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A senior figure in Japan’s drone industry is pushing for Japan and Taiwan to align their drone rules and deepen manufacturing cooperation, arguing that mismatched regulations and Japan’s limits on defense work are holding the sector back. Kakuya Iwata, executive director of the Japan UAS Industrial Development Association, made the case in an interview with…
South Korea’s defense minister Ahn Gyu-back said Friday that every member of the country’s armed forces, roughly 500,000 personnel across the army, navy, air force and marines, will be trained to operate drones as a standard personal weapon. The announcement, delivered in Seoul on June 26, 2026, frames cheap quadcopters and loitering munitions as core…
Russia's Monocrystal, a top sapphire supplier for missile and drone optics, files for bankruptcy after Ukrainian drone strikes, sanctions, and lost markets.
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 protection against drone threats. Announced on May 4, 2026, the s
China just put another piece of its low-altitude cargo strategy in the air. The HH-200, a twin-engine unmanned freighter built by AVIC Xi’an Aircraft Industry Group, completed its maiden flight on April 15 at Pucheng, in Shaanxi Province, as Defense Mirror reports. The program targets short-haul freight routes, cross-island logistics in Southeast Asia, and Belt…
Researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University’s (NPU) School of Civil Aviation in Xi’an, China have published what they describe as the world’s first open-source flight control system built specifically for bamboo-frame unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), releasing the software and hardware configuration files free to any developer worldwide. The paper appeared on February 28 in the journal…
Lockheed Martin has selected Fortem Technologies to field an autonomous counter-drone system for critical infrastructure protection, pairing Fortem’s TrueView radar sensors and DroneHunter interceptors with Lockheed’s own Sanctum C-UAS Mission Management software, as reported by The Defense Post. The result is a layered, hardware-plus-software kill chain that is designed to detect, track, and neut
Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, is bleeding Russia’s army faster than Moscow can replace it. A detailed profile published today in The Economist reveals that December 2025 was the first month in four years of war when verified Russian losses to Ukrainian drones exceeded Russian recruitment. Since the start of winter,…
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