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Army Names MV-75 Cheyenne II While Officials Refuse to Commit to First Flight " SOFX
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (480+ words) The U. S. Army officially named its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) the MV-75 Cheyenne II on April 15 at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, declining at the same ceremony to commit to a first flight date or production schedule. " U. S. Army…...
REGENT Flies First Defense WIG Drone in U. S. as Marines Eye Pacific Deployment Decision
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (381+ words) REGENT completed the first U. S. ground-effect flight of its autonomous Squire Seaglider on April 13 in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, in what the company announced as the first flight of a defense-specific wing-in-ground effect (WIG) craft in the United States. " REGENT (@regentcraft)…...
UK Drone Firm That Beat Pentagon Trials Eyes US Move as Defence Funding Deadlock Grinds On " SOFX
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (428+ words) Lord George Robertson, the former NATO secretary general who led the UK's Strategic Defence Review (SDR), warned Tuesday that Britain's national security is "in peril," as a funding deadlock between the Treasury and the Ministry of Defence leaves the country's…...
Alibaba Sellers Offer Shahed Drone Copies for Russia Delivery Despite China's Export Controls " SOFX
2+ week, 3+ day ago (277+ words) The investigation identified four active Shahed-136 copy listings on Alibaba after the platform removed earlier entries openly labeled "cruise missiles" and "suicide attack drones," with prices ranging from approximately $6, 000 to over $40, 000. Two of the active listings named the system as…...
Launch Platforms Recovered Inside Baghdad After Rockets Destroy Iraqi Air Force Transport at Mohammed Alaa Base " SOFX
2+ week, 3+ day ago (420+ words) 122mm Grad rockets fired from Baghdad's eastern outskirts struck the Martyr Mohammed Alaa Air Base, adjacent to Baghdad International Airport, early Monday, destroying an Antonov An-32 B twin-turboprop transport aircraft and causing no casualties, Iraq's Defense Ministry said. The attack began…...
Flight 5342 Footage Surfaces as FAA Bans Visual Separation at High-Traffic Airports " SOFX
2+ week, 3+ day ago (255+ words) The collision, on final approach to DCA in Arlington, Virginia, killed all 67 people aboard the Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet and the Army helicopter. " OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 30, 2026 On January 28, 2025, two Army helicopters entered DCA airspace at an altitude higher than controllers expected,…...
FPV Drones Strike U. S. Black Hawk and Air Defense Radar at Baghdad Base " SOFX
3+ week, 1+ day ago (415+ words) Kamikaze drones operated by an Iranian-backed militia struck a U. S. military Black Hawk helicopter and an air defense radar at Victory Base Complex near Baghdad International Airport. First-person view (FPV) drone footage released by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq on March…...
NORTHCOM's Only Counter-Drone Kit Defeated Drones Over Strategic Base at Start of Epic Fury
3+ week, 1+ day ago (381+ words) U. S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) used its only deployable counter-drone system to detect and defeat small unmanned aircraft over an undisclosed "strategic" U. S. installation in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, according to Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, commander of NORTHCOM and…...
Ukraine Downs Rare $400, 000 Skat-450 M Days After Russia Promoted the Drone's Combat Record " SOFX
3+ week, 3+ day ago (273+ words) Operators from the STRIX unmanned systems detachment of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service destroyed a Russian Skat-450 M reconnaissance drone on March 22, Wild Hornets, the Ukrainian interceptor drone developer, announced on X. STING shoots down a $400, 000 Skat-450 M reconnaissance UAV " " Wild…...
Colombia's Aging Military Fleet in Question After C-130 Crash Kills Eight Near Amazon Border " SOFX
3+ week, 3+ day ago (489+ words) A Colombian Air Force Lockheed C-130 H Hercules transport aircraft crashed on takeoff in the country's southern Amazon region on March 23, killing at least eight people and injuring 83 others. President Gustavo Petro blamed government bureaucracy for stalling fleet modernization and threatened…...