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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. The timing matters because this is the phase where problems get expensive fast. And according…
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 is reshaping the defense industry. A new report from The Atlantic, published today by staff…
Lockheed Martin has unveiled the Lamprey Multi Mission Autonomous Undersea Vehicle, or Lamprey MMAUV, and the message is clear, the deep ocean is no longer a passive space but an active, thinking battlespace. Designed to give the U.S. Navy and allied forces an edge in contested waters, Lamprey is a plug and play autonomous submersible…
The US Navy has quietly crossed a threshold that defense planners have been chasing for decades. A warship used a laser, not a missile, to destroy multiple airborne threats during a real sea based test, as reported by the Kyiv Post. According to Lockheed Martin, the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Preble successfully shot down…
New video footage shows the RQ-170 Sentinel, one of America’s most secretive stealth drones, taxiing in broad daylight at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The footage, captured by aviation observer Uncanny Expeditions and shared on X by @thenewarea51 on January 30, 2026, gives the public one of the clearest looks at the classified drone…
The Baton Rouge Police Department has added a new aircraft to its growing drone unit, and this one immediately stands apart from the rest of the fleet. Unveiled this week, the Edge Autonomy Stalker VXE30 is significantly larger than any of the other thirty drones currently operated by the department, with a wingspan that stretches…
Some drones announce themselves with noise, blinking lights, and shaky cellphone footage, others arrive like a thought you did not know you were having, quiet, inevitable, already there before you noticed. Saturday night over Venezuela, the RQ-170 Sentinel belonged firmly to the second category. At least one, and possibly two, of the U.S. Air Force’s…
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works just ran a live AI demonstration that hits on one of the hardest problems in autonomy – the unknown of what happens when an unmanned mission goes sideways. In the demonstration, Lockheed’s AI-driven contingency management software detected simulated fuel issues on a Stalker XE drone, generated updated mission options in seconds,…
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