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Army’s Bumblebee V1 Turns a Drone Into a Drone Killer
The U.S. Army has a new answer to the drone threat, and it involves sending a drone to take care of it. Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division recently trained with the Bumblebee V1 counter-drone system at Fort Drum, New…
NATO Tests Flowcopter MEDEVAC Drone in Poland Exercise
American and Polish forces tested a gas-powered heavy-lift drone for battlefield casualty evacuation during Sabre Strike 2026 in Poland earlier this month, as METRO reported. The exercise marks one of the most visible NATO evaluations yet of autonomous unmanned systems…
Knightwerx Leaves California, Plants Flag in Scottsdale
Another defense tech company has made the call on California. Knightwerx, a tactical drone developer that built its name making compact military UAS, has moved its headquarters from Camarillo to Scottsdale, and it’s already hiring, as Hoodline reported. The move…
DJI SkyPixel 2026: The Best Drone Photos on the Planet
DJI just announced the winners of the 11th Annual SkyPixel Photo and Video Contest, and if you were feeling reasonably good about your drone footage, I’d recommend not scrolling too far. The competition drew nearly 95,000 submissions from 96 countries,…
Detroit Startup Birdstop Deploys Drones to Solve Truck Parking Crisis
A Detroit-based drone company just turned a very mundane problem into a surprisingly sophisticated aerospace application. Birdstop has deployed autonomous drones at two commercial truck parking sites in Detroit, using AI and computer vision to give drivers real-time visibility into…
Navy Tests Drone Kill Chain Against Caribbean Narco Boats
The U.S. Navy just ran a live exercise off Key West testing whether drones and AI can find, track, and engage suspected drug trafficking vessels in real time, as reported by the US Naval Institute. The exercise wasn’t a concept…
The DJI Flip Is Ugly. Buy It Anyway.
Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: the DJI Flip is not a pretty drone. It looks like someone strapped a camera to a tiny bicycle and called it a day. I’ve stared at it from multiple angles…
South Carolina Moves to Criminalize Prison Drone Drops
South Carolina lawmakers are closing a gap that’s been frustrating law enforcement for years. A bill dubbed the South Carolina Drone Regulation and Public Safety Act cleared a Senate committee unanimously this week, following a unanimous House vote last month,…
Paladin Drones Floats $8,000 30-Day DFR Trial As Flock Hands Out Free Pilots
Paladin Drones is offering public safety agencies a 30-day pilot of its Drone as First Responder system for $8,000, with the entry fee credited back against a full contract for up to three consecutive 30-day periods. The Houston company announced…
Ukraine Fiber Optic Spool Prices Jump More Than Eightfold As AI Data Center Demand Squeezes Drone Supply
A Ukrainian drone operator says his unit is now paying more than eight times what it used to for the fiber optic spools that feed their jam-proof FPV drones. Dimko Zhluktenko, co-founder of the Dzyga’s Paw charity fund and now…
DJI Air 4 Caught In Chinese Flight-Filing App, The First Registry-Level Sighting
The DJI Air 4 has surfaced inside a Chinese drone flight-reporting app, sitting in a dropdown menu of selectable aircraft alongside the already-shipping Insta360 Antigravity A1. The screenshot, posted Monday by drone leaker Igor Bogdanov on X with the caption…
FCC Extends Foreign Drone Firmware Waiver To January 2029, Concedes Cutting Off Patches Would Be Worse Than The Ban
The Federal Communications Commission‘s Office of Engineering and Technology released Public Notice DA 26-454 on Friday, May 8, 2026, extending its waiver for software and firmware updates to previously authorized foreign-made drones, UAS critical components, and consumer routers until at…
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