January 2026

218 articles published on DroneXL in January 2026.

Jan 31 Ukraine Says Drones Now Destroy Over 80% of Enemy Targets, and Moscow Is Not Amused
Jan 31 Police Drone Tracks Heat to Catch Fatal Hit and Run Suspect
Jan 31 Dakota College Hosts sUAS Industry Bootcamp in 2026
Jan 31 Super Bowl Drone Ban Expands to San Francisco, Because Of Course It Does
Jan 31 SpaceX implements Starlink speed limit to ground Russian strike drones in Ukraine
Jan 31 Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office rolls out new policing drones
Jan 31 Hundreds of drones to light up Toyota Field in classical music performance
Jan 31 RQ-170 ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Filmed Taxiing at Creech AFB in Rare Daylight Footage Weeks After Venezuela Mission
Jan 31 Prison Drone Drops Turn Night Skies Into Smuggling Lanes
Jan 31 DJI Matrice 400 Update Fixes the Boring but Critical Stuff
Jan 31 Tiny Chihuahua Survives Blizzard With Drone Help
Jan 31 DJI Lito Rumors Hint at a New Lightweight Drone for 2026
Jan 30 DJI Mavic 4 Pro New Firmware Won’t Fix Your Flying
Jan 30 Drones and Waves Reveal a Smarter Way to Measure Ocean Currents
Jan 30 Drones, live feeds and LPRs power Paterson’s new RTOC
Jan 30 Ulysses’ Mako AUV and Fujitsu’s “Ocean Digital Twin” Are Exactly the Direction Underwater Drones Need
Jan 30 Princeton Police Launches DJI Matrice 4T Drone Program
Jan 30 FAA NOTAM Creates Mobile No-Fly Zones That Could Affect Drone Pilots Nationwide
Jan 29 DJI RS 5 Global Launch Brings Z-Axis Stabilization and 50% More Motor Torque to Filmmakers
Jan 29 Edwards Launches “Game of Drones” to Fast Track Drone Dominance
Jan 28 Agri Spray Drones and WinField United Team Up
Jan 28 Finnish Police Shoot Suspect Who Downed Their Drone In Nurmijärvi Standoff
Jan 28 Russia’s Starlink-Guided Shaheds Hit Moving Ukrainian Train, Kill 5: Musk Calls Polish FM ‘Drooling Imbecile’ For Demanding Action
Jan 28 DHS Drone Video Accidentally Advertises DJI
Jan 28 Western Chips Power Russia’s New Geran 5 Drone
Jan 28 Lasers Could Keep Military Drones Flying Forever
Jan 28 Ukraine’s Pay Per Kill Drone Program Scales Fast
Jan 27 Helsing And Stark Beat Rheinmetall For €600 Million German Loitering Munition Contracts
Jan 27 Anduril Launches AI Grand Prix: $500K Autonomous Drone Racing Competition Where Software Engineers Compete For Jobs
Jan 27 Antigravity A1 Adds Flight Simulator, Launches 15% Off Sale On The World’s First 8K 360 FPV Drone
Jan 27 FAA Reopens BVLOS Comment Period With Tight Two-Week Deadline
Jan 27 EnBW to Share Dock-Based Drone Strategy for Solar Inspections in Free Webinar
Jan 27 Bessemer’s 2026 Defense Roadmap: Autonomous Drones Move From Testing to Combat
Jan 27 SkyeBrowse Launches AI Quality Control for Crash Scene 3D Mapping
Jan 27 U-ELCOME and Eurocontrol Publish U-space Handbook: 70 Lessons That Could Accelerate BVLOS Operations Across Europe
Jan 27 US State Department vs. Olympic Drones: Security Officials Call Unmanned Aircraft a “Massive Issue” Ahead of Milano Cortina
Jan 27 Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Calls Dronebuster Colorful Words, Tells Soldiers To Demand Better
Jan 26 NOPD Seeks $740K for Drone-as-First-Responder Program While Privacy Groups Sound Alarm
Jan 26 Broads Authority deploys underwater drone to monitor UK waterways, slashing inspection costs
Jan 26 DJI Mini 4K hits all-time low price at Amazon with discounts up to $110 off
Jan 26 DJI Mini 5 Pro Best Settings Guide: Camera, Safety, and Control Settings I Use
Jan 26 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Pro: Exclusive Insights on the Mysterious New Pocket Camera
Jan 26 DJI Drone Helps Save 96 Year Old Woman From Fire
Jan 25 200 Million TikTok Users Got Four Deadline Extensions. ~850,000 Drone Pilots Got Nothing. Here’s Why.
Jan 25 DJI Drone Finds Missing Dog After Ohio Night Accident
Jan 25 This Mount Turns a DJI Mini Into a Handheld Camera
Jan 25 South Korea Seeks Drone Detection Fix After NK Incident
Jan 25 Knoxville Weighs Drones for 911 Response
Jan 24 DJI vs. TikTok: The Chinese Drone Giant Tried a US Strategy First, Then Abandoned It for Shell Companies
Jan 24 Pentagon Moves Toward Counter Drone Marketplace
Jan 24 Massachusetts’ Counter-UAS Plans For The FIFA World Cup Aren’t Cutting It
Jan 23 China’s PLA Demos 200-Drone Swarm Controlled by Single Soldier, Revealing the Pentagon’s Worst Nightmare
Jan 23 FAA NOTAM 6/4375 Bans Drones Near Federal Convoys, But Nobody Can See Where the Restrictions Are
Jan 23 House Homeland Security Chair Calls Drones a “New, Growing Frontier” of Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Jan 23 Anduril’s $1 Billion Long Beach Gamble: Why Palmer Luckey’s Drone Empire Is Doubling Down on Southern California
Jan 23 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Retail Box Leak Confirms Creator Combo, Reveals New Control Layout
Jan 23 FAA Adds Two New UAS Test Sites, NOAA Deploys Weather Drones, and SiFly Partners with Taranis for Crop Intelligence
Jan 23 China vs. Ukraine: FT Investigation Exposes Beijing’s Dual-Track Drone Strategy That Leaves Kyiv Behind
Jan 22 DJI Mini 4K Deal Alert: Three Bundle Configurations at 20% Off While Inventory Lasts
Jan 22 ABZ Innovation Raises €7M as European Ag Drone Maker Bets on Post-DJI Ban Opportunity
Jan 22 Georgia Army National Guard Launches State’s First FPV Drone Training Program
Jan 22 Drone Supremacy is no more: Why I’m rebranding my channel and expanding beyond drones
Jan 22 Insta360 App Tutorial: How To Edit Multiview and Split Screen Videos
Jan 22 Russia’s Geran-5 Jet Drone Uses Western Electronics
Jan 22 Michigan High School Trains Future Drone Pilots
Jan 22 Arlington Police Expand Drone First Response Program
Jan 22 FCC Confirms Drone Firmware Updates Will Continue Until January 2027
Jan 22 DJI Teases “Lead the Scene” Event for January 29th: RS5 Global Launch Incoming
Jan 22 Marine Corps Drone Training Finally Unveiled!
Jan 22 New Zealand Team Builds an “AI Chainsaw Drone” on a DJI Matrice Platform
Jan 21 Sterling Heights Brings Axon-Skydio DFR Program to Detroit Metro, Funded Entirely by Federal Forfeiture
Jan 21 Yosemite Visitors Fly Drones Freely as Ranger Shortage Guts NPS Enforcement
Jan 21 UK Ministry of Defence invests £240,000 in drone degree as Army confronts artillery’s decline
Jan 21 Zipline’s $7.6B Bet: The Economics of Delivering Burritos vs. Saving Lives
Jan 21 Ukraine’s Defense Ministry announces homegrown DJI Mavic replacement with longer range
Jan 20 Zipline reaches $7.6 billion valuation as Valor Equity Partners leads $600 million funding round
Jan 20 FCC Drone Ban Guarantees Higher Prices and Fewer Choices: NBC’s ‘Could’ is Wrong
Jan 20 Renault and Turgis Gaillard Confirm Drone Deal: Europe’s Struggling Automakers Found Their Exit Strategy
Jan 20 DJI Matrice 400 Gains Delivery Mode in New Firmware
Jan 20 DJI Avata 360 Preorders Are Live, But Buyers Should Read the Fine Print
Jan 20 Windracers Ultra Mk2 Pushes Drone Range To 2,000km
Jan 20 EagleNXT Moves Global HQ to Allen, Texas
Jan 20 Los Alamos Warns Drone Pilots to Stay Far Away
Jan 20 Lace folds a 3D printed drone into a backpack
Jan 20 Ukrainian Raybird Makes Combat Debut as Hydrogen Drone
Jan 20 Illegal Drone Flight Near Lake Louise Highlights Aviation Risk
Jan 20 Robot Dogs Join Japan’s Assault Force Test
Jan 19 Russia’s Shahed Production Surge: Ukraine’s Top Commander Warns of 1,000 Drones Per Day by 2026
Jan 19 Colombia launches $1.6B national anti drone shield
Jan 19 DJI Agras Meets an 82-Year-Old Farmer: China’s ‘Hardcore Grandma’ Proves Age Is No Barrier to Agricultural Drone Mastery
Jan 19 Opinion: DJI and The American Drone Delusion: We’re Not Catching Up, We’re Falling Behind
Jan 18 Lasar’s Group vs. NATO’s Drone Crisis: Inside Ukraine’s ‘McDonald’s’ Model That Europe Is Desperate To Copy
Jan 18 US Army Expands Drone Intel Sharing With Allies
Jan 18 Suspected Drone Disrupts Flights at Heathrow Airport
Jan 18 Drone Rescues Missing Kirkland Woman After Two Days
Jan 17 Caldwell Police Launch Idaho’s First DFR Program
Jan 17 Drones and Canines Search for Missing NC Teen
Jan 17 Japan to Send Drones to South America to Fight Illegal Fishing
Jan 16 Greenville Expands Drone Ops With Flock Safety Push
Jan 16 Replicator 2 Buys DroneHunter to Guard US Skies
Jan 16 Walmart and Wing Launch Drone Delivery in Houston
Jan 16 How To Make Your DJI Drone Last 5-7 Years With These Essential Maintenance Tips
Jan 16 My Minimalist DJI Travel Kit: Neo 2 Drone, Osmo 360, Action 6 and Essential Accessories
Jan 16 Drone News: Foreign Drone Ban Updates, DHS Creates Counter Drone Office, Super Bowl LX No-Fly Zone
Jan 16 EccoDrone Uses AI Drones to Clean Up Our Beaches
Jan 16 Milwaukee Police Launch Drone First Responders
Jan 16 Ambarella’s Hardware Hides In The Antigravity A1 Drone, and it’s a 360-Degree Disappointment
Jan 15 Drone Used by Ohio Deputies to Track Fugitive in the Woods
Jan 15 DJI RS 5 Finally Breaks Cover And It Means Business
Jan 15 FEMA & Massachusetts: $21.2 Million in C-UAS Grants Reveals the Real World Cup Security Playbook
Jan 15 DJI Accidentally Leaks the DJI Ronin RS5 on YouTube
Jan 15 Veteran DFR Operator’s 10,000-Flight Reality Check: Stop Panicking About The FCC Ban
Jan 15 300 Drones to Light Up Brooklyn for Kids’ Hospitals
Jan 15 Dutch Beach Rescue Brigades Adopt DJI Drones for Summer 2026, Following Australia’s Proven Model
Jan 15 Leaked DJI RS5 Video Shows Tracking That Can Outrun Athletes
Jan 15 Baton Rouge Police Deploy First Stalker VXE30 Drone
Jan 15 DJI Mini 4 Pro Hits 9% Discount on Amazon, But the Mini 5 Pro Upgrade Might Be the Smarter Play
Jan 15 Dassault’s $200M Harmattan Bet Completes France’s AI Defense Trifecta
Jan 15 Colorado Celebrates 150 Years With Massive Drone Shows
Jan 15 3D Printed Kit Turns DJI Osmo Nano Into Mini Hasselblad
Jan 15 Tennessee Deputies Use Drone to Find Suspect in Leaves
Jan 15 College of DuPage Wins $4M for Drone Training
Jan 14 DJI Mavic 4 Pro Hits Amazon With Up To 19% Discounts: Your Complete Buying Guide
Jan 14 How to Combine Multiple 360 Videos in the Insta360 App Without Desktop Software
Jan 14 Stop Blindly Copying Cinematic Drone Settings: Why the Internet’s Favorite Rules Are Ruining Your Footage
Jan 14 DJI Neo Three-Battery Combo Drops to $245 on Amazon, Making This the Best Entry Into Drones
Jan 14 Helsing’s Keybotic Acquisition Reveals Europe’s Real Defense Vulnerability: It’s Not in the Sky
Jan 14 US Army Buys EagleNXT eBee TAC Mapping Drones
Jan 14 Wingcopter Brings Long Range LiDAR Surveying to Japan
Jan 13 Bridgeport’s Flock Safety Drone Program Collapses Five Days After Launch Amid National Backlash
Jan 13 Tampa Police Add Skydio Drones and VR to Safety Toolkit
Jan 13 DJI Retires Mavic Mini and Osmo Pocket in 2026
Jan 13 FCC Drone Ban Threatens Agricultural Operations Warns Texas Farm Bureau
Jan 13 Ashburnham Police Drone Program Shows What Smart Public Safety Investment Looks Like
Jan 13 Mission Viejo’s Third Thermal Drone Dog Rescue Proves This Tech Isn’t a Gimmick
Jan 13 Germany Buys American Drones for Submarine Hunting While Brussels Debates European Alternatives
Jan 13 DJI Avata 2 Hits 15% Off on Amazon: Two FPV Combos Worth Considering Before Inventory Tightens
Jan 13 DHS Creates Permanent Counter-Drone Office: What the $115 Million Announcement Actually Means for Drone Pilots
Jan 13 DJI Power 1000 Mini launches in China
Jan 13 Sweden commits $440M to unmanned military drone systems
Jan 13 South Korea probes civilian role in alleged drone incursions
Jan 13 Cleveland Metroparks Tests Drones for Rescues and Police Calls
Jan 12 The AntiGravity A1 Drone Delivers on Its Promise: A Complete Beginner Flew It in Two Minutes
Jan 12 FCC’s New Drone Exemptions Open Loopholes for Retailers, But the Fine Print Matters
Jan 12 iFlight Nazgul Evoke 7 First Flight: The Nazgul 5’s Bigger Brother Handles Brutal Wind
Jan 12 DJI Power 2000 Drops to $699 on Amazon: 46% Off Makes This the Best Drone Field Charging Deal of 2026
Jan 12 Palantir Co-Founder Leads $11.8M Investment in Nigerian Drone Startup as African Defense Tech Emerges
Jan 12 Why Amazon’s Darlington Drone Flights Are a Calculation, Not Just a Test
Jan 12 China’s 1,118-Mile Cargo Drone Completes First Flight
Jan 12 Trout Rules Tighten as Drones Enter Tennessee Waters
Jan 12 Insta360 Ace Pro 2 vs DJI Osmo Action 6 in 8K at 10 Below Zero
Jan 12 Congress Wants Counter-Drone Powers at Wildfires, Not Just Stadiums
Jan 12 Wing and Walmart Just Made Drone Delivery a National Reality with 150-Store Expansion
Jan 12 Drone Soccer Helps Asheboro High School Build a STEM Powerhouse
Jan 12 Underwater Drones Reveal the Hidden Start of Algal Blooms
Jan 12 DJI Osmo Action 6 Gets Cloud Backup Support
Jan 12 DJI RS5 Gimbal Stabilizer to release on Jan 15 in China only
Jan 10 Commerce Department Drops Drone Restrictions as Trump Prioritizes Xi Diplomacy Over China Hawks
Jan 9 DJI’s Shell Company Gambit Backfired Spectacularly, and the Entire Drone Industry Paid the Price
Jan 9 DJI RS5 Leak Points to Smart, Slightly Annoying Upgrade
Jan 9 FCC Chairman Reveals New Drone Exemptions at CES 2026, Outlines Path to “American Drone Dominance”
Jan 9 A Silicon Valley Founder Exposed Why U.S. Drone Manufacturing Won’t Scale Anytime Soon
Jan 9 Amazon’s Drone Delivery Paradox: Green Light in UK, Red Flag in Italy
Jan 9 Las Vegas Police Now Run America’s Largest Drone Program, But Won’t Say What It Costs
Jan 9 AAIB’s “Record-Only” Kent Police Drone Crash Investigation Raises Troubling Questions About UK Police Drone Oversight
Jan 9 DJI Neo 2 Winter Flying Tips: How to Fly Safely in Snow and Cold
Jan 9 DJI Avata 360 Leaks Hint at a Very Near Launch
Jan 9 FAA Designates First New Drone Test Sites in Nearly a Decade: What It Means for Part 108
Jan 9 DJI Avata 360 Price Leak Undercuts Insta360 by Nearly Half, Plus World Speed Record Shattered
Jan 8 Super Bowl LX: FAA Grounds Drones Hard
Jan 8 Thermal Drones Are Keeping an Eye on Dolphins
Jan 8 Leaptic Cube Brings 8K Madness to a Thumb-Sized Camera
Jan 8 Bridgeport Launches Drone as First Responder Program
Jan 8 Is DJI Teasing a New Power Play Again?
Jan 8 DJI Neo 2 vs Hover Air X1 Pro Max Ski Test: One Crashed Repeatedly, One Just Worked
Jan 8 DJI Power 1000 V2 review: 2,600W output in a package that won’t wake the neighbors
Jan 8 DJI Osmo Action 6 Accessories Guide: What I Actually Use In The Field
Jan 8 FCC Exempts Blue UAS Drones From Foreign Ban, But the Clock Is Already Ticking
Jan 8 DJI Neo 2 Gauntlet Test: From Tight Trails To Abandoned Resorts At 48 km/h
Jan 7 Pilot Institute Survey: 8,056 Operators Reveal DJI Ban Will Devastate American Drone Industry
Jan 7 DJI Osmo Mobile 8 Review: Who Actually Needs a Smartphone Gimbal in 2025?
Jan 7 DJI Neo vs Neo2 vs Hover Air X1 Pro Max: I Tested All Three in Extreme Cold
Jan 7 Ukraine’s New Drone Is Basically an Aerial Interceptor on Energy Drinks
Jan 7 Runaway Retriever vs the Turnpike, Drones Win
Jan 7 SmallRig S70: The Wireless Mic Getting Dangerously Small
Jan 7 Gilbert Tests Various Drones as First Responders
Jan 6 YouTuber Jeven Dovey Warns Content Creators: FCC Drone Ban Is Worse Than You Think
Jan 6 FCC Drone Ban Starts Countdown That Will Affect Every American
Jan 6 Eric Schmidt’s AI Drones Hit 70% Kill Rate as Commercial Tech Goes to War
Jan 6 Jersey Shore’s ‘Drone Ranger’ Has Saved 122 Missing Pets
Jan 6 Skydio X10 Drone Becomes First on Scene in Fairfax County Police Calls
Jan 5 DJI Drone Finds Couple After Ice Rescue on Saginaw Bay
Jan 5 Drones to Deliver Blood in Wales Life Saving Trial
Jan 5 RQ-170 Sentinel Drone Watched Maduro’s Fall In Venezuela
Jan 5 DJI Mini 5 Pro Prop Guards Hands-On: The Firmware Restrictions Nobody Mentioned
Jan 4 Shahed Drones Now Shoot Back: Russia Arms Kamikaze With MANPADS
Jan 4 Chip War Author: FCC Ban Succeeds Where Trump Tariffs Failed Against DJI
Jan 4 St. Cloud DFR’s 200 Flights Prove BVLOS Works, But at What Cost?
Jan 4 FCC Chair Brendan Carr Takes Victory Lap at CES: The Stage Where DJI Built America’s Drone Culture
Jan 4 DJI Matrice Drone Used in Campbellsville Missing Person Search
Jan 4 Meet the UAVs Used at the US Department of War’s “Drone School”
Jan 4 Wichita Police Drone Tracks Circle K Robbery Suspect
Jan 4 Police Test Autonomous DFR Drones in Grand Chute
Jan 4 Luke Maximo Bell’s Peregreen V4 goes 408 mph, New Guinness “Fastest Drone” Record Holder
Jan 3 How UC Santa Cruz Is Using Drones to Help Communities Read Air Quality Before It’s Too Late
Jan 3 Walmart’s Drones Are Eyeing Tampa Backyards Next
Jan 3 Drones Take on Mosquitoes in California’s Coachella Valley
Jan 3 Drones vs Spoiled Vaccines: Rwanda Finds a Fix
Jan 3 Hong Kong may get passenger drones by 2027, keep arms inside the aircraft
Jan 3 FCC Foreign Drone Ban Could Hit US Farmers Where It Hurts Most
Jan 3 Ukraine’s Drone Architect Named Defense Minister in Major Strategy Shift
Jan 3 Drone Rescue, XPrize Wildfire Competition, 4-Hour Flight Record, and FAA Waiver Changes
Jan 3 Oklahoma Prisons Step Up Drone Defenses After 6,000 Phones Smuggled In
Jan 3 Drone Helps Rescue Lost Hiker in Oregon Woods
Jan 2 DJI Avata 360 Price Leak: Cheap in China, Emotional Damage in the US
Jan 2 Stranger Things Drone Show Turns Vegas Upside Down
Jan 2 FEMA’s $500M Counter-Drone Program Launches With World Cup Funding
Jan 1 Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works Shows Off AI That Can Replan a Drone Mission Mid-Flight