The robots really are coming for us. This morning, Germany-based unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) company ARX Robotics unveiled its first combat-capable UGV: Combat Gereon. The company says that the mini, battle-hardened robot-tank was built in a “European-Ukrainian development campaign” and honed with direct feedback from Ukrainian users on the frontline. “[This] system extends the reach […]
Scaling production is hard. Luckily for UK-based unmanned surface vehicle (USV) startup Kraken Technology, they’ve just partnered with German shipbuilding big dog NVL to ramp up manufacturing of their speedboat drones at NVL’s Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg this year. Helps to have friends in high places. Go fast: Kraken’s roots are in manufacturing racing speed […]
Remember when we said everyone wanted a factory of the future? Well, looks like we were right. Yesterday, Alabama-based Performance Drone Works (PDW) announced the official opening of Drone Factory 01 in Huntsville, a “state-of-the-art” production facility that the company says will be able to churn out over 60,000 FPV drones a year. The 90,000 […]
As we mentioned yesterday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump met in the Oval Office, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine had offered to buy about $90B worth of US weapons as part of a deal to end the war with Russia. Plus, the US would buy Ukrainian weapons once they’re cleared for export. The FT […]
Frying them with microwaves, shooting them down, jamming them—c-UAS companies have a growing and creative array of ways to take down drones. But Israeli-American drone-takeover company D-Fend has a novel solution: commandeering them. And in an exclusive release with Tectonic this morning, they rolled out their newest option: EnforceAir PLUS, an amped-up version of the […]
We’ve said it before and we’ve said it again: Sometimes, the most game-changing tech isn’t flash-bang missiles or one-way attack drones. Sometimes, it’s the less sexy stuff needed to get critical supplies—food, ammo, med kit—to the front as quickly and safely as possible. Grid Aero was founded to meet this need. This morning, the autonomous […]
For an industry that hasn’t changed a whole lot in decades, solid rocket motors (SRMs) have had quite a month. A week after Anduril opened its SRM facility in Mississippi, Ursa Major announced yesterday that it has held successful static tests of its SRM on BAE’s APKWS guided missile. Given the critical gap in supply […]
Pew pew is back, baby. This morning, laser communications company Aalyria—a spinoff of Google—announced that their Tightbeam system has achieved two major technical milestones as part of a $7M contract to develop over-the-horizon connectivity with the Navy Research Laboratory: These both represent a major breakthrough in overcoming atmospheric complications in laser communication close to the […]
There’s no shortage of companies promising to automate aviation, but Beacon AI just wants to make the human pilots better. And so far, the DoD is loving it. On Tuesday, the aviation decision-making startup announced it won its twelfth contract, this time a Direct-to-Phase II SBIR with the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). Beacon, […]
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a bit of a legal drama happening in the defense tech world. On August 4, publicly held drone company Red Cat Holdings ($RCAT) filed a lawsuit against drone company Vector Defense (and its co-founder and CTO George Matus) for stealing trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act. Red […]
