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A startup’s drone just deployed armed FPVs from the air during a live-fire exercise of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Polk. Petrel Technologies validated its AERO Sky hybrid VTOL unmanned aircraft alongside the 101st Airborne Division during a Joint Readiness Training Center exercise at Fort Polk last week, with multiple armed First-Person View drones […]View the full article

Poland is testing the counter-drone technologies it intends to deploy along its eastern border — and one of the systems that showed up at the Central Air Force Firing Range in Ustka last week listens for drones rather than looking for them. Operational tests for Poland’s Eastern Shield program, known in Polish as Tarcza Wschód, […]View the full article

A Silicon Valley AI startup just raised $100 million to build what it describes as the artificial intelligence brain for unmanned warfare. Scout AI Inc. announced an oversubscribed $100 million Series A financing round to accelerate development of Fury, its foundation model for unmanned warfare. The round was co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, […]View the full article

AM General showed up to Modern Day Marine with two vehicles and a clear message: the company that built the HMMWV for four decades is now building the unmanned systems that will operate alongside whatever comes next. At Booth 2007 of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., AM General displayed its next-generation […]View the full article

On April 14, teams from MBDA and Safran Electronics & Defense conducted the inaugural live test of THUNDART, a new long-range artillery rocket developed entirely within France, with support from the Directorate General of Armament Missile Testing division, known as DGA EM. The test took place at the Île du Levant test range and validated […]View the full article

Ukrainian drone operators reached deep into Russian territory on April 29, striking two Russian military helicopters on the ground in Voronezh Oblast. The operation was a joint effort by combined crews of the 429th Unmanned Systems Brigade “Achilles” and the 43rd Separate Army Aviation Brigade, planned and executed in coordination with Special Operations Center “A.” […]View the full article

Japan’s Self-Defense Forces are participating in Balikatan 26, the U.S.-Philippine hosted multinational exercise, and the capabilities they brought to the training reflect a force increasingly oriented toward the kind of joint, combined operations that the Indo-Pacific security environment demands. The Japan Joint Staff released imagery showing the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s US-2 amphibious aircraft conducting […]View the full article

A Ukrainian company has built a heavy electric robotic ground vehicle designed for the kind of terrain and threat environment that the war in Ukraine has made grimly familiar — and the Mamont prototype addresses the battlefield realities that off-the-shelf systems were never designed to handle. Armolab, a Ukrainian developer, has unveiled the Mamont — […]View the full article

BAE Systems has started delivering a GPS receiver that the U.S. military has needed for years — a field-installable, M-Code capable replacement for the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver that slots directly into existing mounts without touching a cable, a wire, or a line of vehicle software. The company announced on April 28, 2026, that its […]View the full article

Largest Turkish defense electronics company posted its strongest quarterly export performance in years on April 28, 2026 — and the numbers behind ASELSAN’s first-quarter results suggest a company that has moved well beyond its domestic market roots. ASELSAN, the most valuable company listed on Borsa İstanbul, reported inflation-adjusted revenue of 34.3 billion Turkish lira for […]View the full article

General Dynamics showed up to Modern Day Marine 2026 with three business units, two booth numbers, and enough hardware to stock a small army — from a next-generation 8×8 reconnaissance vehicle with a 30mm cannon to an assault bridge mounted on an unmanned ground vehicle scheduled to begin testing in July. The company’s presence at […]View the full article

Two unmanned systems companies have combined GPS-denied mapping with radiation detection in a single integrated package — giving CBRN teams the ability to see inside contaminated spaces in three dimensions, in real time, without sending a person in. Emesent and Teledyne FLIR Defense announced a partnership that puts Emesent’s Hovermap LiDAR payload onto Teledyne FLIR’s […]View the full article

Textron Systems and its subsidiary Howe & Howe pulled the wraps off a new unmanned ground vehicle at Modern Day Marine on April 28, 2026 — a wheeled robotic platform built specifically around the Marine Corps’ vision of how autonomous systems should fight alongside its existing armored fleet. The vehicle is called the RIPSAW M1, […]View the full article

A NASCAR team just rolled a six-wheeled military platform onto the Modern Day Marine show floor — and it already has a Lockheed Martin missile test on its resume. Richard Childress Racing Enterprises, LLC, known across motorsport as the organization behind one of NASCAR’s most storied racing programs, brought its 6-Wheeled Adaptable Platform to Modern […]View the full article

Patriot3, a Virginia-based small business that has spent years building specialized equipment for special operations forces and law enforcement worldwide, brought its full maritime and ground operations portfolio to Modern Day Marine this week — sharing a booth with Canadian sensor specialist Shark Marine Technologies and putting some of its most ambitious platforms in front […]View the full article

American Rheinmetall brought a full slate of unmanned systems and next-generation squad weapon systems to Modern Day Marine. The centerpiece of the display is Rheinmetall’s Mission Master Silent Partner Hotel, designated MMSP-H, a fully autonomous ground vehicle that operates on land and water. The platform carries 2,200 pounds of payload on land and 880 pounds […]View the full article

Two separate contracts awarded within days of each other are pouring more than $163 million into the Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll — the remote Pacific range where the U.S. military tests ballistic missiles, tracks reentry vehicles, and validates the interceptors designed to shoot them down. The more recent award, dated April 27, 2026, […]View the full article

Japan’s Defense Minister met with the team behind one of the country’s more unconventional defense startups — a company building military drones out of cardboard — and the conversation signals where Tokyo thinks its unmanned future is headed. Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s Minister of Defense, held a meeting with representatives of Air Kamui, a startup that […]View the full article

Finnish-made Sisu GTP 4×4 armored vehicles have appeared in the inventory of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, a development that raises immediate questions about how they got there — because Finland has never publicly announced transferring them. Ukrainian military historian Andriy Kharuk first reported the appearance of the Sisu GTP 4×4 in Ukrainian Special Operations Forces […]View the full article

Spain unveiled the industrial blueprint for its next generation of fighter pilot training on April 28, 2026, as an Airbus-led consortium presented the full programme structure for the Spanish Air and Space Force’s new Integrated Combat Training System — a contract awarded in December 2025 that will retire the country’s aging F-5 fleet and replace […]View the full article