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At least six countries, most on NATO's Eastern flank, have bought or are buying the $15,000 Merops drone interceptor, a US defense official said. Allies are adding a cheaper layer against Russian incursions, and the Pentagon says it is one part of a wider defence.
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Brig. Gen. Terry Tillis said 1,000 of the roughly 2,000 drones at the Germany exercise were consumable. The Pentagon's Drone Dominance program is spending $1 billion on at least 200,000 drones through 2027.
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Col. Gregory Merkl says the Army has fielded 10,000 drones and is receiving 30,000 more, enough for every squad, while qualified pilots reach only platoon level. The unit that concentrated that expertise is being phased out.
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Lt. Gen. James Isenhower says units were handed unfamiliar systems just as they entered their graded rotations, so the Army now requires new equipment 180 days early to give crews time at home station.
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The Army is paying HII to research sensing, autonomy and cybersecurity for cargo and personnel airdrop over five years. The order does not name JPADS, the self-steering system the Army says lands within 100 meters of its target.
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Army dental leaders argue in professional articles that most major exercises leave dental emergencies out of their casualty scenarios, even though such cases were 19% of treatment at hospitals near the front line in Iraq.
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The identifier that lets data brokers follow one handset from app to app is now disabled on government-issued phones at four US military organisations, after months of pressure from Senator Ron Wyden.
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Northrop's PGK E5 puts anti-jamming into a 155 mm guidance kit that keeps the same fit and form as fielded stock. First deliveries are expected in early 2028, and the accuracy claim comes from Northrop's own testing.
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Anthropic's misuse report describes public transponder identifiers, commercial imagery and vendor vulnerability research being assembled into targeting handbooks, and says separate missile-software requests from Yemen passed its safeguards.
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The authorization names one test aircraft, two blocks of restricted airspace over White Sands and an expiry in August 2027, and the Ramjet-X flight test service Hermeus wants to sell on top of it still needs its own paperwork.
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TERN says its Independently Derived Positioning System will keep Army vehicles located when satellite signals are jammed or spoofed. What the announcement leaves out is any accuracy figure, any vehicle count and any Army voice.
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TERN's $11.26 million contract puts offline positioning and fleet-health monitoring on sensors the Army already owns, on a premise its president states plainly, that battlefield GPS can no longer be assumed.
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Close to 10,000 soldiers fought a mock peer war at Razish with drones and new software layered on top. The general running the experiment says saturating them with kit would cost more in training quality than it buys in data.
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AV's $464.8M award covers 26 thirty-kilowatt LOCUST X3 units over five years, and the requirement underneath it says a minute of full-power lasing buys up to four minutes of waiting before the next one.
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The Chaparral moved medical supplies, food and industrial gear for a week under air traffic control oversight, and the operational numbers a logistics buyer would need to plan a route around it have not been released.
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AeroVironment's $464.8m Enduring-HEL award covers dozens of 30-kilowatt LOCUST X3 units. The step that made the purchase possible was a Department of War safety agreement with the FAA, signed before anyone fired.
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Elroy Air flew spare parts and water jugs out of a busy Louisiana rotorcraft field while controllers sequenced it among crewed traffic, which is a harder thing to arrange than the aircraft, and the FAA administrator put his name to it.
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Dan Driscoll resigned months after the Army's chief of staff was fired, and the acting chief has already disbanded his predecessor's experimental drone battalion.
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At Project Convergence-Capstone 6 the two firms swapped a payload rather than build a vehicle, which was the cheap part. The cost of keeping a forward robot running and getting it back is still unpublished.
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Mara's pre-seed round buys the same number of shots as 35 Anduril Roadrunner-M interceptors. The pitch is that cheap FPV attacks require an equally cheap magazine.
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