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Ukraine's defence ministry says Starlink and Starshield are stable again above 400km/h after ten days of restrictions on fast-moving platforms. Nobody has said why the limits went on or how they came off, which is the part planners should note.
FORT Robotics has secured about $20m more from existing investors, led by Tiger Global, ahead of a planned Nasdaq listing via Newbury Street II. It wants to be the first public company built on physical-AI safety, a layer Nvidia also covets.
The US Navy has awarded Applied Intuition an initial $25m to field its Intelligent Perception System on five Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The sensor fusion is useful; the larger change is that warships start collecting data to retrain the models that run on them.
At Prague’s Future Forces exhibition the British start-up showed Starhammer, a Mach 2 interceptor aimed at cruise missiles, while Czech KBP displayed a jet drone in the Shahed mould. Neither came with a price, and price is the whole argument.
New licensing rules cover specified propulsion components, aircraft and associated technology from 18 November. Precise technical thresholds and simplified procedures make the effect on suppliers more complicated than a general ban on Chinese drone parts.
A company official says the new line will open in November for an enlarged aircraft. The proposed payload increase extends Turkey’s uncrewed-aircraft ambitions, with flight testing and delivery still ahead.
Hung Cao says the carrier group deployed with an uncrewed surface vessel on 8 October. Leidos had already announced Seahawk’s operational role in September, making the latest statement part of a longer integration story.
Industry sources have linked the British K3 Scout to a strike at Sochi. The account gives buyers a possible combat reference, while leaving the craft’s configuration, control mode and damage assessment unconfirmed.
A Navy demonstration uses cameras and onboard guidance to recover a drone without satellite navigation or pilot control. The promise is fewer ship modifications; the next test is dependable operation across a working fleet.
Kratos says it is seeking US permission for local production of the Mighty Hornet IV. The proposed progression from supplied airframes to Taiwanese assembly links affordable drone numbers to technology transfer and manufacturing capability.