First Breach Completes First Autonomous Flight of Proprietary Drone Prototype
Key Highlights
- ➤First Breach (FBDT) completes first autonomous drone flight without manual control.
- ➤Prototype follows satellite-navigation route, returns, and lands, validating autonomy guidance, navigation, and control.
- ➤Flight software port to PX4 is underway for complex missions, failsafes, and sensor integration.
- ➤Initial prototypes targeted for Q4 2026; scaled production targeted for Q2 2027.
- ➤Production capacity targeted above 2,500 drones weekly as manufacturing expands.
Expert Statements
Jeffrey Low, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Breach
“Untethered flight showed we had a vehicle. Autonomous flight shows we have a system”
Jeffrey Low, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Breach
“The aircraft was given a mission and it executed that mission on its own, from takeoff to landing. This is an important step toward the capabilities we intend to offer defense and government customers. Our focus now is on further testing, expanding mission capabilities, and preparing the platform for American manufacturing.”
Brett Phillips, Chief Revenue Officer of Hellbender
“Three milestones in a matter of weeks, each one building on the last, demonstrate the pace of First Breach's drone development program”
Brett Phillips, Chief Revenue Officer of Hellbender
“We are building on that progress by advancing mission capabilities and preparing the platform for volume manufacturing on American soil, without compromise. That is what we are doing.”
HAGERSTOWN, MD / ACCESS Newswire / October 13, 2026 / First Breach Inc. (NASDAQ:FBDT) ("First Breach" or the "Company"), an American-made defense technologies company focused on vertically integrated ammunition production and next-generation unmanned aerial systems, today announced that its proprietary drone prototype has completed its first autonomous flight, and provided an update on the development of the platform's flight software under its strategic agreement with Hellbender, Inc. POC in flight, with payload
"Untethered flight showed we had a vehicle. Autonomous flight shows we have a system," said Jeffrey Low, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Breach. "The aircraft was given a mission and it executed that mission on its own, from takeoff to landing. This is an important step toward the capabilities we intend to offer defense and government customers. Our focus now is on further testing, expanding mission capabilities, and preparing the platform for American manufacturing."
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