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Selection
- Papers: by theme (state estimation, detection, learning control, sensors, swarms, foundation models, counter-UAS and more), we chose influential work later used in products or research.
- News: from 6 November 2006 to 6 November 2026, we chose products, funding, acquisitions, regulation, defense and partnerships that changed the market's direction, merging follow-up stories into one record.
- Companies: we chose firms with different strategic models across seven layers, from sensors to airspace management.
Reading depth is stated separately
Seeing a search result is not reading. We separately mark full text read, abstract only, excerpt only, and title-and-date only.
Summaries are rewritten for a 14-year-old, so check originals for precision.
Fact and interpretation are separated
What happened is written as fact; what it means is written as interpretation, in a separate field.
The entry-strategy page includes interpretation from Airffic's perspective. It is not a neutral third-party assessment.
What we do not know (limitations)
- We publish no estimates of market size or company revenue, margins or share, because reliable public figures are scarce.
- Military and defense information is limited to what is public; real performance and full contracts are unknown.
- Announcements by private companies are their own accounts, not third-party verification.
- Sources are mainly English and Japanese; Chinese and other-language sources are under-read.
Any tool can continue the work
All text and data are stored as plain JSON. Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or a person can edit the same files and rebuild the site.
Where work stopped is always recorded in the repository's PROGRESS.md.