EagleNXT has delivered nine eBee VISION reconnaissance drones to the US Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, it said on 22 September. They were built at its plant in Allen, Texas. The Army ordered them in April.
The training center will fly them as the enemy. EagleNXT said in April the drones would simulate hostile surveillance for units in training, and support counter-drone instruction. Each kit carries a hand-launched fixed-wing drone of 4.1 lb with a 46.4-inch wingspan. EagleNXT gives it 90 minutes in the air and a video link of up to 12 miles.
From Lausanne to Allen
The eBee comes from senseFly, the Swiss mapping-drone maker near Lausanne. AgEagle Aerial Systems, which now trades as EagleNXT, bought it from Parrot in 2021. The first eBee VISION units from the Allen line went to Fort Rucker, Alabama, earlier this year.
Chief executive Bill Irby said domestic production “is now an operating reality”. EagleNXT says moving US production to Texas frees its Swiss lines for customers abroad.
Cleared, dropped, cleared again
DroneXL reported in March 2025 that AgEagle was among the makers dropped from the Pentagon’s Blue UAS list in its early-2025 refresh. The company said in July 2025 that the eBee TAC and then the eBee VISION were back on it, through the Green UAS route. The Army orders followed: 15 drones for a unit in Europe and the nine for Fort Irwin in April, and a further order from the 7th Army Training Command in May.
EagleNXT is a small company. Its revenue was $2.7 million in the second quarter of 2026.
