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Why did a €12 billion AI defense company buy a robot dog startup? Helsing's Keybotic acquisition exposes Europe's critical infrastructure vulnerability.
When the German Armed Forces announced yesterday that they ordered eight MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones from General Atomics, the headlines focused on the hardware. But the real story is what this $1.78 billion procurement reveals about how Berlin has finally accepted a reality the rest of NATO grasped years ago: persistent maritime surveillance requires unmanned platforms…
Sweden is placing a very large bet on unmanned warfare, committing 4 billion Swedish crowns, about $440 million, to military drone systems that will be delivered over the next two years, a move that underlines how seriously Stockholm now views drones as core combat tools rather than niche add ons, as reported by Reuters. Sweden…
The same Silicon Valley investors who built Anduril into a $30 billion defense giant are now betting on a different kind of drone company: one founded by two twenty-somethings in Abuja, Nigeria, that manufactures its systems on the African continent with African engineers. That alone should tell you something about where the smart money thinks…
I spent the last few days parsing two very different Amazon announcements, and the contrast tells you everything about why drone delivery remains such a regulatory minefield. Within days of each other, Amazon received approval to launch Britain’s first commercial drone delivery service while simultaneously pulling the plug on its Italian operations entirely. The company’s…
DC Rainmaker tests the DJI Neo 2 vs Hover Air X1 Pro Max on the same ski runs. The Neo 2 crashed repeatedly at 2,000m altitude while the Hover Air completed every run.
Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany turned into a buzzing hive of rotors and radio chatter from December 8 to 10, 2025, as ten teams squared off in the first ever U.S. Army Europe and Africa Best Drone Warfighter Competition, as reported by Army.mil. This is an event that made one thing very clear: modern combat…
We’ve been covering Europe’s drone crisis for months, from military reconnaissance drones shutting down Munich Airport to the EU’s scramble to build a multi-billion-euro “drone wall.” But while European intelligence agencies stumbled through bureaucratic fog, seven journalism students just delivered the most comprehensive investigation yet into who’s actually behind Germany’s mysterious drone swar
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