May 2026

173 articles published on DroneXL in May 2026.

May 31 Zelenskyy Tells Face the Nation the U.S. Drone Deal Still Needs One Thing: Trump to Say Yes
May 31 FAA Publishes World Cup TFR Venue List, And Part 107 Authorizations Stop At The Stadium Ring
May 31 AI Drones Give 5-Week Warning on Vibrio Outbreaks
May 31 Minneapolis Studies DFR Pilot in North Minneapolis
May 31 Palm Desert Eyes Police DJI Drones Amid Privacy Questions
May 31 Palm Beach Fire Rescue Adds Drones for Hurricane Season
May 31 Walmart Hits 1M Drone Deliveries, 40% This Quarter
May 30 Basalt PD Pitches $50K Drone Stations to Council
May 30 Bat-Inspired Drone Navigates Smoke, Snow, Darkness
May 30 Lee County Deploys Skydio X10 for Sterile Mosquito Releases
May 29 TU Delft Drone Flies 600 Meters Home On 42 Kilobytes By Copying A Honeybee
May 29 Vermeer Bets American Strike Drones Are Useless Without a GPS Replacement
May 29 DJI Clears an Independent U.S. Cybersecurity Audit, a Custom FPV Drone Hits 730 km/h, and SkyeBrowse Drops Another Major Update
May 29 Russian Drone Hits Romanian Apartment Block in Galați, First Injuries on NATO Soil as Bucharest Weighs Article 4
May 28 FAA Law Makes That Viral “Claude Squirrel-Hunting Drone” Illegal Three Times Over
May 28 Pentagon Floats Equity Stakes In U.S. Drone Startups As Trump Administration Tries To Buy Its Way Out Of A Production Deficit
May 28 HOVERAir AQUA Launches In 50+ Countries Today, US Buyers Locked Out By FCC Foreign Drone Ban
May 28 DJI’s New U.S. Security Audit By OnDefend Finds No Backdoors, No Foreign Data Transmission In Air 3S And Matrice 4E
May 28 Tymur Fatkullin Hunts Russian Shaheds In A Six-Ton Skydiving Plane, And The New Yorker Just Profiled Him
May 28 Kalashnikov’s SKAT-220 and Its 99 MPH Speed Claim
May 28 Skydio, BRINC and a Robot Dog Join Louisiana Patrols
May 28 DJI Matrice Drones Cut Teesside Inspections to 16 Min
May 28 St. Louis OKs Six BRINC Drones Amid ‘Rushed’ Vote
May 28 NASA’s First Moon Drones Won’t Fly. They’ll Hop.
May 28 MIT and Penn Open-Source MIGHTY, a Drone Motion Planner That Cuts Out Six-Figure Commercial Software
May 27 Wyoming PD Goes from One Drone to Three on $26K Vote
May 27 NYPD Spends $6.5M To Stand Up Counter-Drone Unit Built To Outlast The World Cup
May 27 Nashville Police Launch 45-Day Skydio DFR Pilot
May 27 Green Berets Drop 500-lb Glider Drones in NATO Drill
May 27 Dallas PD Drone Saves Man From I-45 a Day After DFR Launch
May 27 SkyRover X1 Crashes to $449, a $309 Cut on the Sub-249g 4K Foldable
May 27 U.S. Navy Tests SEAL Mini-Subs Teamed With Drones
May 27 Alaska Drone Module Tracks Spot Fires To Contain Sawmill Creek Blaze At 14.8 Acres
May 27 Durham Police DJI Drone Locates Wanted Suspect In Pickering Greenspace
May 26 Seminole Council Kills Walmart’s Pinellas Drone Hub In 4-3 Vote
May 26 OCFA Tracks Rogue Drone Pilots By Remote ID At Garden Grove Chemical Tank Crisis
May 26 Russia’s Geran-4 Jet Drone Was Built To Beat Ukraine’s $2,000 Interceptors, GUR Says
May 26 Pentagon’s $500 Million Counter-Drone Deal Turns Ukraine’s Cheap-Interceptor Math Into U.S. Doctrine
May 25 LOC8 Plus Skydio Run Coconino’s AI Search Engine
May 25 Ukraine’s Shahed-Killing Drones Became the Export Gulf Monarchies and U.S. Commanders Now Want
May 25 1,600 Drones Break Brightness Record For He-Man
May 25 Eight Skydio Drones Now Fly Dallas 911 Calls
May 25 DJI Matrice 300 Recovers Stolen Telehandler
May 23 Vanderbilt’s Campus DFR Goes Live With Skydio X10
May 23 Amazon Wants Idaho Sky Next: Nampa Vote May 26
May 23 One Drone Empties a NATO Capital
May 22 DJI Lito and Lito X1 Beginner’s Guide: How to Fly Your New Drone
May 22 Benjamin Biggs’ Blackbird Drone Tops 730 km/h, But The 685 km/h Average Won’t Count
May 22 Autel Fights Back Against the FCC, Michigan Drone Bills Stall, and a Thermal Drone Saves a Life
May 22 Detroit’s ESSPI Joins Blueflite-Munson Drone Trials
May 21 DJI Responds To Ontario Ban, Calls Decision Country-Of-Origin Move Without Proven Evidence
May 21 Ukraine’s 5th Assault Brigade Trades $2,000 Sting Drones For $50,000 Russian Shaheds On Camera
May 21 Belarus Unveils Scanner 2.1 Acoustic Drone Detection System
May 21 Ontario Bans Chinese Drones For Sensitive OPP Work, Plans Broader Government Phase-Out
May 21 U.S. Navy Tests BlackSea GARC and Seasats Lightfish in Norway
May 21 DJI FlyCart 30 Maps Timor-Leste Manganese 800 Meters Down
May 21 DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise Saves Man in Dumpster at Minus 20
May 21 CiS Unveils ORKA Dock, A Self-Operating Drone Hangar Built To Launch From Moving Uncrewed Boats
May 20 Russian Drones Attack CNN Crew 14 Times On Ukraine’s ‘Road Of Life’
May 20 The FAA Controls the Sky, But Can Cities Ban Your Backyard Drone?
May 20 DJI Avata 360 vs. DJI Avata 2: Which FPV Drone Should You Buy?
May 20 Why Fulshear PD Chose DJI Matrice 350 RTK Over Skydio X10
May 20 BAE, Anduril Shortlisted for UK Apache Wingman Drone
May 20 Flytrex Sky2 Doubles Past Rivals With 8.8-Pound Payload
May 19 Bloomington Tests Skydio X10 DFR Drones for First Response
May 19 Australia Picks PteroDynamics Transwing VTOL for Navy Logistics
May 19 Autel Tells FCC The Drone Ban Rests On Secret Evidence And Borrowed Allegations Aimed At DJI
May 19 DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo Drops to $1,099 on Amazon
May 19 Amazon Prime Air Picks Baton Rouge For Summer MK30 Drone Delivery Launch
May 18 DJI Lito X1 Matches Mini 5 Pro Camera Quality In UK Creator’s Blind Test, At Almost Half The Price
May 18 Sentrycs Scout: Man-Portable Cyber-Over-RF Counter-Drone Kit
May 18 Russian Fiber-Optic Drone Headed For Children Was Stopped By A 12-Year-Old Boy In A Pear Tree
May 18 Monocrystal Files For Bankruptcy After Ukrainian Drone Strike And Sanctions Strip Its Markets
May 18 Dallas Adds $10.3M to Axon for World Cup Counter-Drone
May 17 Thermal Drone Finds 91-Year-Old in Wisconsin Woods at Night
May 17 Cuba Now Holds 300 Russian And Iranian Military Drones Within 90 Miles Of Key West, U.S. Intelligence Tells Axios
May 16 FBI Counter-Drone Force For World Cup 2026 Will Run Just 60 Officers Across 11 Host Cities
May 16 Drone Delivery Sandwiches Land at Papa Johns Stores
May 16 DSPA Urges FAA To Use Section 2209 NPRM To Preempt 25 State Drone Airspace Laws
May 15 FlyGuys Backs Elevate Scholarship for Second Year
May 15 Chula Vista PD’s DFR Drone Program Crosses 25,000 Missions
May 15 FCC Extends Foreign Drone Firmware Waiver to 2029, FAA Locks Down World Cup Airspace, Pierce Aerospace Builds Remote ID Network for NASA
May 14 DJI Debuts Osmo Pocket 4P at Cannes Film Festival, Press Release Holds Back Specs and US Availability
May 14 Michigan House Passes 2 Of 15 SHIELD Drone Bills, Both Aimed At Chinese-Made Aircraft Procurement
May 14 Fresno’s Skydio X10 Drones Catch Dick’s Sporting Goods Thieves
May 14 German Researchers Fire Steel Chains to Down Drones
May 14 DJI ROMO to Launch New Version As Reservations Go Live in China
May 14 Drone Security Is The FCC’s Job, Not DOT’s: Owen Morgan Tells XPONENTIAL Robotics Panel
May 13 Robinson Unmanned At XPONENTIAL: Spirit Modular Demo Impresses; Helius Pre-Orders Wait Another Six Months
May 13 Manna Air Delivery’s Healy At XPONENTIAL: Manufacturing Moving From Dublin To Tulsa
May 13 FAA Air Traffic COO Tells XPONENTIAL: ‘We See Drones As Aircraft, Operators As Pilots’
May 13 AUVSI’s Robbins Defends Broader-Than-Asked FCC Drone Ban; Pentagon’s Cadenazzi Sets 2026 Section 805 Pilot Timeline
May 13 HYFIX Launches U.S.-Made H1P Chip Module for Small Drones
May 13 How to Fly Your Drone Safely Over Water: Settings, Prep, and Emergency Tips
May 13 Solar Impulse 2 Crashes Into Gulf After Skydweller Conversion
May 13 China’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Could Triple Industrial Drone Flight Time
May 13 Oklahoma City Drone Finds Armed Suspect, Robot Ends Standoff
May 12 Army’s Bumblebee V1 Turns a Drone Into a Drone Killer
May 12 NATO Tests Flowcopter MEDEVAC Drone in Poland Exercise
May 12 Knightwerx Leaves California, Plants Flag in Scottsdale
May 12 DJI SkyPixel 2026: The Best Drone Photos on the Planet
May 12 Detroit Startup Birdstop Deploys Drones to Solve Truck Parking Crisis
May 12 Navy Tests Drone Kill Chain Against Caribbean Narco Boats
May 12 The DJI Flip Is Ugly. Buy It Anyway.
May 12 South Carolina Moves to Criminalize Prison Drone Drops
May 11 Paladin Drones Floats $8,000 30-Day DFR Trial As Flock Hands Out Free Pilots
May 11 Ukraine Fiber Optic Spool Prices Jump More Than Eightfold As AI Data Center Demand Squeezes Drone Supply
May 11 DJI Air 4 Caught In Chinese Flight-Filing App, The First Registry-Level Sighting
May 11 FCC Extends Foreign Drone Firmware Waiver To January 2029, Concedes Cutting Off Patches Would Be Worse Than The Ban
May 11 Rheinmetall And Deutsche Telekom Unveil German Drone Shield Built On Cellular Detection
May 11 DJI Brings Osmo Pocket 4P To Cannes On May 14, Mid-Film Festival
May 11 Pocket Camera War: Five New Cameras Hit at Once
May 11 Vancouver Police Deploy DJI Matrice Fleet for FIFA World Cup 2026 Security
May 10 DroneShield and Terma Partner on Integrated Counter-UAS Solutions
May 10 U.S. Marines Get Three Weeks On FPV Drones As Pentagon Volume Gap With China And Russia Widens
May 9 FBI Charges Former Michigan Scholar With Hiding His Chinese Military Drone Company From U.S. Customs
May 9 Laredo Police Use RAVEN Drones to Locate Vehicle Burglary Suspect
May 9 Helsing Aims for $18 Billion Valuation in $1.2 Billion Dragoneer-Led Round
May 9 Northrop Flies DARPA Hybrid-Electric XRQ-73 SHEPARD UAS
May 9 Waiv Robotics Unveils Autonomous VTOL Landing System for Ships
May 8 Russia’s GRU Drafted a Plan to Give Iran 5,000 Unjammable Fiber-Optic Drones for Use Against U.S. Forces, The Economist Reports
May 8 DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Pro: Your Handheld Air 3S Is Almost Here
May 8 U.S. Army Merges Drones and Electronic Warfare at Fort Stewart
May 8 FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM, DJI FCC Deadline Looms, and 218 Wildfire Drone Incursions in 2025
May 8 The DJI Pocket 4 You Can’t Buy and the Clone You Might
May 8 DJI Confirms Osmo Pocket 4P With Coordinated Teaser, Dual-Lens Hardware Now Official
May 8 Amazon Prime Air Targets Metro Atlanta As Walmart And Wing Already Own Georgia Skies
May 7 Amazon Prime Air Targets Central New York With 176-Square-Mile Drone Delivery Zone Around Clay
May 7 Amazon Begins First UK Drone Deliveries In Darlington Under A Trial-Only Approval
May 7 How to Pair DJI Mic Mini 2, Mic 2, and Mic 3 to the DJI Mobile Receiver
May 7 Grilling Greg: Your Toughest Drone Registration, Airspace, and Part 107 Questions Answered
May 7 Could This Be What Saves DJI in the United States? The FCC Is Now Accepting Public Comments
May 7 An-28 Skydiving Plane Has 222 Drone Kills. The New York Times Just Filmed Inside It.
May 7 DJI And Autel Petitions Hit FCC’s May 11 Comment Deadline As Drone Operators Push For Covered List Reversal
May 7 Titan Batteries Opens UAV Pack Line At Bosch Site In Tilburg As Europe’s Drone Buildout Reaches The Battery Layer
May 7 DJI Osmo Mobile 8P Launches Globally With FrameTap Remote, Skips U.S. Market Again
May 7 K-State Salina Trains Kansas Farmers to Fly Spray Drones
May 7 Canadian Military Activates Counter-Drone Defenses At Naval Bases, Wrestles With Halifax Harbor Identification Problem
May 7 New DIRT Program Trains Personnel on Grounded Drones
May 6 Big Red One Tests OWS Drones for Anti-Armor Missions
May 6 Missouri Drone Corridor Aims to Save Transplant Time
May 6 Europe Gets Its First Military Drone Marketplace
May 6 Navy Picks Insitu’s ScanEagle and Integrator for ISR
May 6 Leander Tests Skydio Drones on Live 911 Calls
May 6 Northrop Beats Lockheed to Guard Army Helicopter Fleet
May 6 Olathe Drone Ordinance Pulled, and the ICE NOTAM Shows Why Pilots Have to Fight at Every Level
May 6 Purdue Bets Big on AI to Automate the Skies
May 5 FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM After Decade-Long Wait, Industry Has 60 Days To Shape The Rule
May 5 NC Guard and UK Forces Train Together on Drone Integration
May 5 Coast Guard Deploys Saildrone Vessels on Great Lakes This Summer
May 5 St. Charles County Clears Path for BRINC Drone Program
May 5 North Las Vegas Teens Train for Drone Pilot Careers
May 5 China Flies First Bamboo-Composite UAV in Tianjin
May 5 Poland Taps Ukraine’s Combat Drone Know-How for New Armada
May 5 St. Petersburg PD Puts Skydio X10 Drone Hive on Its Rooftop
May 4 Army Flies DJI Mavic 3 During Live-Fire Exercise in Latvia
May 4 Wisk Aero Flies Second Gen 6 Autonomous Air Taxi, Doubling Certification Test Rate
May 4 FAA’s No Drone Zone Push Caps A Year Of Counter-Drone Buildup For World Cup 2026
May 4 HoverAir X1 Pro Max Tips: How I Capture Cinematic Shots While Hiking in Alaska
May 4 DJI Osmo Action 6 Cinematic Cycling Workflow: 1/200 Shutter, D-Log M, And A Locked F/2.6 Aperture
May 4 DJI Pocket 4 Pro Photos Leak From China Influencer Meetup
May 4 Why DJI’s Built-In Simulator Is the Best Free Way to Practice Before Your First Drone Flight
May 3 Insta360 Luna First Look: Co-Engineered With Leica, This Might Be the Most Exciting Camera of 2026
May 3 California Homeowner Solves Delivery Problem With Drone Show
May 3 HPD Equips New Tactical Unit With DJI Matrice 4 Drones
May 3 Doral Police Deploy Parrot ANAFI at Cadillac Championship
May 2 Joby Aviation’s Manhattan Demo Closes Quieter Than I Expected: A Witness Account From Blade Lounge East
May 2 The Postman Who Listens for FPV Drones in Kharkiv
May 2 DJI Launching New ROMO Robot Vacuum This Month
May 1 DJI Faces $1.56 Billion Loss as FCC Ban Sidelines 39 Products in 2026
May 1 218 Wildfire Drone Incursions Last Year, Most Ever Recorded
May 1 Singapore Bets on Drone Boxes for Island-Wide Public Safety
May 1 Teledyne FLIR’s Prism C-UAS Hunts Drones With AI and Thermal