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FPV
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About FPV
This page covers first-person-view drones as weapons: small, cheap aircraft flown through a camera feed. In Ukraine, FPV drones costing a few hundred dollars routinely destroy armoured vehicles worth millions.
The Pentagon is buying them in bulk through its Drone Dominance Program. Of the 30,000 one-way attack drones it ordered in March, 16,680 had passed government inspection by 15 October. The next round sets prices in advance: about 60,000 drones for $450 million, at $5,000 for a long-range drone and $3,000 for a short-range one, warhead extra.
Every drone in that round must keep working under radio jamming and without satellite navigation. Fibre-optic control, which leaves no radio link to jam, is encouraged.
Armies are also building their own. Polish military units have signed 3.56 million złoty (about $907,000) of contracts since October 2025 for 3D printers, tools and parts to build drones, by FlightBrief's count of the award notices.
Coverage
Pentagon Offers Neros Up to $450M to Make Drone Parts
The loan is conditional and nothing is drawn yet. Neros adds $165M of its own and plans to sell motors and radios to other drone makers.
Polish Army Units Buy 3D Printers to Build Their Own Drones
One 3D-printer dealer in Pomerania won 69% of the 3.56 million złoty signed so far. More than a third of the parts tendered ended with no contract.
Pentagon Plans $450M Order for 60,000 Jam-Resistant Drones
Prices are fixed at $3,000 and $5,000 a drone, plus the warhead. Every bidder must fly through jamming, and fibre-optic links are encouraged.
Pentagon Accepts 12,080 of 30,000 Drone Dominance Drones
Six weeks after the delivery window closed, the programme's own leaderboard shows 12,080 drones accepted, and Gauntlet I winner Skycutter with none.
Neros Raises $250M to Build Interceptor and FPV Drones
Neros raised $250M at a $2.5B valuation and is adding a counter-drone interceptor, moving beyond the FPV airframes that made its name in Ukraine.
Iraq Unveils SARA 1 Rifle-Mounted Combat Drone
Iraq's National Security Service unveils SARA 1, a quadcopter carrying infantry rifles and thermal cameras for day-and-night fire support.
Pentagon Sends Personnel to Ukraine to Study Drone Warfare
Defense Secretary Hegseth confirmed US personnel are in Ukraine studying drone combat tactics, battlefield experience no NATO ally has.
Ukrainian Drone Teams Beat NATO Forces in Aurora 2026 Drill
Fewer than 20 Ukrainian FPV pilots repeatedly shut down Aurora 2026, destroying 28 of 32 vehicles in one engagement and an airfield in 20 minutes.
Draganfly Lands AFSOC Deal for Flex FPV Drones and Training
Draganfly secured a partnership with Air Force Special Operations Command to deliver Flex FPV drones and operator training.
General Cherry to Build Interceptor Drones in New Hampshire
Ukrainian FPV and interceptor drone maker General Cherry has signed a deal with Wilcox Industries to manufacture UAVs at its New Hampshire facilities.
Companies
Neros Technologies
US manufacturer of low-cost first-person-view attack drones and counter-UAS interceptors, built around a domestic supply chain outside Chinese components.
United States
Perennial Autonomy
US developer of low-cost interceptor and strike drones, funded by Eric Schmidt and supplying counter-drone systems to Ukraine and the US military.
United States
Auterion
Drone software company whose AuterionOS operating system and Skynode flight computers turn other makers' drones into autonomous strike systems.
United States
Draganfly
Canadian drone company producing aircraft, payloads, software and services for public safety, defense and commercial users.
Canada
General Cherry
Ukrainian maker of FPV and interceptor drones, expanding production into the United States through a partnership with Wilcox Industries.
Ukraine
Performance Drone Works
U.S. defense drone manufacturer producing NDAA-compliant tactical UAS for military and public safety use, headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.
United States
Wilcox Industries
New Hampshire defense manufacturer of night vision mounts and weapon accessories, now the US production partner of Ukrainian drone maker General Cherry.
United States
Products
DJI Avata 360
DJI
The first FPV drone with a native 360° camera and the first with omnidirectional obstacle sensing. At 455 g it lives outside every sub-250 g exemption, and 23 minutes is what you get.
Antigravity A1
Antigravity (Insta360)
The first drone with a built-in 8K 360-degree camera, flown through goggles and a one-hand grip rather than sticks, at 249 g. New enough that nobody has flown it for a year, and $1,599 buys a way of flying as much as an aircraft.
Funding
Series C
Sequoia Capital, American Strategic Technology Fund, Interlagos, Valor Equity Partners, Allen & Company, Thiel Capital, Spark Capital, Dylan Field
Neros TechnologiesSeries B
Ondas, Booz Allen Ventures, Hood River, Cedar Pine, Hanwha (venture fund)
Performance Drone WorksContracts
Government of Canada
AVSS, Volatus Aerospace, Draganfly, Objexis AI, Twenty20 Insight, Beonyx
First contracts under the Defence Drone Initiative Marketplace: up to C$50 million across six…
U.S. Army
Neros Technologies
IDIQ for the Archer first-person-view attritable drone, with support equipment, testing, engineering…
U.S. Air Force
Draganfly
Flex FPV drone platforms and operator training for U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command.
U.S. Department of War
Perennial Autonomy
Agreement between the Pentagon's Joint Interagency Task Force 401 and Perennial Autonomy to fund…