Shield AI revealed X-BAT, a Group 5 unmanned “drone fighter” designed to take off and land vertically and operate with the firm’s Hivemind autonomy in comms-denied environments.
California-based Seasats debuted Quickfish, a 17-ft unmanned surface vessel designed for high-speed maritime interception and positive video ID of targets at sea.
U.S. Special Operations Command’s SCBDS effort seeks a small, jam-proof, fire-and-forget missile that Group 2/3 drones can carry to enable multiple autonomous strikes.
Skyborne’s Controller-Operated Direct-Action Quadruped (CODiAQ) blends autonomous navigation with AI-powered targeting to support precise engagements in urban, forested, and uneven terrain.
The 101st Airborne’s RAID unveiled ABE 1.01, a modular UAS built at Fort Campbell with Blue UAS–vetted, U.S.-made components.
V2X’s Tempest is a modular mobile-fires vehicle pairing twin Longbow launchers with a precision radar to counter drones and low-flying aircraft.
Aselsan’s GÖKSUR 100-N system achieved its first live intercept of a sea-skimming target, using an imaging-infrared seeker to hit a drone just above wave-tops at ~11 km range during the trial.
Anduril introduced Eagle Eye, a modular head-mounted system with variants ranging from lightweight AR glasses to a fully sealed ballistic helmet.
Silvus Technologies unveiled the StreamCaster NEXUS, a rugged chest-mounted tactical networking system offering high-speed data, secure communications, and battlefield resilience under electronic attack.
Florida International University’s SHIELD introduces a mid-flight cyber defense that detects and counters attacks on drones in real time, enabling missions to continue during active intrusions.
Anduril and Raytheon completed a static-fire of an advanced solid rocket motor featuring a Highly Loaded Grain configuration.
Lantronix’s Open-Q 5165RB System-on-Module brings edge-AI compute directly onto Gremsy’s stabilized UAV payloads, paired with Teledyne’s Hadron 640R dual-thermal camera.
