U.S. Navy Investigates Loss of $220M MQ-4C Triton Drone Over Persian Gulf — EW Attack by Iranian-Operated Systems Suspected
The U.S. Navy is investigating the April 9, 2026 loss of an MQ-4C Triton high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned surveillance drone over the Persian Gulf. Israeli sources suggest the $220 million…
L3Harris Advances Space Domain Awareness in a Domain No One Can Afford to Lose
By: Dawn Zoldi Just as space has moved from a passive communications backdrop to an active warfighting domain, L3Harris Technologies burst forth on the 2026 Space Symposium scene with concrete…
ALL POINTS SECURES NASA PROPERTY FOR SPACECRAFT PROCESSING FACILITIES
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL: All Points Logistics, LLC (All Points) has signed an exclusive agreement with NASA to lease 64 acres at Kennedy Space Center for development of a new, multi-user spacecraft processing and logistics complex designed…
Hall Lidar Launches Low Cost Acoustic Sensing Drone Detection Technology for Counter-UAS systems and Stealth Monitoring
AI-powered platform delivers covert, precise drone detection, using the most advanced acoustic, radar, manufactured in the United States Bozeman, MT (April 15, 2026) — Hall Lidar Inc, a U.S.-based developer…
From Brazil to the World: Speedbird Aero Builds the Airspace Infrastructure To Make Drone Delivery Scale
Certified aircraft, purpose-built droneports, and a battle-tested UTM stack have turned this Latin American startup into a global logistics force. It plans to launch in the United States next. By:…
Voyager Selected by NASA for Seventh Private Astronaut Mission
DENVER–April 15, 2026–Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) has signed an order with NASA for the seventh Private Astronaut Mission to the International Space Station, launching no earlier than 2028. “This award…
WISPR Systems’ SkyScout 2+ Earns Blue UAS List
Approval Validates Platform for Federal and Public Safety Deployment Batesville, Mississippi – April 2026 – WISPR Systems, a U.S.-based manufacturer of secure unmanned aircraft systems, announced today that its SkyScout…
Closing the Data Gap: Why Digital Weather Infrastructure Is the Foundation of the Low-Altitude Economy
By: Clint Harper, Autonomy Global Ambassador – AAM The advanced air mobility (AAM) industry has made remarkable strides. Vehicles navigating the certification process, vertiport networks are being contemplated, and regulatory…
Elbit Systems and Serbia’s Yugoimport Sign Joint Venture to Manufacture Strike Drones and Loitering Munitions
Israeli defense company Elbit Systems has signed a joint venture agreement with Serbian state-owned company Yugoimport-SDPR to establish a joint drone production site in Serbia, a move driven by surging…
From Brazil to the World: Speedbird Aero Builds the Airspace Infrastructure To Make Drone Delivery Scale
Certified aircraft, purpose-built droneports, and a battle-tested UTM stack have turned this Latin American startup into a global logistics force. It plans to launch in the United States next. By:…
The Gulf’s Autonomous Future: The Conflicts, Ambition and Technology Impacting Defence Across the GCC
By Philip Hicks, Autonomy Global Ambassador – U.K. and Middle East The Gulf has discovered that its future security will not be decided in conference rooms, but in machine-speed engagements…
Israel-Iran Drone War: World’s Second Major Drone Conflict
By Arie Egozi | Autonomy Global — Ambassador for Israel The war that erupted on February 28 and concluded with a ceasefire on April 8 has cemented its place in…
Homeland Protection at Speed‑and‑Scale: Lockheed Martin’s Layered Integrated Air and Missile Defense
By: Dawn Zoldi Now that the U.S. is at war, Iran’s missile barrages and drone swarms overseas have turned integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) into a homeland emergency. Lockheed…
Deliveries on Schedule: Quantum Frontline Industries sends first batch of drones to Ukraine
Munich, Germany | Kyiv, Ukraine – 01 April 2026: Quantum Frontline Industries (QFI) has completed production of the first batch of drones. The systems will be delivered to the Armed Forces…
Virtual Sky High Immersion: Aviation Training Gets Real With XR
By Capt. Fahad ibne Masood, MRAeS, Squadron Leader (R) General aviation, aircraft maintenance, military operations, commercial airlines and emerging aviation all have one thing in common: the need for training…
Asymmetric Tactical Edge: How Blue Arrow’s RII Stack Rewrites Battlefield Management
By: Dawn Zoldi When Russia’s full‑scale invasion shattered Ukraine’s sense of normalcy, Blue Arrow co‑founder and CEO Sergii Tereshchenko decided that his Kyiv‑based IT company would stop building training tools…
Spaceflux Selected by MDA Space to Deliver Optical Systems for Canadian Space Surveillance Programme
LONDON, UK — Spaceflux, the London-based specialist in space domain awareness and space intelligence, has been selected as the optical systems provider by MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA) (NYSE: MDA)…
Protecting the Skies: Europe’s Layered Approach to Counter-UAS
Across Europe, the skies have become increasingly complex. Drones now share what was once the exclusive domain of commercial aviation and military operations. From infrastructure inspection and agriculture to emergency…
MGI Engineering Successfully Launches TigerShark in Strategic Partnership with Auterion
Historic test marks Europe’s most significant advance in autonomous deep strike capability in over a decade Oxfordshire, UK – 01 April 2026 – MGI Engineering Ltd (MGI) today announced the…
ePropelled unveils expansion at Global Innovation Centre in Coventry as it accelerates toward producing more than one million propulsion systems annually by 2027
Strategic development of new sovereign European Systems Hub Coventry, UK | 20 March 2026 ePropelled opened its new Global Innovation Centre in Coventry on 20 March, a major expansion that…
ePropelled Announces Largest Expansion of Motor Controllers (ESCs) and Intelligent Power Systems, Strengthening Electronic Propulsion Leadership
LACONIA, N.H./ COVENTRY/ CHENNAI – 4 March 2026, ePropelled, a global innovator in electric propulsion and power management solutions for uncrewed vehicles and advanced mobility platforms, today announced its largest expansion…
Autonomous Tech: Gold Rush, Geopolitics or Europe’s New Industrial Era?
By Philip Hicks, Autonomy Global Ambassador – U.K. & Middle East In Europe, autonomous systems have become the backbone of sovereignty, industrial capability and defence readiness. A continent that once…
Autonomy in Action: Top 10 Use Cases for Drones and Robotics in Energy and Utilities
By: Sylvia Ibarra, Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition (Autonomy Global Media Partner) As energy systems grow more complex and operational margins tighten, drones, robotics and AI continue to move from…
Small & Exquisite Vs. Big & Bold: Europe’s Defence Pivot In The Drone Age
By: Philip Hicks, AG Ambassador for the U.K. & Middle East Asymmetric warfare is rewriting Europe’s budgets, factories and battlefield playbooks.Europe’s defence spending has surged to historic highs, but the…
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Human-In-The-Loop Beats Full Autonomy in Africa – Here’s Why
By: Peter Karanja, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Africa Autonomy is easy to sell on a slide deck. I have seen potential customers light up when they learn that artificial intelligence…
Egypt Reportedly Signs 400 Million Dollar Deal for Chinese WJ-700 Combat Drones, Expanding Long-Range Strike and Red Sea Surveillance Capabilities
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel Egypt has reportedly concluded a major unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) deal, signing a contract valued at about 400 million dollars…
International Drone Regulations: Key Updates On BVLOS, UTM and Use Cases from Europe, Canada, Australia and Africa
By: Dawn Zoldi Navigating the world of drone regulations can be challenging. At this year’s Law-Tech Connect, industry leaders and attorneys from Australia, Africa, Canada and Europe highlighted the international…
Landmark Year for Advanced Air Mobility in Africa: Milestones, Momentum and Challenges Ahead
By: Peter Karanja, AG Africa Ambassador Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is becoming a reality across Africa, and with it, new aviation technologies across the continent. In 2025, Africa claimed a…
Global Autonomous Tech Startups: Perspectives from Africa, Asia & Europe
By: Eno Umoh, Business & Entrepreneurship Ambassador Expert voices from three continents gathered to talk about the state of autonomous tech startups and provided a real-world look at how startups…
Autonomous Drone-in-a-Box Solutions: Real Global Efficiencies and Industry Insights from Commercial UAV Expo 2025
By: Juan B. Plaza, AG Operational Safety Ambassador The Commercial UAV Expo 2025 panel “How Real-World Efficiencies Are Being Enabled by Drone-in-a-Box (DIB) Solutions” showcased autonomous DIB solutions and highlighted…
Safety And Security Before Scale: How African Stakeholders Are Rethinking AAM From Day One
By: Peter Karanja, AG Africa Ambassador As Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) takes shape in Africa, stakeholders aren’t rushing to scale before figuring out the safety and security aspect. Instead, they…
DIU’s Project G.I. Challenge: Accelerating the Next Generation of Uncrewed Systems for the Modern Battlefield
Emerging threats have rewritten the rules of warfare. In conflicts from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, uncrewed systems (UxS)—drones, ground robots, and electronic warfare (EW) platforms—have become essential tools for modern…
Elbit Systems and Serbia’s Yugoimport Sign Joint Venture to Manufacture Strike Drones and Loitering Munitions
Israeli defense company Elbit Systems has signed a joint venture agreement with Serbian state-owned company Yugoimport-SDPR to establish a joint drone production site in Serbia, a move driven by surging…
Israeli AI Firm Axon Vision Completes EDGE SA Delivery to Western European Army in First Major International Deployment
Axon Vision, an Israeli company, has completed deliveries of its EDGE SA AI-driven situational awareness system to a Western European army. This marks the company’s first major deployment with a…
Arrow 3 AI-Powered Green Pine Radar Achieves Over 90% Kill Rate Against Ballistic Missiles
The Israeli Arrow 3 air defense system’s exceptional kill rate against Iranian ballistic missiles is directly linked to artificial intelligence (AI) integrated into its “Green Pine” radar, a capability now…
From Brazil to the World: Speedbird Aero Builds the Airspace Infrastructure To Make Drone Delivery Scale
Certified aircraft, purpose-built droneports, and a battle-tested UTM stack have turned this Latin American startup into a global logistics force. It plans to launch in the United States next. By:…
bitsensing Signs MOU with Stress Solution to Build an Integrated Healthcare Model
bitsensing’s radar-based sleep and occupancy sensing technology to be combined with Stress Solution’s HRV-based personalized sound technology to implement an integrated healthcare model The two companies will jointly participate in the development of…
The Gulf’s Autonomous Future: The Conflicts, Ambition and Technology Impacting Defence Across the GCC
By Philip Hicks, Autonomy Global Ambassador – U.K. and Middle East The Gulf has discovered that its future security will not be decided in conference rooms, but in machine-speed engagements…
Israel-Iran Drone War: World’s Second Major Drone Conflict
By Arie Egozi | Autonomy Global — Ambassador for Israel The war that erupted on February 28 and concluded with a ceasefire on April 8 has cemented its place in…
Drones Over There, Headed Over Here? Operation Spider Web, Baghdad’s FPV Strike and Barksdale’s Swarms Should Shake the U.S. Awake
From Ukraine’s deep‑strike “Operation Spider Web” to Iran‑backed FPV drones blowing up U.S. assets around Baghdad, the modern drone threat has become normalized across Eurasia in just a few years….
From Brazil to the World: Speedbird Aero Builds the Airspace Infrastructure To Make Drone Delivery Scale
Certified aircraft, purpose-built droneports, and a battle-tested UTM stack have turned this Latin American startup into a global logistics force. It plans to launch in the United States next. By:…
Speedbird and Moya Aero Sign Strategic MoU to ExploreIntegrated Drone Logistics Collaboration.
São José dos Campos — April 13, 2026 — Moya Aero and Speedbird announced today the signing of a nonbinding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore a strategic collaboration aimed…
Speedbird Aero Secures Investment from iFood to Scale Drone Deliveries in Brazil
iFood’s participation is part of a bridge funding round totaling US$5.8 millionRound includes contributions from investment funds from Portugal, US and Brazil.Funds will accelerate growth and expand drone delivery operationsThe…
Drones in Focus: Public Safety, Security Risks and Global Drone Developments
Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) have become both silent guardians and illicit specters that span city skylines and shadowy enclaves. The Full Crew newscast recently assembled a panel of drone visionaries—Kaye…
DIU’s Project G.I. Challenge: Accelerating the Next Generation of Uncrewed Systems for the Modern Battlefield
Emerging threats have rewritten the rules of warfare. In conflicts from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, uncrewed systems (UxS)—drones, ground robots, and electronic warfare (EW) platforms—have become essential tools for modern…
2025 eVTOL Market Outlook: Global Leaders, Regulatory Shifts, and the Next Phase of Urban Air Mobility
The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) sector stands at a pivotal inflection point in 2025, shaped by rapid technological advances, regulatory shifts, and a new wave of consolidation and…
Eve Air Mobility and Future Flight Global Sign Letter of Intent for up to 54 eVTOLs Serving Brazil and the United States
Eve Air Mobility (“Eve”) (NYSE: EVEX; EVEXW) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Future Flight Global, a pioneer in electric aircraft for up to 54 electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL)…
UrbanV and Future Flight Global to Launch an Integrated eVTOL Network in Brazil
UrbanV, a global leader in vertiport infrastructure, and Future Flight Global (FFG), a leading operator of electric aircraft, both pioneers in the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) ecosystem, announce additional market…
ANELLO Photonics and Q-CTRL Announce Strategic Collaboration to Redefine Resilient Navigation for UAVs in GPS-Denied Environments
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SYDNEY, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ANELLO Photonics, the creator of the Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOG™) and a leader in solid-state, high-precision inertial navigation systems, and…
Geo Week 2026: Emesent Launches the Emesent GX1, an All-in-One SLAM LiDAR, RTK and 360° Imagery Scanner
Industry first: GX1 delivers independently validated 5-10mm global accuracy, providing surveyors, AEC sector with long-awaited mobile scanning speed and survey-grade accuracy they can prove DENVER, 16 February 2026 ―Today at Geo Week, Emesent, a global leader in autonomous mapping technology, launches the Emesent GX1, the world’s most accurate integrated Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and Real-Time Kinematic…
AI-Powered SMASH 3000 Fire Control System Selected for Australian Army Counter-Drone Evaluation
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel The Israeli company SMARTSHOOTER has brought artificial intelligence (AI) to the small arms battlefield with its SMASH family of fire control…
International Drone Regulations: Key Updates On BVLOS, UTM and Use Cases from Europe, Canada, Australia and Africa
By: Dawn Zoldi Navigating the world of drone regulations can be challenging. At this year’s Law-Tech Connect, industry leaders and attorneys from Australia, Africa, Canada and Europe highlighted the international…
Lessons from the Black Sea: Maritime Uncrewed Systems, Strategic Doctrine and the Future of AUKUS
By: Philip Hicks, AG U.K. Ambassador* In the Black Sea, Ukraine’s daring use of small unmanned surface vessels (sUSVs) against the Russian Navy drives a new chapter in naval warfare–…
Mapping Wildfire Resilience With GIS: Perspectives from the ESRI Safety and Security Summit
As wildfires become more frequent and severe across the globe, the need for advanced tools to predict, detect and respond to these disasters has become increasingly critical. At the 2025…
FlyFreely: The Software Powering Drone Program Success
Drone operations are no longer a novelty—they’re a necessity for organizations that want to stay competitive, compliant and safe. Drawing on insights from FlyFreely co-founder Dr David Cole’s recent appearance…
DIU’s Project G.I. Challenge: Accelerating the Next Generation of Uncrewed Systems for the Modern Battlefield
Emerging threats have rewritten the rules of warfare. In conflicts from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, uncrewed systems (UxS)—drones, ground robots, and electronic warfare (EW) platforms—have become essential tools for modern…
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