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Redmond Police Buy Six Skydio Drones on a 5-Year Plan
Redmond, Oregon, is replacing its DJI police drones with six Skydio aircraft, and paying for them the way a city buys a fleet of patrol cars: on a five-year financed contract. The city council approved the $410,762 deal with Axon…
Amazon’s Prime Air Drones Head for the Omaha Suburbs
Amazon has confirmed that its next drone-delivery market is the Omaha area, with Prime Air aircraft set to fly out of the company’s warehouse in Papillion, Nebraska. The service will carry items under five pounds (2.3 kg) that fit in…
IISS Report Names Real Russian Drone Incidents and Phantom Ones, and the Difference Is the Story
A London think tank has assembled the fullest picture yet of the drone incursions that rattled European airbases, airports and nuclear sites since late 2024, and its central claim is serious: Russian intelligence ran a coordinated surveillance campaign launched from…
Santa Maria’s Police Drones Come From Donors, Not City
Santa Maria’s police department is getting its drone-as-first-responder program off the ground with money raised at a charity gala, not a line in the city budget. The Santa Maria Police Council, a nonprofit booster group, pulled in about $95,000 at…
Police Drones Spread in California as Residents Push Back
Two California cities moved to put police drones in the air the same week, and both ran straight into residents who don’t want them there. West Hollywood launches a sheriff-run drone program by the end of July. Berkeley opens bidding…
Luke Maximo Bell Beats SiFly’s Guinness Drone Endurance Record By An Hour
Luke Maximo Bell flew a rebuilt quadcopter for 4 hours, 21 minutes and 39 seconds on a single battery charge, breaking the Guinness World Record for longest flight of a small electric multirotor drone. Independent witnesses observed the attempt on…
Boom CEO Puts Up $100K Prize For First Amateur RC Airplane To Break Mach 1, Hours After Dorm-Built Jet Goes Viral
Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl announced a $100,000 prize, $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in Boom stock, for the first amateur-built RC airplane to exceed Mach 1. Scholl posted the challenge on X this morning, July 2, quote-tweeting…
DJI Teases New Enterprise Drone “For The Priceless Below,” And Everything Points At A Matrice 30 Successor
DJI will announce a new enterprise drone on July 8, 2026, at 8 AM EDT. The teaser, published by DJI Enterprise on July 2 under the tagline “For the Priceless Below,” shows a darkened silhouette of a quadcopter with extended…
El Paso County Sheriff’s Drone First Responder Program Catches Woman Hiding With Two Active Warrants
An El Paso County Sheriff’s Office drone spotted people fleeing a Colorado Springs-area home and hiding in the backyard before deputies ever arrived on scene, leading to the arrest of a 44-year-old woman wanted on two active warrants. The Sheriff’s…
UDD Picks Ohio For First U.S. FPV Drone Factory, Turning A Pentagon Contract Into 300 American Jobs
Ukrainian Defense Drones (UDD), the U.S. company representing Ukraine’s F-Drones, has chosen the Village of Holland in Northwest Ohio for its first American assembly and manufacturing center. The company plans to invest $18.4 million and create at least 300 jobs…
DJI Mini 4K Protection Bundle Falls To $251.99 For July 4th Weekend, The Beginner Kit With Crash Protection Built In
The DJI Mini 4K Protection Bundle dropped to $251.99 on Amazon, 26% off its $341.99 list price and, per Amazon’s badge, the lowest price in 30 days. The deal landed right before the July 4th weekend, is Prime-eligible with free…
College Student Claims 500 MPH Jet Drone Built In His Dorm Room, And The FAA Rulebook Says It Never Should Have Flown
A college student says he built the world’s fastest RC airplane in his dorm: a 5 kg carbon-fiber jet he claims hits 500 mph. The engineering is real. The legality isn’t.
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