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EagleNXT Announces Sale of Advanced eBee TAC Drones to Defense Logistics Agency

October 25th, 2025

Advanced Drones to Fulfill Varied Missions, Increase Flexibility and Capability with multiple sensor packages

WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 23, 2025 — AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. (dba, EagleNXT) (the “Company” or “EagleNXT”) (NYSE: UAVS), a leading provider of advanced drone and aerial imaging solutions, is pleased to announce a significant sale as part of a larger Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) procurement, supplying two of its eBee TAC unmanned aerial systems to support the operational needs of a United States military unit.

This strategic procurement underscores EagleNXT’s growing role in delivering cutting-edge, NDAA-compliant technology for high resolution mapping, and tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions with the U.S. Government.

The eBee TAC, a lightweight, hand-launched fixed-wing drone, offers up to 90 minutes of flight time and a 15 km range, enables rapid deployment and secure data collection. Capable of generating 2D orthomosaics, 3D models, and thermal maps, the system is tailored for applications such as terrain analysis and situational awareness in complex environments.

“We are honored to support the Defense Logistics Agency and its mission to enhance national security through advanced UAV solutions,” said Bill Irby, CEO of EagleNXT. “The eBee TAC, capable of being equipped with multiple sensor configurations, represents the pinnacle of tactical mapping technology-delivering real-time, actionable intelligence to operators in dynamic environments. This award underscores EagleNXT’s expertise in high-performance unmanned systems for defense applications and reinforces our position as a trusted partner in strengthening U.S. operational capabilities and public safety infrastructure. Our focus remains on executing with discipline, and providing needed capability to the warfighter.”

The DLA is a combat support agency within the U.S. Department of Defense, and is responsible for providing comprehensive logistics, acquisition, and sustainment solutions to America’s armed forces and federal agencies. With a mission to deliver readiness and lethality through a global supply chain, DLA manages the procurement and distribution of critical equipment, supplies, and services to support military operations worldwide.

Advanced unmanned aerial systems like the eBee TAC, which is included on the U.S. Department of Defense’s Blue UAS Cleared list, enhance DLA’s capabilities by enabling rapid intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, delivering high-precision mapping, 3D modeling, and advanced situational awareness for multiple mission sets.

For more information about the full suite of EagleNXT UAS solutions, or to schedule a demo, visit EagleNXT.com

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Operation Urgent Fury

October 25th, 2025

On the morning of October 25th, 1983, America awoke to reports that US forced had invaded the small Caribbean nation of Grenada, in order to liberate American medical students from danger posed by political instability. Joined by Regional Security System troops from a variety of Caribbean partner nations, they swiftly overwhelmed the Grenadian and Cuban troops. While Operation Urgent Fury was in name, a joint force operation, and included the use of Special Operations Forces, it highlighted many interoperability challenges, such as use of joint operational overlays and communications issues.

Several stove pipe problems suffered by the pre-Goldwater-Nichols military were identified during this operation. Additionally, Urgent Fury was conducted with many systems dating from the Vietnam war.

Just six years later, during the invasion of Panama, saw the first employment of several new weapons developed during the Reagan buildup such as the F-117 stealth fighter and the Marine Corps LAV-25. Grenada was a great learning experience for the US military as it highlighted issues with joint service operations, particularly in the communications arena as well as interoperability between Special Operations and General Purpose forces. For example, SOF also took a much more prominent role in operation Blue Spoon during the Panama invasion. We’ve come even further in the past three decades.

Finally, as with any conflict, lives were lost. Let us not forget the 19 Americans killed in action and the 116 who were wounded. Unfortunately, there were also 24 Grenadian civilians killed in the conflict.

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DroneShield Expands Airspace Security with ADS-B Integration into its DroneSentry-C2 Software

October 24th, 2025

Dual-band ADS-B reception enhances airspace safety awareness, supporting mixed-domain operations

Sydney, Australia – 23 October 2025 – DroneShield, a global leader in counter-drone technology, today announced the integration of Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) into its ecosystem. The integration fuses traditional aviation surveillance data with counter-drone detection, allowing operators to intuitively differentiate legitimate aircraft from potential drone threats.

ADS-B is a widely adopted air traffic monitoring technology, used globally to broadcast the identity, position, altitude, and velocity of crewed aircraft. By receiving and fusing ADS-B data into DroneSentry-C2, DroneShield’s SaaS-enabled command-and-control platform can now provide operators with a clearer picture of both crewed and uncrewed activity in shared airspace. This reduces the risk of misidentification and enhances operator confidence when making time-critical decisions. The update comes as DroneShield has unveiled its DroneSentry-C2 Enterprise and several updates to its C2 software earlier this month, as part of its regular quarterly software update cycle.

The need for integrated airspace awareness has been underscored in recent years, including high-profile incidents in the United States where unclassified aerial objects near sensitive sites triggered widespread concern. In environments where distinguishing between drones, conventional aircraft, and other aerial phenomena is becoming increasingly critical, DroneShield’s integration of ADS-B with multi-sensor counter-drone detection provides additional clarity and control for users.

Image: DroneSentry-C2 incorporating the ADS-B flight tracking feature

For public safety agencies, emergency services, and critical infrastructure operators, the integration supports further awareness in mixed airspace missions such as disaster response, emergency medical transport, and major event security. For defence and government customers, it reinforces airspace awareness while expanding the operational relevance of counter-drone solutions.

DroneSentry-C2, DroneShield’s rapidly scaling command-and-control platform, is built on DroneShield’s proprietary artificial intelligence, the SensorFusionAI (SFAI) engine, DroneSentry-C2 ingests and cross-references data from radio frequency, radar, optical, and now ADS-B sources, creating a single operational picture that reduces false alarms and increases the range of effective response options available to end users, highlighting DroneSentry-C2’s role as more than a display tool.

“Integrating ADS-B data reflects our vision for a future of comprehensive airspace awareness,” said Angus Bean, Chief Product Officer at DroneShield. “By expanding DroneSentry-C2’s capabilities to include both crewed and uncrewed aviation ADS-B data, we are adding to our customers situational awareness that they need to make faster, safer, and more confident decisions in complex environments.”

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Introducing THE Original Scope Bumper

October 24th, 2025

Scope Covers Like No Other

The product idea that got the brand started.

The Scope Bumper™ is a complete rethinking of what scope covers should be. Sure, it covers the lens, but it also solves two other problems that most covers don’t: Scope Bumper™ protects the scope and doesn’t get in the way.

Protection

The Scope Bumper™ is made of three pieces that work together to protect your scope from end impacts, glancing blows, and incidental contact with objects in your environment.

The protective outer cover and cap are made of an advanced carbon fiber polymer that is highly durable, shielding your scope’s lens and bell housing from hard objects found in and around cover.

The inner bumper (most models) is made of a strong, pliable, and shock-absorbing material that is extremely durable against tears and impacts. The innovative bumper extends to cover most of your scope’s bell housing, cushioning it from end impacts and softening glancing blows.

The front of the bumper is thicker and compressible to help absorb direct impacts that could harm your scope’s lens or housing.

All materials used in the Scope Bumper™ are tested to extremes for durability as well as UV and corrosion resistance. The retention bands are made of a robust and stretchy material sourced specifically for use with our designs.

Low Profile

Other scope cover designs can be frustrating, bulky, pop open when you don’t want them to, and worst of all, they limit visibility from the shooter’s position. At Scope Bumper, our motivation to design high-functioning, low-profile products has culminated in a first of its kind for scope cover design: a folding scope cap.

The Scope Bumper’s™ revolutionary folding design almost disappears when open so that it doesn’t interfere with the shooter’s line-of-sight. The Scope Bumper™ cap snaps into place with a simple push when closed, and it opens with a firm flick of the finger. Sleek and satisfying!

Our folding caps are extremely useful for scopes where the ocular housing rotates when you change magnification.

Our smallest Scope Bumper™ covers use a single-piece, non-folding cap design similar in size to the turrets on most small form-factor scopes, so they hide away tucked up close to the main tube.

We also have versions without a bumper for compact LPVO’s where there is very little room for an objective cover in front of the mounting rings. These models clamp on just like our weapon light covers.

The Scope Bumper™ comes in half-millimeter sized increments that fit most scopes on the market. If you don’t see your scope on the list or your Scope Bumper™ size available, just reach out using our contact form and we’ll get you covered.

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Primary Arms – SLx 4.5-27×56 Scope Now Available

October 24th, 2025

Primary Arms has released the SL 4.5-27×56 telescopic sight for range for long-range versatility.

Key Features:

First Focal Plane reticle for consistent subtensions
High-quality multi-coated objective lens
0.1 MIL click value with interchangeable Easy Stop precision turrets
34mm tube with 32 MIL of Elevation Adjustment
ACSS Deka G2 and ACSS Athena BPR MIL reticle options
Red illuminated reticle with 6 brightness settings

Check it out here.

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Beretta Introduces A300 Ultima Patrol Raider: Two New Configurations to Honor the U.S. Marine Corps 250th Anniversary

October 24th, 2025

Accokeek, MD (October 17, 2025) – Beretta proudly announces two new configurations of the A300 Ultima Patrol platform to commemorate the United States Marine Corps’ 250th birthday: the A300 Ultima Patrol Raider Commemorative Edition (limited to 250 units) and a mission ready standard A300 Ultima Patrol configuration.

Built to honor 250 years of Marine Corps excellence, the limited-edition Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol Raider pays tribute to America’s finest fighting force and their legacy in close quarters battle. Featuring the legendary Frogskin camouflage that evokes WWII Pacific Theater combat, the Raider is a modern fighting shotgun that salutes the unbreakable spirit of the United States Marine Corps while blending battlefield heritage with today’s uncompromising performance. The A300 Ultima Patrol raider Commemorative Edition honors the USMC 250th and ships with a standard issue Ontario Knife Company (OKC) 3S bayonet, custom serial number and is presented in a custom display case.

The Standard configuration helps celebrate the USMC and provides the same operational upgrades and Frogskinfinish as the Commemorative Edition but does not include the bayonet or the custom display case.

Key Technical Highlights

• WWII Style Frogskin Camo

• Custom Packaging Commemorative Edition Only

• Bayonet Commemorative Edition Only

• Bayonet Mount

• Enlarged Controls

• Ample Accessory Mounts

• Aggressively Textured Grip Areas

• 7+1 Capacity

“The United States Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary is a historic milestone, and we wanted to create something that truly celebrates their legacy,” said Caleb McMillen, Sr. Product Manager at Beretta USA. “The A300 Ultima Patrol Raider is more than a shotgun. It’s a tribute to 250 years of honor, courage and commitment. By blending battlefield heritage with modern performance, we’re proud to offer both a commemorative edition and a mission-ready configuration that salute America’s Finest Fighting Force.”

The limited?edition A300 Ultima Patrol Raider (250 units) and the Standard A300 Ultima Patrol configuration are being offered by Beretta USA. For availability, pricing, and ordering information, contact Beretta USA or authorized Beretta dealers.

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Radical Defense Answers Blast Over Pressure Challenge with Unconventional Weapon Personal Protective Equipment

October 24th, 2025

In recent articles we’ve introduced you to the hidden threat of Blast Over Pressure (BOP) coincidental to firing and being near friendly weapons as well as being an effect of enemy induced BOP, along with considerations on what industry is doing to deal with this newly recognized phenomenon.

To get everyone back up to speed, let’s review the DoD definition for Blast Over Pressure:

The sudden onset of a pressure wave, above normal atmospheric pressure, which occurs from blast (e.g., explosions and weapons firing events). The pressure wave is caused by the energy released during explosions and weapons firing.

Now, let’s take a look at what a small business in Texas is doing to mitigate those effects through focused suppressor design.

Radical Defense has been in the suppressor business for well over a decade and earned its reputation as an innovator by focusing on very specialized suppression projects for US and allied SOF. Always on the lookout for a new problem to solve, they have spent millions of internal research and development dollars.

Radical examined BOP and immediately saw where their suppressor technology could be applied. They began to refer to their approach as Unconventional Weapon Personal Protective Equipment.

To beat the BOP challenge, Radical first had to develop a test protocol to measure against. Working with industry partners, they established a protocol similar to that used to test sound measurements. However, there are certain challenges to measuring BOP with the microphones used for standard sound pressure reduction as opposed to a blast microphone or a blast gauge. The microphones are capable of capturing the full pressure curve of an overpressure event, whereas the blast gauges record the event itself, but only if the pressure event is over a certain, predetermined value. Additionally, the microphone provides a delta that is easily observed for comparative analysis of unsuppressed to suppressed. The blast gauges themselves act as “Go / No-Go” gauge of sorts, immediately alerting the user of an event, while the microphone offers fidelity recording the entire event as well as capturing and assigning a value in Pascal (Pa) or Pounds per Square Inch (PSI). Radical Defense has informed me that they would be willing to share their protocol with others interested in working to mitigate BOP through the use of suppressor technology.

Like many companies in the suppressor business, Radical Defense has leaned heavily into computer modeling and additive manufacturing. This allowed them to quickly modify designs to increase their effectiveness in mitigating BOP.

Initially they sought out a solution for .50 weapons. For one thing, between the M107, M2, and M3, the caliber is found in every service throughout the military except for Space Force and is one of the calibers which places service members at risk. Additionally, since they had already done the hard work on suppressing the M2, it was a natural progression.

One such project was the BAD-21 suppressor (designed for the GAU-21). Internal testing revealed an 88% reduction in blast over pressure measured 4 feet on either side of the muzzle with a 77% reduction at the shooter’s head.

As an added bonus, Radical Defense found that their work on Blast Overpressure mitigation protects sensitive electronics and sensors from undue wear and tear as well as from errant readings during operations. The same goes for ground vehicles which increasingly carry vulnerable items like satellite antennas, shot locators, and Unmanned Aerial Systems countermeasures.

Radical Defense continues to develop new Unconventional Weapon Personal Protective Equipment for an ever increasing number of calibers and weapons. Some of them may even surprise you. Hopefully, they’ll let me share some of the other systems as well as results of work they have done for the military.

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FirstSpear Friday Focus: FS Icon Hoodie

October 24th, 2025

FirstSpear’s FS ICON HOODIE blends comfort, functionality, and timeless design. Made from a soft, mid-weight blend of 60% cotton and 40% polyester, this all-purpose garment offers lasting comfort and exceptional durability.

Featuring the iconic Speartip logo, the FS ICON HOODIE transitions seamlessly from casual wear to outdoor adventures, making it a versatile staple for any wardrobe.

As the ideal companion for fall weather it can be layered under an FS WIND CHEATER for excursions or worn solo for a relaxed, stylish look. Its clean design ensures you’re prepared for whatever the day brings.

The FS ICON HOODIE balances warmth and breathability to keep you cozy on chilly mornings while remaining comfortable for all-day wear.

Whether you’re traveling, training, or simply relaxing, the FS ICON HOODIE supports your lifestyle with ease and versatility. It’s the go-to essential for anyone who values quality and functionality in their everyday gear.

To request an estimate click image above or visit First-Spear.com/Request-For-Estimate. FirstSpear is the premier source for cutting edge-tactical gear for military, law enforcement and those who train. For more information visit First-Spear.

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