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AFRICOM’s CURTAIN CALL Swarm Cleared a Harder Test. Confirmed Kills Weren’t the Point.
U.S. Africa Command ran its CURTAIN CALL drone-swarm defense through a second field test at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California from April 27 to May 1, 2026, and this round added the threat the program was built to stop:…
Pentagon Bets Its Drone Arsenal On Racers, Hobbyists, And Two Ukrainian Firms
The Pentagon is staking the next generation of American combat airpower on a company that once analyzed grass on golf courses, a firm with roots in aerial light shows, and a startup run by a 23-year-old former drone racing world…
Zelenskyy Tells Face the Nation the U.S. Drone Deal Still Needs One Thing: Trump to Say Yes
The framework drone agreement that Ukraine has been pushing Washington to sign for nearly a year is still unsigned, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy used a national U.S. broadcast to say exactly what is holding it up. In an interview with CBS’s…
Pentagon’s $500 Million Counter-Drone Deal Turns Ukraine’s Cheap-Interceptor Math Into U.S. Doctrine
The Pentagon has awarded Perennial Autonomy a three-year contract worth up to $500 million for drone-killing interceptors, the largest single counter-unmanned-aircraft deal the U.S. military has signed. Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Defense Department organization that tests and buys…
Ukraine’s Shahed-Killing Drones Became the Export Gulf Monarchies and U.S. Commanders Now Want
Ukraine spent four years learning to shoot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones because Russia gave it no other option. That skill is now a product on offer to Gulf monarchies and European governments, and increasingly to the U.S. military. President Volodymyr…
U.S. Navy Tests BlackSea GARC and Seasats Lightfish in Norway
The U.S. Navy is running an exercise called Arctic Sentry 2026 off the coast of northern Norway through May 24, putting unmanned surface vessels and underwater drones through their paces in cold-climate maritime operations. The two surface platforms identified in…
Sentrycs Scout: Man-Portable Cyber-Over-RF Counter-Drone Kit
Sentrycs, the Israeli counter-UAS company acquired by ONDAS last year, debuted a new man-portable cyber-over-RF detector called Scout at SOF Week in Tampa earlier this month. The product compresses the company’s fixed-site detection and mitigation stack into a battery-powered handheld…
DroneShield and Terma Partner on Integrated Counter-UAS Solutions
DroneShield and Terma have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on layered counter-unmanned aerial systems technologies, as EDR Magazine reported. The partnership combines DroneShield’s AI-powered detection and electronic warfare capabilities with Terma’s advanced command-and-control software to deliver more effective…
U.S. Marines Get Three Weeks On FPV Drones As Pentagon Volume Gap With China And Russia Widens
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune has spent three weeks training pilots on first-person-view attack drones, with deployment imminent and adversaries already capable of producing millions of similar systems each year. The New York Times…
Russia’s GRU Drafted a Plan to Give Iran 5,000 Unjammable Fiber-Optic Drones for Use Against U.S. Forces, The Economist Reports
A confidential ten-page document prepared by the GRU, the intelligence directorate of Russia’s armed forces, proposed supplying Iran with 5,000 short-range fiber-optic drones of the type used in Ukraine, an unspecified number of satellite-guided drones equipped with Starlink terminals, and…
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…
US Marines Deploy AI Rifle Scope Against Iranian Drones
Strip away the press release language. What the Marine Corps just fielded is a rifle scope that decides when to pull the trigger so the Marine doesn’t have to get it wrong. The SMASH 2000L, built by Israeli defense firm…