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DJI Avata 360 Review: Game-Changer or Overhyped Gimmick? My Honest Take After Testing It
Today we are reviewing the DJI Avata 360. There has been a lot of hype and excitement around this drone, with the promise of capturing 360-degree footage at 8K and choosing how to frame it later. There is probably a…
FAA Awards SMART Air Traffic Contract to Air Space Intelligence, Beating Palantir and Thales
The Federal Aviation Administration awarded a 12-year, $875 million contract to Air Space Intelligence to build the predictive air traffic management software it has been developing in stealth for the better part of a year. The Boston startup beat two…
Greece Scales Its Wildfire Drone Grid To 100+ Bases For 2026, A Year After Doubling Its Fleet
Greece will run more than 100 drone surveillance bases and three mobile command centers carrying thermal cameras across the country during the 2026 wildfire season, its largest drone deployment yet for fire detection. Government officials laid out the plan as…
FBI’s Chris Raia Says Battlefield Drones Will Reach America, But The Hardware He Fears Isn’t What Washington Banned
FBI Deputy Director Chris Raia told Fox News Digital it is “only a matter of time” before the kind of drone attacks seen on battlefields in Ukraine and the Middle East reach the United States, and he framed a lone…
NASA Langley Flew Donated Kidneys 7.5 Miles By Drone, And The Aircraft It Chose Says Everything
NASA researchers in Hampton, Virginia, put two human kidneys on a heavy-lift drone and flew them in 7.5-mile loops beyond the operator’s line of sight, then biopsied the organs to check for damage. They found none. The June 5 flights…
Skydio’s Weapons Reversal, a DJI Avata 2 Police Disarm, and the World Cup Drone Crackdown
Welcome to your weekly US news update. I have three stories for you this week. The Skydio CEO walks back their no-weapon pledge, which is an interesting one. A Sacramento sheriff uses a DJI Avata 2 to disarm a suspect,…
St Paul Police Logged 472 DFR Flights in Four Weeks
The St Paul Police Department’s new dock-based Drone as First Responder program flew 472 missions in its first four weeks, already passing the 436 patrol-drone flights the department logged in all of 2025. The three rooftop Skydio X10 drones went…
Irvine Police Drone Catches Shoplifter in Truck Bed
The Irvine Police Department’s Drone as First Responder program ended a Walmart shoplifting case the same way it ends most calls these days, with the suspect on the ground and an aircraft watching from above. Officers arrested Guillermo Hazael Martinez…
Drone Smuggling Ring Hit 10 Prisons, DOJ Charges
A federal grand jury in Georgia indicted twelve people for running drones over the walls of ten federal prisons in eight states, dropping drugs, cell phones, and saw blades at least 38 times. Prosecutors call it the largest federal case…
Drone Nerds Adds RigiTech Eiger for 62-Mile Delivery
XTI Aerospace’s Drone Nerds division added the RigiTech Eiger, a long-range delivery drone rated for 62 miles (100 km) per mission, to its enterprise portfolio. The Swiss-built aircraft takes off vertically, flies like a fixed-wing plane, and needs no runway.…
Anduril Eyes Nissan’s Oppama Plant to Mass-Produce Japanese Drones, Turning a Car Factory Into a Weapons Line
Anduril Industries is in talks to buy Nissan’s Oppama assembly plant in Yokosuka, Japan, and convert the 64-year-old car factory into a production site for military drones. Reuters broke the story on June 25, 2026, citing three people familiar with…
DJI Mavic 4 Pro Creator Combo Drops $600 on Amazon
The DJI Mavic 4 Pro Creator Combo is on sale on Amazon right now for $3,400. That’s down from its standard $3,999 retail price, a 15 percent discount that puts $600 back in your pocket. The sale covers the full…
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