The U.S. Air Force has given one of its newest contracting vehicles a name that sounds like it belongs in a Hollywood blockbuster: Megatron. The Department of the Air Force posted a notice on September 4 on the government’s public contracting portal, opening a new multi-year purchasing arrangement called the “DAF Battle Network ‘Megatron’ Multiple […]

Russian forces have significantly extended how far they can fly and control attack drones inside Ukraine over the past year by switching many of them to mesh-network radios, according to a report from Kyiv-based analytics firm KI Insights. The technology, called MIMO mesh radio, lets a drone act as a mobile relay point in a […]