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Rich Smith, The Motley Fool
Wed, April 22, 2026 astatine 11:10 AM CDT 3 min read
Unusual Machines (NYSEMKT: UMAC) banal jumped 9.3% done 11:33 a.m. ET this morning, 1 time aft the shaper of parts for subject drones announced it had picked up a $5 cardinal bid for counter-UAS systems (i.e., anti-drone weapons) from privately held Autonomous Power Corporation.
Unusual Machines volition proviso its lawsuit with "core components utilized crossed some counter-UAS interceptor systems and 10-inch people drones," with deliveries expected to statesman wrong the adjacent week.
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$5 cardinal whitethorn not dependable similar overmuch -- but it's astir fractional the gross Unusual Machines booked successful the past year! Relatively speaking, this is large quality for the tiny $730 cardinal drone stock. But there's adjacent bigger quality afoot today.
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) announced yesterday it's requesting $338.8 cardinal successful fiscal 2027 funding, a 37.6% summation implicit fiscal 2026 levels. $71.1 cardinal is earmarked for the U.S. Space Force (USSF), but the bulk of the wealth -- $267.7 cardinal -- would spell to USAF itself.
Granted, the bulk of adjacent the USAF backing volition spell to companies different than Unusual Machines. $3.9 cardinal volition spell toward buying KC-46A aerial refueling tankers from Boeing (NYSE: BA), for example, and $7.4 cardinal volition beryllium spent connected F-35 stealth fighters from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). In the drones field, $2.7 cardinal volition beryllium spent connected processing Collaborative Combat Aircraft -- ample drones designed to run successful tandem with piloted combatant jets.
Smaller drones -- the ones UMAC supplies parts for -- won't person arsenic overmuch backing from this request. But arsenic seen successful today's $5 cardinal bid from Autonomous Power Corporation, a small wealth tin spell a agelong mode successful moving a tiny defence banal similar Unusual Machines.
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