Elroy AirUnclassified
Elroy Air Wins $46 Million Army Contract for Chaparral Cargo Drone
Contract award
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The week to 20 August 2026
Twelve entries reached Uncrewed systems in the seven days to 20 August 2026, from nine sources. The largest group was news items, at six. Eleven companies were named, one of them more than once, eight of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried eleven, one fewer.
Contract award
3Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyGovernment
DARPA came close to finding a drone that can lift four times its own weight
Contract award
Defense News
Kratos Defense & Security SolutionsUncrewed systems
Kratos and GE Aerospace’s GEK800 Engine Receives U.S. Military Type Designation F143-ZZ-100 and EMD Contract Award for JASSM
Contract award
GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry
Product launch
1CentcomUnclassified
CENTCOM launches multinational attack drone task force
Product launch
Defense News
Merger or acquisition
1US Air ForceGovernment
US Air Force looks to acquire target drones that can mimic stealth jets
Merger or acquisition
Defense News
Executive appointment
1Performance Drone WorksUncrewed systems
PDW Eyes Supplying Parts To Support U.S. Production Of One Million Drones Annually
Executive appointment
Aviation Today
News item
6XTI AerospaceUnclassified
XTI Aerospace Announces Executive Leadership Transition
News item
PR Newswire
US NavyGovernment
USMC Valkyrie Demonstrates Beyond-Line-Of-Sight Command and Control in Flight at U.S. Navy Test Range
News item
GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry
Shield AIUncrewed systems
How V-BAT Earns Operational Trust
News item
Shield AI newsroom
Shield AIUncrewed systems
Shield AI scores $50m X-Bat investment from US Navy
News item
FlightGlobal
NATOGovernment
NATO fighters shoot down drone over Latvia as Finland restricts airspace
News item
AeroTime
CastelionDefense electronics
Hunt For New Lower-Cost Strike Missile With 1,000-Kilometer Range Underway By U.S. Army
News item
The War Zone
Where the week came from
nine sources supplied the 12 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.
| Source | Entries |
|---|---|
| Defense News | 3 |
| GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry | 2 |
| AeroTime | 1 |
| Aviation International News | 1 |
| Aviation Today | 1 |
| FlightGlobal | 1 |
| PR Newswire, Airlines and Aviation | 1 |
| Shield AI newsroom | 1 |
| The War Zone | 1 |
How this edition was put together
Every row is an entry in the record, fetched again at its source on the day the record was read and confirmed to carry its excerpt. The groups are the record's own event classes, ordered as a reader of this segment reads them rather than by score alone, and within a group by the record's score and then by date.
The counts on this page are arithmetic over those rows and nothing else. Nothing is added about a company that its own entry does not carry, and the edition is assembled by software, so no line here is an opinion about anyone. What gets in, and what does not is the standard the entries are held to.
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