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Neros Raises $250M At $2.5B As The Army Bets On A Million Drones
Neros closed a $250 million Series C at a $2.5 billion valuation. It builds 1,200 drones a week and has promised a million a year by 2028.
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Red Cat Has Air Force Black Widows Built as Army Tests AiN
Red Cat's entire $2.49 million Air Force Black Widow order is built and waiting, Divisional CEO Mitch McDonald told DroneXL, as the Army assesses the company's new Palantir-equipped AiN payload on its own factory floor.
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Hoverfly Launches NDAA-Compliant Drone Components Line, Betting on Blue UAS Demand
Hoverfly Technologies has launched Hoverfly Elements, a new business division selling NDAA-compliant drone components built for defense and commercial UAS manufacturers. The Sanford, Florida-based company unveiled the line at Xponential 2026, and its first products are drone motors and electronic speed controllers built with Korea Robot Manufacturing, plus GPS modules developed with Septentrio, a
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Congress Wants Sea Drones to Guard Army Boats
Congress wants the Army to put robot boats in the water to protect its manned ones. A new defense bill directs the Army to study using unmanned surface vessels as escorts for its watercraft, the boats that haul troops and cargo into a fight. The timing isn’t subtle. Ukraine has spent two years proving that…
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U.S. Army Merges Drones and Electronic Warfare at Fort Stewart
The U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division is training its Soldiers to fight in a world where a drone flying overhead and a jammer carried on your back are just as important as the rifle in your hands, as ARMY.MIL reported. During Raider Density, an intensive training event running April through May at Fort Stewart, Georgia,…
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US Marines Deploy AI Rifle Scope Against Iranian Drones
Drones are the primary target for the US Marine Corps' new SMASH 2000L AI rifle scope. Learn how this computer-vision technology is neutralizing UAS threats with 95% accuracy.
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An-28 Becomes World’s First Drone-Launching Drone Hunter
On April 23, footage from Ukrainian pilot Tymur Fatkullin showed an Antonov An-28 turboprop firing P1-SUN interceptor drone from underwing
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Army Opens Flightwerx Drone Hub Next to Fort Rucker
The U.S. Army opened Flightwerx on April 20, a new drone innovation facility in Daleville, Alabama, sitting right outside Fort Rucker. The site is built to train soldiers on unmanned systems, connect them with industry and academia, and feed the Army’s push to close a documented gap in small drone and FPV warfare, as The…
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