🔫 Armed quadcopter with M250 machine gun passes firing test

Airbus and Kratos completed the first European flight of the U740 Valkyrie in Northern Europe, meeting every objective, including rocket-assisted takeoff and maneuvers up to Mach 0.8.

The 30-foot uncrewed jet has an internal weapons bay and over 3,000 miles of range, and can fly autonomously or under command of crewed fighters like the Eurofighter.

Next tests add Airbus's MARS mission system, keeping the team on track to deliver a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) to Germany and other European forces by 2029.

L3Harris began delivering VAMPIRE counter-unmanned systems to the US Army, with first units arriving within two months of the service's $106M order.

The self-contained system pairs reconnaissance with precision strike against drones and has logged more than 350,000 operational hours in European combat since 2023.

A dedicated VAMPIRE production facility opened in Huntsville, Alabama, earlier this year, positioning L3Harris to scale output as domestic and global counter-drone demand grows.

General Dynamics Mission Systems flew its MO-Nav receiver aboard Stratolaunch's reusable Talon-A, navigating without GPS above Mach 5 with the Army's Aviation and Missile Center.

The single-board card draws on multiple satellite constellations, signals of opportunity, and other timing sources to hold course when GPS is denied or unavailable.

GD says programs can outpace new threats through software upgrades rather than hardware swaps, targeting one of the joint force's largest capability gaps.

Sig Sauer and Israel Aerospace Industries completed a firing test of the Fire Storm 250, a quadcopter that engaged targets from the air using an M250 machine gun.

The drone flies for two hours, carries 200 rounds and a 53-pound remote weapon station, and keeps a human operator in control of every engagement decision.

With M250 fielding expected in the first half of 2027, the platform offers small units a vertical-takeoff armed drone built for austere sites with limited support.

Army Cyber Command's Task Force Lexington has mapped out an entire Cyber Protection Team of AI agents, now operating inside the Army's portion of the DoD network.

Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank said each agent is treated like a basic human operator, with people checking and retraining its work, and none has strayed so far.

The Army will name two Project Griffin winners Friday, picked from over 100 submissions, to build a network-defense agent ecosystem run by ARCYBER's Task Force Secure.

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