🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Monday

• A U.S.-Ukraine joint venture will produce FPV and interceptor drones domestically for Pentagon orders, signaling a push to onshore attritable drone manufacturing and scale combat-proven designs into the U.S. industrial base.
• Taiwan’s Army is replacing OH-58D helicopters with dedicated JUMP 20 UAV units inside its aviation brigades, marking a structural shift from manned reconnaissance to unmanned ISR at formation level.
• Starcloud raised $170 million to accelerate deployment of an 88,000-spacecraft orbital data center network, underscoring accelerating private capital flows into space-based compute and storage infrastructure.

Sources:

1) Defence Blog — https://defence-blog.com/u-s-and-ukraine-firms-launch-drone-joint-venture/
2) Defence Blog — https://defence-blog.com/taiwan-army-replaces-oh-58d-helicopters-with-drones/
3) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/starcloud-achieves-unicorn-status-with-170-million-raise-for-orbital-data-centers/

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