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First Breach Completes 2 km Flight Test of CQS Drone
First Breach announced that its Close Quarters Strike drone prototype successfully completed a 2 km flight mission carrying a 500 g payload and reached a maximum speed of 120 km/h during the mission. This is the first CQS test flight in which the Company has demonstrated those range, payload, and speed figures together. "This successful mission represents an important advance for our CQS program and strengthens our confidence as we work toward production," said Jeffrey Low, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Breach. "This result demonstrates that the aircraft can perform with its intended payload aboard and marks an important step toward completing our initial prototypes and preparing for production."
First Breach Signs Agreement for 20M Primers Monthly
First Breach announced an agreement with a strategic supplier that gives the Company the ability to purchase up to 20M primers per month. First Breach has also received two additional pieces of ammunition inspection equipment and entered into a separate agreement with a key raw material supplier to support reliable material availability as production scales.
First Breach Advances Hagerstown Manufacturing Expansion
First Breach is advancing its Hagerstown manufacturing expansion as federal investment and procurement priorities reinforce demand for domestic defense production. The Company believes this shift reflects a lasting national security priority that extends beyond any single policy cycle. The Pentagon's roughly $1B Drone Dominance Program, announced in December 2025, aims to buy hundreds of thousands of American-made drones and is designed to give industry a steady, long-term demand signal. The program's second phase, which takes effect this year, restricts motors and battery systems from covered countries. Policy is moving the same way on other fronts. New procurement rules bar federal agencies from buying foreign-made drones. The FCC's restrictions on foreign-made drone hardware, with exemptions for Blue UAS and Buy American drones now running through January 1, 2028, are further steering buyers toward domestic suppliers. First Breach is targeting scaled drone production at its Hagerstown campus by Q2 2027, ahead of the exemption deadline. The Company currently has approximately 80,000 square feet dedicated to ammunition manufacturing, with more than 200,000 additional contiguous square feet under development to expand ammunition production and establish drone manufacturing operations. As part of this expansion, First Breach has conducted extensive testing of its American-made unmanned aerial systems, with two proprietary drone platforms now in active flight testing. Among its recent successes, the Company's Close Quarters Strike platform has completed untethered flight, executed a fully autonomous mission from takeoff through landing along a predetermined satellite navigation route, and reached 100 mph in testing without a payload. Its larger Long Range Strike platform has also completed its initial test flight. The two platforms share components and manufacturing resources designed to support efficient, scalable production as development and testing continue. The company expects to complete initial drone prototypes by Q4 2026 with a target of scaled production in Q2 2027.
First Breach Successfully Tests Long Range Strike Platform
First Breach announced the successful initial test flight of its Long Range Strike, LRS, platform, the second of the two proprietary drone platforms under development with Hellbender. Both the LRS and the Company's Close Quarters Strike, CQS, platform are now in active flight testing.
First Breach Drone Prototype Reaches Speed of 161 km/h in Testing
First Breach announced that its proprietary drone prototype has reached a speed of 161 km/h in flight testing without a payload, the maximum groundspeed the Federal Aviation Administration permits for small unmanned aircraft under Part 107 without a waiver. The Company is in the process of obtaining FAA authorization to test at speeds above that limit. "We did not stop at 100 mph because the aircraft ran out of margin. We stopped because the rulebook did," said Jeffrey Low, CEO. "This is a platform that was flying tethered a few months ago. Today it is operating at the regulatory ceiling for its class, and we are working with the FAA to find out how much is left above it. For the defense customers we are building for, speed is survivability and mission tempo, and this airframe has both to spare." The 161 km/h result was achieved on the current prototype configuration, with no payload, and exceeds the 120 km/h maximum speed the Company published in its prior specifications for the platform. Hellbender has initiated the process of obtaining FAA waivers that would permit testing above that threshold and expects to characterize the platform's full speed envelope once that authorization is in place. The Company continues to target completion of its initial prototypes in the fourth quarter of 2026 and the start of scaled production in the second quarter of 2027, with a targeted production capacity of more than 2,500 drones per week as manufacturing operations expand.
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