April 2026

195 articles published on DroneXL in April 2026.

Apr 30 European Commission Opens EU Aviation Strategy Consultation, And Drone Operators Have Until May 21 To Weigh In
Apr 30 DJI Agricultural Drone Fleet Hits 600,000 As EU Moves To Lift Aerial Spray Ban; Italy’s Implementation Decree Stalls
Apr 30 Florida Signs Vertiport Funding Law, Setting Up December 2026 Commercial Air Taxi Target
Apr 30 LAPD Drones Challenge a 70-Year Helicopter Monopoly Above LA
Apr 30 United Walks Back San Diego “Drone Strike” After Boeing 737 Inspection Shows No Damage
Apr 30 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Launch Spot Was Filmed With A Sony FX3 Across South Africa And Hong Kong
Apr 30 Can The LITO 1 Create Cinematic Footage?
Apr 29 US Marines Deploy AI Rifle Scope Against Iranian Drones
Apr 29 Eurovision 2026 Opens With Europe’s Largest Drone Show
Apr 29 After Lahaina, Hawaiian Electric Bets on Drone Inspections
Apr 29 An-28 Becomes World’s First Drone-Launching Drone Hunter
Apr 29 Minneapolis Drone Journalist Rob Levine Forces FAA To Pull No-Fly Zones That Followed Invisible ICE Vehicles Across America
Apr 29 Russia Builds Shahed Drones With Teen Labor at Alabuga
Apr 28 Airbus Flexrotor Takes Night Watch on Federal Wildfire Contract, Eyes Helicopter Hand-Off
Apr 28 LAPD Skydio Drones Orbited No Kings Protest for Seven Hours, Flight Records Show
Apr 28 Antigravity A1 Spring Update Delivers Omnidirectional Obstacle Avoidance, Voice Control, and Timelapse
Apr 28 DJI Teases Mic Mini 2S With Internal Recording and Four-Transmitter Support, Skipping the US
Apr 28 DJI Mic Mini 2 Now on Sale Globally With Ten Magnetic Cover Colors Starting at €33
Apr 28 DJI RS5 Gimbal Beginner’s Guide: Setup, Balancing, and Filming Techniques
Apr 28 DJI Osmo Mobile 8P to launch globally, May 7th
Apr 27 Drones Hit Record Number of UK Air Ambulance Missions
Apr 27 New Jersey Spray Drone Theft Ends With Recovery, But No Arrests as Federal Investigation Stays Open
Apr 27 Skyports Begins Year-Long East River Medical Drone Run Between Manhattan and Brooklyn
Apr 27 Donecle’s €10M Inspection Drone Raise Meets America’s Aircraft Mechanic Shortage
Apr 27 DJI SkyPixel 11th Contest Names ‘Africa Unseen’ Best Video As Submissions Fall By A Third
Apr 27 Joby Aviation Flies JFK to Manhattan in NYC’s First Point-to-Point eVTOL Demos
Apr 27 Beijing’s Drone Ban Takes Effect Friday, Squeezing DJI On Its Home Turf
Apr 27 NASA’s Dragonfly Octocopter Hits Three Build Milestones Ahead of 2028 Titan Launch
Apr 27 BRINC Drones Land in Victorville for $832K DFR Rollout
Apr 26 Cobb Police Deploy Skydio Drones to Track Murder Suspect in I-75 Corridor
Apr 26 The Army Picked Atlas Over Better Drones. Here’s Why
Apr 25 NASA Is Sending Organs by Drone, And It Actually Makes Sense
Apr 25 The $30,000 Drones That Cost Amazon $150 Million
Apr 25 DJI Neo at $149: The Cheapest Entry Point Into DJI’s Ecosystem
Apr 25 Spokane Buys Four Skydio X10 Drones Ahead of World Cup 2026
Apr 25 AFA Gabriel Chapter Funds Drone Program at Leesburg CAP
Apr 24 Oppo Confirms Gimbal Camera to Rival DJI Osmo Pocket 4
Apr 24 Parrot ANAFI USA to Patrol Skies at 2026 World Cup
Apr 24 Navy’s First Carrier Laser Test Destroys Multiple Drones
Apr 24 Airbus A400M to Launch 12 Cruise Missiles or 50 Drones
Apr 24 Australia Bets $5B on Laser and Interceptor Drone Defense
Apr 24 VooMax Breeze Is A Fikaxo Rebrand of a DJI Drone—And Fikaxo Doesn’t Even List It
Apr 24 FAA Launches DETER Enforcement Program, DJI Lito Leaks, FlyCart 200, and SiFly ADS-B Integration
Apr 24 Army Opens Flightwerx Drone Hub Next to Fort Rucker
Apr 23 VooMax Breeze 8K Lands On Amazon The Same Day DJI Says Lito X1 Will Never Ship To America
Apr 23 DJI Lito X1 Review: Why This Entry-Level Drone Redefines What Beginners Should Expect
Apr 23 Skydio’s Adam Bry Says DJI Tried To Buy The Company In 2014. Twelve Years Later, DJI Can’t Sell Its Drones In Much Of America.
Apr 23 Skydio Raises $110M Series F At $4.4B Valuation, And The CEO Says The Small Size Is The Point
Apr 23 FBI Probes Theft Of 15 Agricultural Spray Drones In New Jersey As Iran War Heightens Bioterror Fears
Apr 23 DJI Lito X1 And Lito 1 Launch Globally, Wedging Into The Mini Gap American Buyers Will Never See
Apr 22 Iranian Operative Nabbed at LAX Over $70M Sudan Drone Deal
Apr 22 Skydio CEO Joins Ramapo Police DFR Demo for Rockland Chiefs
Apr 22 DJI Upgrades SkyPixel Winner To A Mavic 4 Pro After US Customs Swallows Her Original Prize Drone
Apr 22 DJI Avata 360 First Flight: My Raw, Uncut & Unsponsored First Impressions
Apr 22 DJI Tells Ninth Circuit 25 Unreleased Products Are Now In Regulatory Limbo, With $1.56 Billion At Stake In 2026
Apr 22 Navy MQ-4C Triton Spies on Cuba in 12-Hour Drone Mission
Apr 21 DJI Avata 2 Vs A $15,000 Red Komodo Cinelifter: Iceland Test Exposes The Real FPV Trade-Off
Apr 21 China’s “Land Aircraft Carrier” Powers Drones Mid-Flight
Apr 21 DJI Launches Mic Mini 2 With Ten Faceplate Colors And A €33 Starting Price
Apr 21 DJI Lito 1 And Lito X1 Pricing Surfaces On Italian Retailer Two Days Before Launch, No US Release Expected
Apr 21 Pentagon Requests $75 Billion For Drones In FY27, With DAWG Getting The Largest Year-Over-Year Boost Of Any Defense Program
Apr 21 IARPA Wants Drone Engines That Rot: New RFI Targets Bio-Derived Propulsion for Missions That Leave No Trace
Apr 21 France Tests Drone-Armed Combat Cells in ORION 26 Drills
Apr 21 Reliable Robotics Raises $160 Million As SpaceX Alum Pushes FAA For First Commercial Uncrewed Cargo Cert
Apr 21 DJI launches DJI Osmo Mobile 8P in China with remote control
Apr 21 Coors Field Drone Incursions Prompt Federal Warning
Apr 21 DJI releases DJI FlyCart 200, T200 drones with 200kg payload capacity, multi-drone control
Apr 20 GoPro Mission 1 Pro Hands-On: 50+ New Features, 1-Inch Sensor, 8K60, and Interchangeable Lenses
Apr 20 Aevex Stock Doubles in Two Days as Wall Street Bets Big on Military Drone Makers
Apr 20 24 MQ-9 Reapers Lost Over Iran: A $720 Million Problem
Apr 20 NOAA’s New Ocean Drone Can Replace A Lost Weather Buoy
Apr 20 Ukraine Scales Robotic Ground Assaults To 9,000 Missions A Month As Zelensky Pitches Unmanned Warfare To Europe
Apr 20 DJI Osmo Mobile 9 with Remote Coming April 21st
Apr 20 DJI Power 1000 Mini Review Lands With An 8/10 From The Verge, US Sale Still In Limbo
Apr 20 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 vs Pocket 3: Is the Upgrade Worth It?
Apr 20 FAA Picks Palantir, Thales, and Airspace Intelligence to Build AI That Predicts Flight Conflicts Two Hours Out
Apr 20 Terrahaptix Builds Africa’s Largest Drone Factory in Ghana as JNIM and ISIS Drive Sahel Arms Race
Apr 19 UK’s Biggest Drone Package Yet: 120,000 UAVs for Ukraine
Apr 19 DJI Lito X1 Spec Sheet Leaked by a Canadian Dealer
Apr 19 Sapient Raises €2M for 10K Drone Cameras Used in Ukraine
Apr 19 DJI Books NAB Show 2026 Booth While Americans Can’t Buy The Pocket 4
Apr 19 FAA DETER Program Lets First-Time Drone Violators Trade Appeal Rights For Smaller Fines
Apr 19 Kraken KATFISH Launches Itself From Turkish Navy Drone Boat
Apr 19 Japan’s $450 Wooden Drone Is a Ukraine Lesson in Plywood
Apr 19 DJI Mini 5 Pro Review At Six Months: YouTuber Flying Filmmaker Says Camera Wins, Wind Still Hurts
Apr 18 Ukraine Reveals Sichen: 870-Mile Strike Drone Already in Combat
Apr 18 Drone Delivery Could Unlock $16B in Profits, Barclays Says
Apr 18 China’s HH-200 Cargo Drone Flies First Mission with 1.5-Ton Load
Apr 18 Tom Stanton Builds A 3D Printed Windup Plane That Flies 45 Seconds On A 4 Second Charge
Apr 17 Okanagan Lake DJI Drone Pilot Fined CAD $5,000 After Helicopter Pilot Broke Off Firefighting to Chase Him
Apr 17 Hyfix Raised $15M to Out-Engineer DJI. Now Comes the Hard Part
Apr 17 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Creator Combo Unboxing: What You Get in the Box
Apr 17 Pentagon Urges FCC to Reject DJI’s Petition: What This Means for Drone Pilots
Apr 17 Cam Mackey Ties DJI Pocket 4 US Absence To Political Money And Defense Investments
Apr 17 Skydio’s $9M USAFCENT Deal Puts X10s on Middle East Bases
Apr 17 FAA Replaces Controversial ICE NOTAM, Pentagon Cites Classified Intel Against DJI, and DJI Teases New Lido Drone
Apr 17 DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Leaks: Dual-Lens Pro Model Next
Apr 17 DJI Avata 360 vs Antigravity A1: Jeven Dovey Calls The 360 Drone Contest Closer Than DJI’s Price Tag Suggests
Apr 17 How to Pair Goggles and Controllers to the DJI Avata 360
Apr 17 Flock’s Jail Drone Wants to Expand to 19 County-Wide
Apr 16 Oakland Taps DJI Mavic 3 Drones to Fight Illegal Dumping
Apr 16 GoPro Unveils Mission One Lineup: 8K Recording, Micro Four Thirds Support, and the End of the Hero Era
Apr 16 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Review: Why This Isn’t Just a Small Upgrade Over the Pocket 3
Apr 16 DJI Pocket 4 First Look: 1-Inch Sensor, 4K/240fps, and Everything New
Apr 16 The $209 DJI Mini 4K Is the Best Starter Drone Right Now
Apr 16 How to Transfer and Edit DJI Avata 360 Footage on Mobile Devices
Apr 16 Jeven Dovey Crashes Mavic 4 Pro in Sport Mode on Eastern Sierras Overland Trip
Apr 16 Philip Bloom Tests Antigravity A1 vs DJI Avata 360 vs Mini 5 Pro: The 360 Drone Verdict
Apr 16 101st Airborne launches Aerosonde drone at JRTC
Apr 16 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Launches With 4K/240fps And 107GB Storage, But Not For US Buyers
Apr 16 EV Battery Tech Extends Ukraine Drone Range by 46%
Apr 15 FAA publishes FDC 6/2824, scrapping the ‘ICE NOTAM’ blanket drone ban and adopting ‘Department of War’ language
Apr 15 DJI Lito drones leaked ahead of April 23 launch
Apr 15 DJI Matrice fleet helps Kingston Police rescue resident
Apr 15 Oakland County OKs Flock Drones Despite Privacy Revolt
Apr 15 DJI Modify 1.6 Sharpens Its 3D Modeling Toolkit
Apr 14 GoPro Launches 8K Cinema Cameras With 1-Inch Sensors
Apr 14 Ukraine Captures Russian Position Using Only Drones and Ground Robots.
Apr 14 Army Troops Test Anti-Drone Bullets for Standard Rifles
Apr 14 Japan Drops Apaches, Bets $70M on Drones Instead
Apr 14 Army Tests Golden Shield Anti-Drone Net at Fort Hood
Apr 14 EASA Releases Revision 24 of Air Operations Rules With Gyroplane and Flight Data Monitoring Updates
Apr 14 FCC Wants Your Input on Drone Spectrum and Licensing Before May 1 Deadline
Apr 14 U.S. Startup Hunts FPV Drones Using Sound Alone
Apr 14 DJI Teases “More Than Sound” Audio Product for April 28 as Mic Mini 2 Speculation Builds
Apr 14 DJI Teases Lito Drone Launch for April 23 After Months of FCC Leaks and Speculation
Apr 14 DJI Power 1000 Mini Global Launch Set for April 20
Apr 14 DJI Avata 360 loses FPV shootout to Avata 2 in back-to-back flight test
Apr 13 DJI Avata 360 Opens US Orders at $719 After American Buyers Waited Weeks While the Rest of the World Flew
Apr 13 7 underrated drone YouTube channels you need to watch right now
Apr 13 Comprehensive Drone Buyers Guide 2026 – Best Drones For Beginners to Pros
Apr 13 DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise Maps Greenland’s Fastest-Moving Glacier
Apr 13 The Bird, the Nest, and the Soldier Who Lost His Arm
Apr 13 Ukraine Gets First Linza Drones From German-Ukrainian JV
Apr 13 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Press Images Leaked by Quadro_news
Apr 12 DJI Mini 5 Pro Hits Record Low at Amazon This Weekend
Apr 12 Fourth Ukrainian Drone Found in Finland as Iitti Discovery Widens Straying Pattern
Apr 12 Honeywell Puts Counter-Drone AI on a Long-Range VTOL
Apr 11 Pentagon Cites Classified Intelligence In Opposition To DJI’s FCC Petition, Raising The Stakes In Drone Ban Fight
Apr 11 NSU Trains Fort Polk Soldiers on Drone Operations
Apr 11 FAA Clears Military to Use Anti-Drone Lasers in U.S. Airspace After Two-Month Standoff
Apr 10 XDOWN’s STUD Drone Goes From Backpack to Airborne in 2 seconds Flat
Apr 10 Colorado Springs Drones First on Scene 61% of Calls
Apr 10 FAA’s eIPP lets Wisk and Reliable Robotics fly commercial before certification, and that changes everything
Apr 10 No Replacement for DJI, FCC Opens Public Comments, and Oregon Wants New Drone Test Sites
Apr 10 US Army Grenadier System Adds Counter-Drone Ammo After 18 Years
Apr 10 Ukraine’s Petcube Founder Built AI Drones That Strike Without a Pilot, and Investors Are Lining Up
Apr 9 Skyrover Pledges to Stay in the US, But Its DJI Ties Raise Questions the Five-Year Plan Doesn’t Answer
Apr 9 FCC Chairman Brendan Carr climbs 2,000-foot tower, and it looks like a drone captured the whole thing
Apr 9 Harvard Students Build Fixed-Wing VTOL Drone to Track Sperm Whales in Dominica
Apr 9 Avinox M2S and M2 Push DJI’s E-Bike Motor Ambitions to 1,500W and 150 Nm
Apr 9 JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Calls for US Drone Production, Backs $1.5 Trillion Security Initiative
Apr 9 DJI Confirms Osmo Pocket 4 Launch for April 16, Single-Camera Design Now Official
Apr 9 FirePoint’s $2.5 Billion UAE Deal Rejected Before It Could Begin
Apr 9 Vidun Fixed-Wing Interceptor Gets Ukraine Military Approval, But Procurement Delays Are Already Cutting Production
Apr 8 Terra Drone Invests in Ukraine’s Amazing Drones and Launches Terra A1 Interceptor to Target the Global Defense Market
Apr 8 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Photographed Up Close by OsitaLV Ahead of Expected April Launch
Apr 8 DJI Neo 2 Has a Phone-Only Spotlight Trick That Blows Past the Preset Tracking Distances
Apr 8 RCTESTFLIGHT Builds 41-Inch Variable Pitch Quadcopter That Outperforms Direct Drive on Efficiency
Apr 8 Drone Catches Fleeing Driver in Beaverton Backyards
Apr 8 First DJI Pocket 4 Unboxing Points to April 16 Launch
Apr 7 Hermeus raises $350M to build the fastest unmanned aircraft in the world
Apr 7 General Cherry and Orqa Sign MoU to Build Counter-Drone Systems on European Soil
Apr 7 The Verge Confirms What We’ve Been Saying: Nobody Is Replacing DJI, and Drones Are Now for War
Apr 7 BBC’s Secret 950-Drone Titanic Stuns Belfast Harbor
Apr 7 WSJ exposes Chinese parts inside America’s humanoid robots, and Congress is already running the DJI playbook
Apr 7 Oregon Tells FCC: Build Drone Test Sites in Mountains, Not Just Labs
Apr 7 No Pilot Required: Skyports and HOCHTIEF Are Surveying a German Bridge From Spain
Apr 6 Skydio Opens Zürich R&D Office, Returning Its Own Alumni to the Lab That Trained Them
Apr 6 FCC Opens Public Comment on Spectrum and Licensing Reforms to Advance U.S. Drone Industry
Apr 6 Mithril Defense Puts Pepper-Gel Drones in High School Hallways — And Two States Are Paying for It
Apr 6 Chinese Researchers Release Open-Source Flight Control Software for Bamboo Drones
Apr 6 DJI Avata 360 Firmware Update: This Is the Unlock You’ve Been Waiting For
Apr 6 Mystery Drones Over Barksdale AFB: What We Actually Know
Apr 6 FPV Drone Strikes U.S. Black Hawk at Baghdad Base
Apr 6 DJI Avata 360 beginner’s guide: Getting ready for your first flight
Apr 6 South Korea’s Lee Becomes First President to Express Regret to North Korea Over Civilian Drone Incursions
Apr 5 Ukraine built an Amazon for combat drones, and no other military can match it
Apr 5 China built the world’s drone industry, now it’s grounding its own pilots
Apr 4 DJI Pocket 4 Packaging Leak Confirms Every Spec Buyers Were Hoping For
Apr 4 The U.S. government just gave drone haters a free pass to report you
Apr 4 DJI Avata 360: Powerful tracking without any editing required
Apr 4 DJI Avata 360 vs. Antigravity A1: Don’t buy until you watch this
Apr 4 ACLU releases major drone surveillance report, House passes ACERO Act, and South Carolina considers restrictive drone bill
Apr 4 Japan Deploys Drones for Nighttime Wildfire Mapping
Apr 4 DJI Lito 1 and X1: From a Leg to the Full Picture
Apr 3 Poland Builds Its Own Shahed. They’re Calling It PLargonia.
Apr 3 Drone and Divers Recover Body of Missing 11-Year-Old in Indiana River
Apr 3 Ukrainian Students Race Combat Drones in Kyiv. The Winner Flew It in 36 Seconds.
Apr 2 Rosemount PD Joins Drone Network Logging 1,300 Flights a Year
Apr 2 Window-Washing Drone Startup Lucid Bots Raises $20M
Apr 2 Amazon Prime Air MK30 at XPONENTIAL Europe Düsseldorf: A Heavy Drone With a Crash Problem
Apr 2 SkyeBrowse Brings Drone 3D Models Into Your Office With Apple Vision Pro and Expands DJI Fleet Support
Apr 2 Disney World Has a No-Fly Zone. Now It Has Teeth.
Apr 1 Army Launches Altius-700 Drone From an Apache in Under Six Months