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Northrop Beats Lockheed to Guard Army Helicopter Fleet
The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a Phase II contract to advance its Improved Threat Detection System, as reported on a press release. The award, following a competitive Phase I that included Lockheed Martin, puts Northrop’s ATHENA sensor on…
NC Guard and UK Forces Train Together on Drone Integration
On April 15, 2026, North Carolina National Guard soldiers and airmen conducted a joint unmanned aerial systems exercise alongside the British Army’s 101st Royal Regiment of Artillery in New London, North Carolina, as the ARMY website reported. The training was…
NASA’s Dragonfly Octocopter Hits Three Build Milestones Ahead of 2028 Titan Launch
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is no longer a render. Over the past two months, the team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has bolted together the lander’s primary structure, dropped a full-scale parachute system over the Arizona desert, and…
Airbus A400M to Launch 12 Cruise Missiles or 50 Drones
Airbus just turned its A400M transport into something much more dangerous. On April 18, 2026, the company confirmed a new mothership variant that can launch up to 12 cruise missiles or around 50 drones straight out of the cargo ramp,…
Lockheed Martin Picks Fortem to Defend Critical Infrastructure
Lockheed Martin has selected Fortem Technologies to field an autonomous counter-drone system for critical infrastructure protection, pairing Fortem’s TrueView radar sensors and DroneHunter interceptors with Lockheed’s own Sanctum C-UAS Mission Management software, as reported by The Defense Post. The result…
Lockheed’s NetSense Turns Your Phone’s 5G Signal Into a Drone Detector
Lockheed Martin has built and demonstrated a drone detection prototype that uses no dedicated sensors, no specialized hardware, and no new infrastructure. It uses the 5G network that already exists, the same one your phone is connected to right now,…
Army Taps Anduril for $20B AI Counter-Drone Framework
The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice software…
AeroVironment Acquires ESAero in $200M Deal
AeroVironment just announced on a press release that has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace in a transaction valued at approximately $200 million, adding a certified aerospace prototyping and manufacturing operation to a company that has spent the last twelve months aggressively…
Ukraine’s $2,500 Drone Just Became America’s Most Urgent Defense Import
The Sting interceptor drone costs roughly $2,500. A single Patriot PAC-3 missile costs over $3 million. That economic gap — a ratio I’ve been covering since Wild Hornets first started mass-producing the Sting in late 2024 — just became the…
NASA’s Dragonfly Enters Full Assembly Phase as $3.35B Budget and Schedule Risks Loom Over 2028 Launch
Full rotorcraft integration on NASA’s Dragonfly octocopter began in early 2026 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — the same facility where engineers spent the past three years validating rotor performance in simulated Titan conditions.…
Pentagon And Gulf States Eye Ukrainian Interceptor Drones As Patriot Missile Stocks Run Low
The economics finally broke. Gulf states spent the last week firing Patriot interceptors worth over $13.5 million each at Iranian Shaheds that cost $30,000 to build. Now, according to reporting by the Financial Times, the Pentagon and at least one…
Ukraine’s Sunray laser burns drones out of the sky for a fraction of what Western systems cost
The U.S. Navy spent $150 million developing HELIOS, its shipboard laser defense system. Ukrainian engineers built one that fits in the trunk of a car for a few million dollars. That cost gap tells you everything about how this war…