Defense Tech
Drone crashes and severed fingers at a $13 billion Silicon Valley military startup
V-BAT has crashed more than 50 times over the past 18 months, a Cessna plane with a Shield AI employee and his child aboard had to take evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision with a V-BAT.
The Beirut trap: Why success in Southern Lebanon may not be enough- opinion
Robel Innovation unveils “Black Raven” counter‑drone system shaped by frontline experience
Shifters: Robots on the frontline
Europe condemns Israel while arms makers buy billions in Israeli weapons - opinion
European politicians retain the power to hold press conferences and vote on symbolic resolutions, but the generals have the power to sign contracts; for now, the generals are winning.
Thirty interceptions a minute: An Israeli startup's drone solution
Omer-based Esh-Tech has developed Dronelight, a low-energy, fast reacting, portable laser interception system.
UK adopts SpaceX's Starshield for military operations, sources say
Britain has started using SpaceX’s Starshield, a militarized version of Starlink, for secure military communications.
From Iron Dome to the final frontier: Hilla Haddad Chmelnik on Israel's defense legacy and the race
Moonshot Space CEO Hilla Haddad Chmelnik wants Israel to become the “FedEx to space” using kinetic launch technology.
Motorola to acquire Israeli leader in counter-drone solutions, in historic $1.5b. deal
Motorola's entry into a definitive agreement to acquire D-Fend, which operates across more than 30 countries with an expected 2026 revenue of $185m., capitalizes on the Safer Skies Act.
Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie team up to strip US-Israel military tech cooperation from defense bill
Khanna, and Massie both said over the weekend that they would seek to remove a provision from the House’s annual defense bill that would expand US-Israeli defense technology cooperation.
XTEND selected for Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program Phase II
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program is one of the largest drone initiatives in US military history, aiming to procure over 200,000 drones by 2027.
Moving beyond Western paradigms: The geopolitical lesson of India’s multi-alignment- opinion
New Delhi operates on the understanding that hard military and economic power cannot be divorced from soft power and personal diplomacy
France bans Israel from defense exhibition, limits Israeli companies to showing defensive weapons
This means that the government and the ministry will be unable to participate in the exhibition or establish a national pavilion at EUROSATORY.
Trump admin. in advanced talks to directly fund US drone firms to boost production - report
People familiar with the deal said it would allow drone makers to scale up production while simultaneously bringing down prices. The funding the US would supply would not be for buying drones
