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The US Army’s fiscal 2027 budget request would nearly double procurement funding for small counter-UAS capabilities, reflecting the service’s push for a layered systems-of-systems approach.

A US-led exercise in Lithuania is pushing soldiers to identify low-cost drones not just by sight, but by the distinct buzz of incoming aircraft.

A successful Tomahawk launch from the Typhon system during joint US-Philippine drills highlights the growing operational role of land-based long-range strike in the Indo-Pacific.

Exercise Balikatan 2026 is serving as a field laboratory for the US Army’s modernization push, from explosive FPV drones and reconnaissance systems to 3D printers and a containerized solar microgrid.

GE Aerospace says the Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program will need fiscal 2027 funding if qualification testing for Black Hawk integration is to stay on track.

The US Army has decided not to advance its 300-kilowatt Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser system to a program of record, abandoning what would have been the most powerful operational laser weapon in its arsenal and revealing the persistent engineering gap between directed energy ambitions and battlefield reality.

The U.S. Army has placed a $186 million order for AeroVironment's Switchblade loitering munitions, including both anti-personnel and tank-killing variants. The purchase signals the military's accelerating shift toward expendable autonomous weapons systems.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll says the service aims to purchase one million drones within 18 to 24 months and will launch a soldier-led marketplace next month where private companies can sell drone innovations directly to military units. The push follows the Army's inaugural Best Drone Warfighter Competition.

At Fort Stewart, Georgia, US soldiers who enlisted to drive tanks are now piloting drones on laptops. The Army's Transformation in Contact initiative is absorbing lessons from Ukraine's battlefield, where cheap drones are destroying armor at an unprecedented rate.

RTX's Raytheon division demonstrated a non-kinetic variant of its Coyote interceptor drone that uses electromagnetic pulses to disable multiple enemy drones in flight -- then lands safely for reuse.