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Covering the future of defense — one breakthrough at a time. 🚀
Joined February 2025
DZYNE Technologies launches the Dronebuster Power Up Program, enabling users of earlier models, including Block 3, to upgrade to the latest Block 4 variant🌀.
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DZYNE’s Dronebuster Block 4 adds long-range spoofing, forcing hostile UAVs up to 4 kilometers backward.
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India carries out the maiden flight test of its Integrated Air Defence Weapon System, a homegrown shield that blends missiles with a directed-energy laser🛡️.
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India’s IADWS integrates quick-reaction missiles, short-range interceptors, and a high-energy laser to counter diverse aerial threats with precision.
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Florida-based Assured Space Access Technologies is rolling out the CapLink Array, a next-generation phased array antenna built to do more than one job at once💡.
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CapLink Array is a phased array antenna uniting radar, space comms, and missile defense with a wide bandwidth.
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Once just a rumor, China’s HQ-29 missile defense system finally surfaces, believed to be capable of intercepting ballistic missiles at high altitudes and potentially targeting satellites in low Earth orbit🚀.
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HQ-29 is China’s high-altitude interceptor, targeting ballistic missiles and satellites, mounted on a six-axle launcher with twin canisters, and reaching beyond 500 kilometers.
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UAE-based defense conglomerate EDGE completes a field trial of the MIRSAD-X, a multi-spectral surveillance and targeting system capable of seeing across visible and invisible light👁️.
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EDGE’s MIRSAD-X integrates gyro-stabilized optics, thermal imaging, safe laser ranging, and multi-spectral sensors for continuous day-and-night target tracking.
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The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine releases details of a Russian drone modified to hook into mobile networks, turning cell towers into control relays 📲.
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Russian LTE drone recovered by Ukraine features dual LTE modems, live-video streaming, FPV strike capability, jamming-resistant navigation, and extensive Chinese components.
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US defense company Eureka Naval Craft is teaming up with Singapore’s Strategic Marine to build a new class of modular warships in Asia🚤.
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Aircat Bengal MC is a 36-meter surface effect ship carrying 40 tons, hitting 50+ knots, ranging 1,000 nautical miles, and reconfiguring for missions from troop lift to EW.
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California startup Grid Aero emerges from stealth with the Lifter-Lite, an autonomous cargo drone it dubs “the pickup truck of the skies"🛩️.
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Lifter-Lite drone is a heavy-lift, long-range autonomous cargo aircraft designed to carry thousands of pounds across contested regions.
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Aerospace giant @Airbus completes its first autonomous helicopter flight test using @shieldaitech Hivemind autonomy system🚁.
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Airbus’ H145 helicopter completed autonomous takeoff, landing, and mission control using Shield AI’s Hivemind system integrated into the Helionix suite.
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California-based @elroyair pulls off a key milestone with its Chaparral cargo drone, successfully shifting from vertical takeoff to forward, wingborne flight in a series of trials 🛫.
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Chaparral’s hybrid-electric cargo drone lifts 300 pounds, transitions from vertical to wingborne flight, boosting efficiency, range, and autonomous delivery reliability.
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The French Army introduces the PROTEUS Standard 1, a 20mm automatic gun mount positioned as a modernized response to drones and remotely guided munitions⚡.
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France’s PROTEUS Standard 1 upgrades the AA53 cannon with infrared optics, digital targeting, and 20mm firepower for cost-effective drone defense.
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Israeli firm @DFendSolutions launches EnforceAir PLUS, an AI-powered counter-drone system that fuses cyber takeover, radar detection, and optional jamming into one compact platform🚁.
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EnforceAir PLUS is a multi-layered counter-drone system that fuses RF cyber takeover, radar detection, and optional jamming for layered defense.
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Turkish defense contractor @MSB_ASFAT unveils the design of the TF-2000, the country’s first indigenous air and missile defense destroyer🛡️.
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TF-2000 is Turkey's first air and missile defense destroyer, armed with CAFRAD AESA radar to defeat guided and ballistic threats.
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Ukrainian firm Fold is developing a fiber-optic first-person view drone that could fly nearly 100 kilometers, doubling the reach of current models🛫.
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Ukraine’s Fold is building a fiber-optic FPV drone with 100-km range, immune to jamming, and hard to stop.
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Florida-based firm HEKA expands its product portfolio, rolling out new aerospace and defense systems designed to meet today’s fast-moving operational challenges🚀.
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HEKA expands its aerospace and defense lineup with next-gen systems for faster, precise simulation, power, navigation, communications, and propulsion.
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The British Royal Navy achieves a technological first: taking control of a submarine drone from another continent🌊.
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Excalibur, a 19-ton submarine drone, showcases modular mission systems, encrypted links, acoustic sensors, and electric propulsion for covert naval operations.
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The latest and most advanced iteration of Clemson University’s Deep Orange project rolls out: a rugged, all-terrain rescue vehicle built for disaster relief and military rescue missions🚐.
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The Deep Orange rescue vehicle with 350 km range, AI hazard detection, and semi-autonomous navigation built for disaster relief and military missions.
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Taiwan is advancing development of a long-range cruise missile, dubbed “carrier killer,” to reinforce its naval defenses🚀.
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Taiwan’s new “carrier killer” cruise missile boasts 1,000-km range, enhanced stealth, and radars to detect targets while evading interception.
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Taiwan introduces two new indigenous drones and a wheeled tank prototype, signaling a bolder push toward self-reliant defense capabilities🛡️.
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The two indigenous drones and a D3 wheeled tank prototype highlight Taiwan's advances in homegrown defense and asymmetric warfare.
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The US Army demonstrates a “first-of-its-kind” aerial strike: one drone taking down another mid-flight🚁.
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US Army tests armed FPV SkyRaider quadcopter with claymore mine, achieving first drone-on-drone takedown and reusable counter-drone potential.
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