• Navy Commercial, the Royal Navy’s procurement office, opened a tender worth about £120,000 excluding VAT for Skydio X10D small reconnaissance drones, with delivery to south-east England.
  • Bids are due 19 November and the contract runs to 31 March 2027; the notice does not give the number of drones or the operating unit.
  • The U.S. Army ordered more than 2,500 X10Ds in March, and the UK Ministry of Defence bought Skydio’s earlier X2D in 2022.