General VanHerck joined D-Fend’s Advisory Board in October 2025. General VanHerck retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2024 after a distinguished career, culminating as
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
C-UAS robotic ground vehicles – Ukraine, Russia field units while the West watches and waits
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes For battlefield commanders it is a powerful image: fleets of robotic vehicles charging around the battlefield autonomously identifying airborne threats and using
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Reducing pilot error in drone losses – new Moonrock insurance company white paper
Pilot error accounts for over 85% of all drone operational losses and is the most cited cause in claims, according to a new white paper
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“Ukraine’s Contra Drone develops C-UAS ground robotic system NEO”
Ukraine’s Pravda news source reports that Ukrainian company Contra-Drone has developed a wheeled ground robot equipped with an expanded electronic warfare system, capable of protecting
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EHang completes pilotless EH216-S eVTOL UTM-integrated first-responder trial flights in Zaragoza
China eVTOL developer EHang reports it has completed point-to-point urban flights of its EH216-S pilotless eVTOL in the city heart of Zaragoza, Spain, “representing the
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Blighter launches enhanced tracker for improved C-UAS radar performance
Blighter has announced it has added a proprietary dynamic radar target tracker module to its BlighterNexus AI-assisted connectivity and processing hub. “BlighterNexus Track is designed
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“Ukraine’s General Cherry launches uprated version of its C-UAS AIR interceptor”
Ukraine’s Defender Media reports Ukraine’s General Cherry has released an updated version of its first interceptor drone, Air — the General Cherry Air Pro. The UAV
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VisionWave, BladeRanger partner to develop space-based C-UAS system Argus
VisionWave Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of VisionWave Holdings, has announced that it has begun R&D on Argus, a space-enabled AI counter drone system (C-UAS)
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Innov’ATM reports U-space service progress in Niu.Link medical drone delivery programme
Innov’ATM reports in a Linkedin post it has just taken an important step forward in the Niu.link programme with a test flight campaign at Aeropuerto
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“Regulatory conservatism, inertia and legacy thinking – UTM’s struggle to make it to market”
Unmanned Airspace speaks to Koen De Vos, Secretary General of the Global Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) Association (GUTMA). GUTMA’s Harmonized Skies event has recently concluded
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