount Honeywell’s SAMURAI counter-drone system on the Laila, a hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft built for long-range, runway-independent operations, as reported by UAS Weekly. The combined platform is designed to hunt…