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‘We Do Fail … a Lot’: Defense Startup Anduril Hits Setbacks With Weapons Tech

The Navy was attempting to launch and recover more than 30 drone boats from a combat ship off the coast of California in May when more than a dozen of the uncrewed vessels failed to carry out their ...
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Defense Tech Startup Aventra Emerges from Stealth with $3M Seed Round to Transform Unguided Munitions into Long-Range Precision Weapons

HERNDON, Va., Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Aventra, a defense technology startup developing low-cost glide and guidance systems for ultra long-range precision strikes, today announced its emergence ...
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Defense Tech Lures Students Looking for ‘Mission Over Money’

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Janne Knodler visits a defense tech conference at Stanford University to ...

The military once considered using balloons as nuclear weapons systems

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.