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Swarmer (SWMR) shares surged 950% following its IPO, driven by its AI software's 100,000+ combat missions in Ukraine. Explore the financials, the Erik Prince connection, and the future of autonomous drone swarms.
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 reshaping itself into something much larger than a drone maker. The deal closed March 16…
Tom Palmaers is a Belgian FPV pilot, firefighter, and tactical drone instructor at BSSHOLLAND who has built a quiet but serious reputation in the global FPV community for doing something most pilots don’t bother with: actually understanding what’s happening inside the hardware before he flies it. His LinkedIn is essentially a running technical journal of…
The most sophisticated camouflage technology available to Norway’s elite Arctic reconnaissance unit right now isn’t thermal cloaking, radar-absorbing material, or anything you’d find in a defense procurement catalog. It’s snow. Piled by hand into a dome, allowed to harden, and crawled into before dawn. The Ukrainians figured this out the hard way. The Norwegians figured…
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The inventor of the Jetson ONE took off from his driveway, flew over Pismo Beach surfers and straight over the pier, and landed in Grover Beach. MrBeast filmed it. The world noticed. From a Residential Driveway to the Pacific Ocean Tomasz Patan, co-founder, inventor, and CTO of Jetson, did not launch from an airport. He…
Amazon’s Prime Air division has walked away from the Commercial Drone Alliance, and the reason is blunt: a fundamental disagreement over whether detect-and-avoid technology should be mandatory across the national airspace. The split went public March 12 after Reuters obtained the letter Amazon sent to the trade group, as Unmanned Airspace reported. The Core Disagreement…
Joby Aviation flies past the Golden Gate Bridge to kick off its 2026 Electric Skies Tour. But while the flight was quiet, the real story is the difference between this prototype and the FAA-conforming aircraft. Dive into the certification data and what it means for a 2027 launch.
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