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Northrop Flies Darpa Hybrid-Electric Xrq-73 Shepard Uas

Northrop Flies DARPA Hybrid-Electric XRQ-73 SHEPARD UAS

Northrop Grumman has successfully flown the XRQ-73 SHEPARD, a hybrid-electric flying-wing UAS developed for DARPA’s Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration program. The milestone flight took place in April 2026 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, after previous delays, as…

Hyfix Raised $15M To Out-Engineer Dji. Now Comes The Hard Part

Hyfix Raised $15M to Out-Engineer DJI. Now Comes the Hard Part

A Santa Clara startup called Hyfix Spatial Intelligence just pulled in $15 million to build an American-designed system-on-a-chip that folds flight control, high-precision positioning, secure communications, and onboard compute into a single piece of U.S.-manufactured silicon. Craft Ventures led the…