Defense Tech

The Air Force has picked the first CCA airframes. The aircraft are moving toward serial production, while the autonomy brain remains a separate contest.

Chinese activity east of Taiwan turns the island’s under-watched flank into a security, shipping and compute-supply problem.

Helsing’s warhead MoU with EURENCO turns the European autonomy story from software into energetics. The issue is no longer only whether drones can search, navigate and coordinate, but whether Europe can manufacture the explosive chain around them.

VICTUS HAZE joins fast launch to orbital pursuit, turning responsiveness into a contest over who can get near whom first. The public record supports an autonomy-adjacent counterspace stack, not yet proof of onboard AI engagement decisions.

The Air Force’s CCA awards turn loyal-wingman aircraft into a split procurement: robot bodies on one side, swappable mission autonomy on the other.