Aerospace & Defense News

Electro Optic, DroneShield and newcomer Ktek Aero jump as Trump gov't eyes US investments

Just to be extremely clear right off the bat, the United States government isn’t publicly considering making an investment into Australian publicly-listed drone tech companies, just those in the U.S., according to overnight headlines @ but the news has been enough to send Aussie d...

Jonathon Davidson

29 May 2026 11:55 (AEST)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Electro Optic Systems (ASX:EOS) has seen its shares surge more than +18% out the gate on Monday in the first twenty minutes of trade as the US-Iran war sees investors reallocate into fairly obvious domains.Listen to the HotCopper podcast for in-depth discussions and insights on all the biggest he...

Jonathon Davidson

02 Mar 2026 10:26 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Two of the most popular defence stocks on the ASX of late, gov't-backed shipbuilder Austal and Electro Optic have both reported Monday.

Jonathon Davidson

23 Feb 2026 14:40 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Austal has shrugged off last week's sell-off, spurred by the company's discovery it had been counting on tens of millions that didn't exist.

Jonathon Davidson

20 Feb 2026 11:44 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Austal (ASX:ASB) has sank on Friday to lunchtime, losing a quarter of its value, after revealing in the middle of confessions season that its finance guys @double-counted’ a contract linked to a U.S. Navy order in Alabama. Listen to the HotCopper podcast for in-depth discussions a...

Jonathon Davidson

13 Feb 2026 13:21 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Electro Optic has responded to short-selling outfit Grizzly Research that last week claimed the Australian company is acting fraudulently.

Jonathon Davidson

10 Feb 2026 11:01 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

The defence thematic is back, baby, and it leaves us asking about the Electro Optic Systems battle against DroneShield Down Under.

Jonathon Davidson

13 Jan 2026 14:51 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Electro Optic Systems needs to cough up A$4 million to ASIC as a penalty, the concluding factor in a long-running ASIC investigation.

Jonathon Davidson

26 Nov 2025 14:10 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

DroneShield has issued a response to ASX compliance that can only be called 'ballsy' after everything that's happened quite recently.

Jonathon Davidson

20 Nov 2025 14:23 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Electro Optic Systems EOS has seen its shares jump +3.5% as the company reveals it's the beneficiary of a new A$20 million order.

Jonathon Davidson

17 Nov 2025 12:06 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

DroneShield has sunk -33% after three directors appeared to sell their shares in the company out of nowhere, with Oleg selling off $50M.

Jonathon Davidson

13 Nov 2025 13:40 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Technology Aerospace & Defense

Droneshield has seen a fairly volatile day of trading after accidentally reannouncing an existing set of contracts totalling over $7 million.

Jonathon Davidson

10 Nov 2025 13:02 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Spare a thought for shareholders in Electro Optic Systems, who may have missed news of the overnight Gaza-Israel peace deal.

Jonathon Davidson

14 Oct 2025 14:12 (AEDT)

ASX News Industrials Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense News

Electro Optic, DroneShield and newcomer Ktek Aero jump as Trump gov't eyes US investments

Electro Optic pops +18% out the gate on back of Iran war bets

Defence darlings Austal, Electro Optic have two very different Mondays after earnings

Austal flat WoW as new $4B defence contract erases counting error losses

Gov't-backed shipbuilder Austal falls -25% as company reveals it can't count

'Misleading, manipulatory and pejorative conclusions': Electro Optic dismisses Grizzly report

Electro Optic back to $11/share as clear winner in the DroneShield vs EOS war

Electro Optic jumps as ASIC investigation fizzles out into measly $4M fine

DroneShield tells ASX queries around director sell-off 'hypothetical' in ballsy response

Forget DroneShield: EOS sells computerised 30mm cannon to NATO country for C-UAS tech

Investor fury as DroneShield sinks -33% after CEO sells all shares at ~$3.30

Investors roll eyes as Droneshield announces new contracts, then clarifies they're old contracts

Electro Optic falls -10% as Israeli peace deal rattles defence thematic momentum