Event Brief
UPDATED Aug 19, 2026 at 3:00 AM ET
Aug 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM ET
USAF seeks expendable target drones mimicking threats
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USAF issues an RFI for a family of expendable aerial targets to replicate threats from hobby drones to stealth fighters.
WHO: U.S. Air Force
WHAT: Issued a Request for Information (RFI) for a family of expendable aerial target drones to represent a wide range of airborne threats.
WHEN: Reported Aug 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM ET
WHERE: USA
WHY: To obtain proposals for realistic, inexpensive, and routinely riskable expendable aerial targets for testing modern sensors and weapons.
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