Teledyne FLIR unveiled Black Recon, a system whose three sub-450-gram drones launch from manned ground vehicles, run reconnaissance, then return to the launcher to dock and recharge.

Each drone flies for up to an hour at speeds of up to 55 miles per hour, and the firm has already signed two unnamed European customers.

US Army trials are expected later this year, with deliveries from 2027 and planned modules adding lethality payloads and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) detection sensors.

The United States and Iran agreed to a framework to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with a memorandum of understanding due to be signed Friday in Switzerland.

The pact calls for permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, beginning Monday night, though it defers talks on Tehran's nuclear program.

The framework, which followed strikes that began in February and roiled energy markets, brought relief to oil prices but still hinges on a durable halt to fighting in Lebanon.

Thales launched the LGR275 Proxy, a 70mm laser-guided rocket fitted with a new light detection and ranging (LiDAR) proximity sensor, specifically designed to engage enemy drones.

The sensor activates near the target and addresses the limits of laser designation in rain; the rocket will feature in Thales's layered air defense system, SkyDefender.

Thales Belgium aims to produce 20,000 rockets annually by 2028, roughly 100 per day, more than doubling its planned output to meet demand in the Middle East.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) opened its ExPEDitions program, soliciting rechargeable batteries with five to ten times current energy density for drones, ground vehicles, and other gear.

The solicitation targets cells with capacities above 2 kilowatt-hours per kilogram, runs for 36 months across two phases, and anticipates multiple awards under prototype Other Transaction Agreements.

Abstracts are due June 26 and full proposals August 19, with a target program start of January 2027 and an emphasis on non-traditional vendors.

Shield AI and Destinus demonstrated autonomous collaborative strike on the Destinus Hornet, a counter-drone interceptor, in a full-mission flight exercise in Segovia, Spain.

The tests validated Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy for coordination and in-flight adaptation in contested airspace, exercising terrain following, in-flight target updates, and autonomous terminal maneuvers.

The phase builds toward integrating Hivemind on the Destinus Ruta, a low-cost turbojet strike platform designed to penetrate GPS-denied environments by following terrain.

The United States has yet to determine how it will remove nuclear materials from Iran once both countries sign documents formally ending their war, a senior US official said Friday.

The official put the odds of a memorandum of understanding being signed this month at 80 to 85 percent, while cautioning that the materials are volatile and hard to extract.

Resolving the removal logistics looms as a central test of whether the framework holds, even as both sides signal a deal is near.

Anthropic disabled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide after the US issued an export-control directive barring foreign nationals, including the company's own foreign-national employees, from accessing them.

The order, received June 12, stemmed from a reported jailbreak concern; Anthropic called it a narrow, non-universal issue and is working to restore access.

Its other models, including Claude, remain available, but the move escalates a running dispute between Anthropic and the administration over control of frontier AI.

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