The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance programme was designed to buy small attack drones the way a supermarket buys stock: test the products, rank them and place volume orders with the winners. With XTEND’s award, the shelf now carries prices. On 13 October the Israeli-American company announced a $40.5m order for 6,000 Striker systems, its reward for finishing among the leaders in the close-quarters battle category of the programme’s second Gauntlet competition.
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