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TU Delft’s SquirrelDrone Morphs Its Whole Body to Fly, Ditching the Bird Playbook Everyone Else Copies
A research team at Delft University of Technology has built a drone that changes the shape of its entire body in flight the way a flying squirrel does, and the data says the trick works. The aircraft, called the SquirrelDrone,…
The New York Times Spent 10 Minutes On AI Farming And Forgot The Drones Spraying The Fields
The New York Times Magazine published a feature on June 5 about the technology rewiring American agriculture, and the one machine actually flying over these fields barely made the cut. Robotic milkers, laser weeders, and driverless tractors each got a…
2026 World Cup TFRs, 23-Day BVLOS Waivers, Flock Safety’s New Camera, and a Walmart Drone Delivery Fight
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. This week I have four stories for you, and they cover a lot of ground: the FAA has published the Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and you should…
AFRICOM’s CURTAIN CALL Swarm Cleared a Harder Test. Confirmed Kills Weren’t the Point.
U.S. Africa Command ran its CURTAIN CALL drone-swarm defense through a second field test at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California from April 27 to May 1, 2026, and this round added the threat the program was built to stop:…
CENTCOM Downs Four Iranian Attack Drones Over Strait of Hormuz as Ceasefire Frays
U.S. Central Command shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, then struck Iranian coastal radar sites in response, the latest kinetic exchange to test a ceasefire that has held in name only…
North Richland Hills Police Launch Skydio DFR Trial
North Richland Hills police are launching a Skydio Drone as First Responder trial this month, putting eyes on accident scenes and active emergencies before the first patrol unit arrives. Two docking stations will sit at a strategic central location in…
Echodyne Lands $490M Air Force Counter-Drone Deal as Ukraine’s Cheap Acoustics Spawn North American Rivals
The radar that can spot a quadcopter the size of a dinner plate at five kilometers is now wired into a $490 million U.S. Air Force counter-drone program. Echodyne, the Kirkland, Washington company behind the laptop-sized EchoShield radar, confirmed in…
The R7 Is A Chinese AI Drone-Killer You Can Buy In America. The FCC Says Hardware Like It Is Banned.
A Hong Kong seller is listing a Chinese-built autonomous interceptor drone on eBay for $6,999, shipping to U.S. addresses by UPS Ground, with payment plans starting around $336 a month. The listing, for a system called the R7 Portable AI…
Russia’s Yolka And A $6,999 eBay Drone-Killer: What The New York Post Got Right About The Threat, And Wrong
A New York Post opinion piece published June 4 argues that the cheap interceptor drones now shooting down attack drones over Ukraine and Russia represent an emerging threat to civilian aviation, and that copycat versions are already turning up on…
EHang Flies 22,580 Drones, Breaks Guinness Record
EHang shattered the Guinness World Record for drone light shows on February 3, 2026, flying 22,580 drones simultaneously from a single computer over Hefei’s Luogang Park. Of the swarm loaded for launch, only about 25 drones failed to lift off.…
Hezbollah Imports Ukraine’s Fiber-Optic Drone Playbook, and Israel Has No Jammer for It
Hezbollah is now killing Israeli soldiers with the same fiber-optic FPV drones that reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine, and Israel’s main counter-drone tool, electronic jamming, does nothing to stop them. Since April 2026, drones guided by thin optical cables have…
Good Drone Company Picks Kenya For Its First Real Logistics Network, Targeting Cargo Zipline Skips
The Good Drone Company has signed an exclusive partnership with Kenyan operator ThatcherX to fly autonomous cargo drones across Kenya, and the timing tells you where this is headed. The deal landed days after the two ran an inaugural flight…
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