Military Drones

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence has formalized an NT$26.9 billion (approximately $847 million) contract with the United States to procure over 2,000 tube-launched loitering munitions and reconnaissance drones from Anduril Industries. The procurement covers 1,554 Altius-700M strike platforms and 478 Altius-600 ISR surveillance airframes, anchoring Taipei’s transition toward low-cost, high-density asymmetric denial in the Taiwan

Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB) confirmed this week that it successfully engaged and defeated three hostile unmanned aerial systems operating along the U.S.-Mexico border. The engagements were executed using the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL), a directed-energy platform developed by AeroVironment. The shootdowns mark one of the first confirmed domestic operational deployments of high-energy

Moving 500 pounds of munitions or blood across 300 miles of contested airspace using an $80 million CH-47 Chinook or a crewed UH-60 Black Hawk is an expensive, tactically inefficient risk. The United States Army has recognized that burning aviation fuel and risking flight crews for routine tactical resupply in hostile operational environments makes little

Lucknow startup Kawa UAV completed the maiden flight of Divyastra Mk3, a jet-powered loitering munition it calls India’s first fully indigenous design in the category.

Larsen and Toubro used its Bengaluru Manthan Drone Demo Day to unveil a new high altitude RPAS and a collaborative autonomy framework, signaling where the drone industry actually needs to go next.