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Archer Aviation Midnight eVTOL Logs 200 Miles Across San Francisco Bay Airspace

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Archer Aviation has wrapped up the Northern California phase of its nationwide demonstration tour, logging more than 200 flight miles with its piloted Midnight electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft across the San Francisco Bay Area. The campaign focused on evaluating how the production-intent air taxi operates inside complex, high-density terminal airspace. Operations culminated […]

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Archer Aviation Midnight eVTOL flying over San Francisco Bay with Alcatraz Island in background

Beam Global Acquires ScoutDI for $24M to Scale Tethered Confined-Space Inspection Drones

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Beam Global (Nasdaq: BEEM) has executed a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire Norwegian drone developer ScoutDI AS for approximately $24 million in cash, common stock, and earn-out incentives. The transaction transitions ScoutDI’s tethered indoor inspection architecture into Beam’s domestic and European manufacturing facilities, positioning the combined entity to capture industrial and defense inspection demand

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Ideal Aerosmith Enters Defense Market with Long-Range Troublemaker Strike Drone

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Ideal Aerosmith, an 88-year-old precision manufacturing and motion testing supplier based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has transitioned into direct defense production with the debut of Troublemaker. The aircraft is a Group 3 uncrewed aerial system engineered for long-range kinetic strike, persistent surveillance, and electronic decoy roles in contested operational environments. Specifications and Aerodynamic Architecture

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Pentagon Expands Drone Dominance Program with 1,320 Additional Ukrainian F10 FPV Drones

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The United States Department of Defense has placed a follow-on order for 1,320 F10 strike FPV quadcopters from Ukrainian manufacturer F-Drones under the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance initiative. The order expands upon an initial batch of 2,000 units delivered in July 2026, bringing total US military procurement of the platform to 3,320 units. Non-Chinese Supply Chain

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Northrop Grumman Completes First Autonomous Flight of YFQ-48A Talon Blue

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Northrop Grumman completed the maiden flight of its YFQ-48A Talon Blue uncrewed combat demonstrator on October 3, 2026, at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The aircraft executed all mission phases autonomously, including taxi, takeoff, navigation maneuvers, and landing, without human pilot intervention. Autonomous Flight Profile and Mojave Trials Bearing civil registration N444LX,

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Northrop Grumman YFQ-48A Talon Blue autonomous combat drone in flight over Mojave

Textron Aerosonde Completes First 150-Nautical-Mile Vertiport Transit in Commercial Airspace

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Textron Systems Corporation and the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech have completed the first uncrewed aircraft transit between two vertiports through commercial civilian airspace. The cross-state demonstration covered nearly 150 nautical miles using the Aerosonde Mk. 4.7 VTOL platform, linking research facilities in western Virginia to industrial assembly hubs in the east. Flight Profile

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DeltaQuad Unveils Evo-LE Electric VTOL Drone with Eight-Hour Endurance

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Dutch unmanned systems manufacturer DeltaQuad has unveiled the Evo-LE, a long-endurance variant of its electric fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) platform. Engineered specifically for persistent intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) operations, the aircraft extends flight duration to eight hours on purely electric propulsion. Drivetrain and Architecture Modifications Reaching an eight-hour flight profile

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