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Gray drone wing and fuselage lying across the bow of a center-console fishing boat while two men look back from the helm

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Air Force Loses Shahed Clone Off Eglin, Fishing Charter Reels It In

A Pensacola charter hauled a US Air Force Shahed-136 clone out of the Gulf near Eglin. The base confirms a test article went down but won't name it.

Haye KestelooSep 21

Drone Dominance Program seal on a trade show backdrop with two FPV attack drones on the table in front of it

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Neros Makes Both Pentagon Gauntlet II Boards As Skycutter Falls To 4th

Neros is the only company on both Gauntlet II leaderboards, Perennial Autonomy wins deep strike, and March champion Skycutter drops to fourth.

Haye KestelooSep 19

Army Brig. Gen. Matt Ross, in camouflage uniform, gestures toward a large projection screen headed Community of Action that lists dozens of federal agency names and seals, with a JIATF 401 crest on the stage below.

Counter-Drone

1,500 US Agencies Are About To Get Counter-Drone Powers

A new federal rule lets certified local agencies detect and disable drones. The government expects about 1,500 of them to sign up within two years.

Haye KestelooSep 10

Three XTEND drones with different payloads hovering in formation above a green treeline under a clear blue sky

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XTEND CEO Signs $1.5B NYSE Deal Mid-Call, Pentagon Score Still Sealed

Aviv Shapira signed XTEND's JFB closing during a DroneXL interview. XTND trades on the NYSE Friday, Gauntlet II unscored. 'I think we did good,' he says.

Haye KestelooSep 3

An XTEND multirotor drone in flight with a multi-sensor payload mounted under the airframe

Department of Defense

XTEND Hits the NYSE Friday Before the Pentagon Scores It

XTEND AI Robotics starts trading on the NYSE as XTND on September 4. The Pentagon has not yet scored the Gauntlet II contest the valuation rests on.

Haye KestelooSep 1

Splash Industries T-05 unmanned surface vessel carrying a gray Airstrike Pack module with a US flag, running at speed through open blue ocean water.

Department of Defense

Splash Typhoon Drone Boat Launches Kamikaze Drones, Won't Say How Many

Splash Industries' 11-foot Typhoon USV can now launch one-way attack drones from an Airstrike Pack module. The company hasn't said how many, or which ones.

Haye KestelooAug 29

Eric Trump speaking into a microphone against a dark background at the 2020 Turning Point USA Student Action Summit

Industry

Eric Trump Gets 6% Of Counter-Drone Firm Space-Eyes For His Rolodex

A securities filing gives Eric Trump 6% of counter-drone firm Space-Eyes for his contacts as the $1M-revenue company heads for a $638M Nasdaq listing.

Haye KestelooAug 27

Three B-52H Stratofortress bombers parked in the open on the flight line at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana

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STRATCOM Calls Ukraine's Spiderweb Raid 'Utterly Eye-Opening' as Drones Circle US Nuclear Bases

A STRATCOM official calls Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb 'utterly eye-opening' as the command running America's nuclear triad studies counter-drone defense.

Haye KestelooAug 26

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