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✈️ NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Makes Historic First Flight

✈️ NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Makes Historic First Flight

NASA’s X-59 demonstrator completed its first flight, testing low-sonic-boom signatures and aero/flight regimes to validate technologies aimed at enabling routine overland supersonic flight with reduced environmental impact.

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Dallas Hartley
⚡ The Railgun Returns: General Atomics Unveils a Reinvented Electromagnetic Weapon

⚡ The Railgun Returns: General Atomics Unveils a Reinvented Electromagnetic Weapon

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems is reviving its railgun initiative with new electromagnetic weapons capable of launching tungsten-pellet payloads at hypersonic velocities.

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🎯 “American Shahed”: Griffon’s Low-Cost Kamikaze Strike Drone Pitches Massed One-Way Attack Capacity

🎯 “American Shahed”: Griffon’s Low-Cost Kamikaze Strike Drone Pitches Massed One-Way Attack Capacity

Griffon Aerospace is converting its MQM-172 Arrowhead target drone into a low-cost, one-way strike weapon, pitching a U.S.-made alternative to attritable “Shahed-style” attack drones.

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🔫 Avenger Drone Concept Pairs High-Energy Laser for Counter-Air Missions

🔫 Avenger Drone Concept Pairs High-Energy Laser for Counter-Air Missions

A new Avenger drone variant concept integrates a high-energy laser payload for counter-air and missile defense missions, combining directed energy with traditional munitions for flexible engagement.

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🚤 Saronic & NVIDIA Partner to Accelerate Edge AI Autonomy for Unmanned Naval Vessels

🚤 Saronic & NVIDIA Partner to Accelerate Edge AI Autonomy for Unmanned Naval Vessels

Texas-based Saronic announced a partnership with NVIDIA to integrate high-performance edge computing aboard its unmanned surface vessels, bringing AI model training and inference directly to sea.

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⚔️ Shield AI Unveils X-BAT, a VTOL Stealth Loyal Wingman Drone

⚔️ Shield AI Unveils X-BAT, a VTOL Stealth Loyal Wingman Drone

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.

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🌊 Seasats Unveils High-Speed Interceptor “Quickfish” for Maritime Surface Warfare

🌊 Seasats Unveils High-Speed Interceptor “Quickfish” for Maritime Surface Warfare

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.

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💥 SOCOM Wants a Drone-Launched Fire-and-Forget Missile

💥 SOCOM Wants a Drone-Launched Fire-and-Forget Missile

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.

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🎯 Skyborne Unveils Four-Legged “Marksman” Robot Dog with Modular Lethality

🎯 Skyborne Unveils Four-Legged “Marksman” Robot Dog with Modular Lethality

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.

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🛠️ US Army Rolls Out Soldier-Built Tactical Drone With Rapid 20-Minute Build

🛠️ US Army Rolls Out Soldier-Built Tactical Drone With Rapid 20-Minute Build

The 101st Airborne’s RAID unveiled ABE 1.01, a modular UAS built at Fort Campbell with Blue UAS–vetted, U.S.-made components.

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🔥 V2X “Tempest” Shoot-and-Scoot Platform Aims to Hit Fast, Then Vanish

🔥 V2X “Tempest” Shoot-and-Scoot Platform Aims to Hit Fast, Then Vanish

V2X’s Tempest is a modular mobile-fires vehicle pairing twin Longbow launchers with a precision radar to counter drones and low-flying aircraft.

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Dallas Hartley
🌊 Turkey’s GÖKSUR Scores First Sea-Skimming Kill in Live Test

🌊 Turkey’s GÖKSUR Scores First Sea-Skimming Kill in Live Test

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.

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