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Tytan Technologies Eyes 3,000 Interceptors Per Month
Tytan Technologies, a Munich-based counter-drone startup, is preparing to open a new German factory capable of producing 3,000 autonomous interceptors per month, with production scheduled to start this August. CEO and co-founder Balázs Nagy confirmed the expansion to Defense News,…
Dominion Energy Runs 50 Drones on America’s Grid
When Dominion Energy’s grid operators noticed an unexpected power drop at the Colonial Trail West solar farm in Surry County, Virginia this June, they didn’t send a lineman. They sent a drone. Pilot Aaron Colgrove pulled up the mission from…
ABSI Hosts Hive Mind Robotics Team for Counter-UAS Tour
Members of growingSTEMS Robotics Team 836A, known as The Hive Mind, toured ABSI Aerospace and Defense in California, Maryland this month to see how the company builds the expendable unmanned targets the U.S. military uses to train against hostile drones.…
DJI Mic Mini 2S Lands July 2 With On-Board Recording
DJI confirmed the launch of the Mic Mini 2S for July 2, 2026 at 8 p.m. local time, adding 14.5 GB of internal storage and 24-bit / 32-bit floating point recording to the smallest wireless microphone in the company’s audio…
DJI Avata 360 Review: Game-Changer or Overhyped Gimmick? My Honest Take After Testing It
Today we are reviewing the DJI Avata 360. There has been a lot of hype and excitement around this drone, with the promise of capturing 360-degree footage at 8K and choosing how to frame it later. There is probably a…
FAA Awards SMART Air Traffic Contract to Air Space Intelligence, Beating Palantir and Thales
The Federal Aviation Administration awarded a 12-year, $875 million contract to Air Space Intelligence to build the predictive air traffic management software it has been developing in stealth for the better part of a year. The Boston startup beat two…
Greece Scales Its Wildfire Drone Grid To 100+ Bases For 2026, A Year After Doubling Its Fleet
Greece will run more than 100 drone surveillance bases and three mobile command centers carrying thermal cameras across the country during the 2026 wildfire season, its largest drone deployment yet for fire detection. Government officials laid out the plan as…
FBI’s Chris Raia Says Battlefield Drones Will Reach America, But The Hardware He Fears Isn’t What Washington Banned
FBI Deputy Director Chris Raia told Fox News Digital it is “only a matter of time” before the kind of drone attacks seen on battlefields in Ukraine and the Middle East reach the United States, and he framed a lone…
NASA Langley Flew Donated Kidneys 7.5 Miles By Drone, And The Aircraft It Chose Says Everything
NASA researchers in Hampton, Virginia, put two human kidneys on a heavy-lift drone and flew them in 7.5-mile loops beyond the operator’s line of sight, then biopsied the organs to check for damage. They found none. The June 5 flights…
Skydio’s Weapons Reversal, a DJI Avata 2 Police Disarm, and the World Cup Drone Crackdown
Welcome to your weekly US news update. I have three stories for you this week. The Skydio CEO walks back their no-weapon pledge, which is an interesting one. A Sacramento sheriff uses a DJI Avata 2 to disarm a suspect,…
St Paul Police Logged 472 DFR Flights in Four Weeks
The St Paul Police Department’s new dock-based Drone as First Responder program flew 472 missions in its first four weeks, already passing the 436 patrol-drone flights the department logged in all of 2025. The three rooftop Skydio X10 drones went…
Irvine Police Drone Catches Shoplifter in Truck Bed
The Irvine Police Department’s Drone as First Responder program ended a Walmart shoplifting case the same way it ends most calls these days, with the suspect on the ground and an aircraft watching from above. Officers arrested Guillermo Hazael Martinez…
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