The first live missile shot from a US robotic wingman came ten months after first flight and ran on Anduril's own Lattice software, in the middle of a three-way autonomy contest the Air Force decides by summer 2027.
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NATO picks Anduril's Lattice for air command trial against Palantir and Athea
NATO is testing the $61 billion startup's AI software as the data backbone for air operations across 32 nations, with one of three platforms winning long-term implementation.
USA · Europe · Autonomy
Danish wildfire spin-out Robotto says its GPS-free autonomy guides 5,000 Ukrainian strike drones
Camera-only autonomy built to map wildfires now guides Ukrainian strike drones through Russian GPS jamming, and the 12-person Danish firm behind it is headed into NATO's accelerator pipeline.
Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
Rheinmetall's new Unterlüß plant sends its first 155mm shells to Ukraine
Europe's newest shell factory is feeding the front within a year of opening, the same week a Pentagon watchdog found America's newest 155mm plant has yet to produce a usable part.
Europe · Ukraine · Rheinmetall
Dassault and Harmattan AI fly radar-hunting NAMIB drone with a Rafale F4
Six months after development began, a startup-built electronic-warfare payload on a drone geolocated a radar and cued a Rafale F4 for a simulated strike, the manned-unmanned SEAD chain France wants for its next fighter standard.
Europe · Autonomy · Dassault Aviation
Helsing picks West Virginia for its first US factory, targeting 2,000 HX-2 strike drones a month
One day after closing a $1.8 billion round at an $18 billion valuation, Helsing is buying its way into the US industrial base with a West Virginia plant for its Ukraine-fielded HX-2, before it holds a single US contract.
Europe · Autonomy · Helsing
Three Saronic Corsairs carried out the first US sea-drone combat strike, CENTCOM says
CENTCOM named the platform behind the first combat strike by American sea drones: three Saronic-built Corsairs hit Iran's Bandar Abbas naval port on July 12.
USA · Iran · Naval
Camera-only autonomy built to map wildfires now guides Ukrainian strike drones through Russian GPS jamming, and the 12-person Danish firm behind it is headed into NATO's accelerator pipeline.
Europe's newest shell factory is feeding the front within a year of opening, the same week a Pentagon watchdog found America's newest 155mm plant has yet to produce a usable part.
Berlin is paying about 90 million euros to put Auterion's Skynode S terminal guidance on 50,000 of Skyfall's Shrike FPV drones, one of the largest known Western drone orders for Kyiv.
Ten nations adopted Fire Point's FREYJA as Europe's anti-ballistic program, France licensed Aster and SCALP production inside Ukraine, and five companies signed on to build the layer above it. The air-defense pipeline just reversed direction.
Russia suspended shipping across the Sea of Azov after Ukrainian drones hit 105 vessels in eight days. The blockade was imposed without a single major warship, and the bill is landing on wheat, fuel and the shadow fleet.
Russia can't bomb the factories arming Ukraine, so it targets the will behind them: a 50,000-account bot network, Kremlin money in the AfD, and Germans recruited to spy and set fires.
A $50,000 drone flew 2,500 kilometers to Omsk and completed a target list Kyiv worked through for two years. Reach is no longer the problem. What remains is a race between repair crews and strike tempo, and a second front against the tankers that move whatever Russia still refines.
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