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Lee County Deploys Skydio X10 for Sterile Mosquito Releases
Lee County Mosquito Control District made history this week as the first in the United States to release sterile mosquitoes using a drone. They flew a Skydio X10 over targeted neighborhoods in Fort Myers to deliver thousands of lab-reared, sterilized…
TU Delft Drone Flies 600 Meters Home On 42 Kilobytes By Copying A Honeybee
Researchers at Delft University of Technology have built a drone that finds its way home over more than 600 meters (1,969 feet) without GPS, without a stored map, and on a neural memory of just 42 kilobytes. That is smaller…
Vermeer Bets American Strike Drones Are Useless Without a GPS Replacement
A New York startup is selling the U.S. military and Ukraine a camera-and-AI navigation kit that lets drones fly without GPS, and its founder is making an unusually blunt pitch: the autonomous warfare everyone is funding does not function once…
DJI Clears an Independent U.S. Cybersecurity Audit, a Custom FPV Drone Hits 730 km/h, and SkyeBrowse Drops Another Major Update
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. I have three stories for you this week: DJI was audited by a U.S.-based cybersecurity firm, a custom FPV drone hit 730 kilometers per hour, and SkyeBrowse rolled out yet another major product…
Russian Drone Hits Romanian Apartment Block in Galați, First Injuries on NATO Soil as Bucharest Weighs Article 4
A Russian Geran-2 attack drone crashed into the roof of a 10-storey apartment block in Galați, Romania, overnight on 28-29 May, detonating its full warhead on impact and starting a fire that injured two residents. It is the first time…
FAA Law Makes That Viral “Claude Squirrel-Hunting Drone” Illegal Three Times Over
A post claiming to show an AI-controlled drone armed with a CO2 BB gun that autonomously shoots squirrels has pulled in more than 590,000 views on X this week, and almost every law it touches points the same direction: this…
Pentagon Floats Equity Stakes In U.S. Drone Startups As Trump Administration Tries To Buy Its Way Out Of A Production Deficit
The Trump administration is negotiating funding deals with a group of American drone companies, and at least some of those deals could hand the U.S. government an ownership slice of the firms it backs. According to a Wall Street Journal…
HOVERAir AQUA Launches In 50+ Countries Today, US Buyers Locked Out By FCC Foreign Drone Ban
HOVERAir AQUA, the waterproof self-flying camera from Zero Zero Robotics, went on sale globally today across more than 50 countries. American buyers cannot purchase it. In its outreach to DroneXL, HoverAir confirmed the AQUA is unavailable in the United States…
DJI’s New U.S. Security Audit By OnDefend Finds No Backdoors, No Foreign Data Transmission In Air 3S And Matrice 4E
DJI released the results of an independent five-month security audit of the Air 3S and Matrice 4E this morning, with U.S. cybersecurity firm OnDefend finding zero critical, high, or medium-risk vulnerabilities across hardware, firmware, software, and radio frequency testing. No…
Tymur Fatkullin Hunts Russian Shaheds In A Six-Ton Skydiving Plane, And The New Yorker Just Profiled Him
The New Yorker published a short documentary on its YouTube channel on May 26, 2026, profiling Ukrainian aerobatics champion Tymur Fatkullin as he flies nighttime intercepts against Russian Shahed drones in a six-ton Antonov An-28 that carried skydivers before the…
Kalashnikov’s SKAT-220 and Its 99 MPH Speed Claim
Kalashnikov rolled out a new drone this week and wrapped a familiar Russian word around it: record. The SKAT-220 is a lighter, faster spin on the company’s SKAT-350M, and Kalashnikov says it tops out around 99 mph (160 km/h), which…
Skydio, BRINC and a Robot Dog Join Louisiana Patrols
A district attorney in Louisiana is doing something most prosecutors never touch. He’s buying the drones. Tony Clayton wants 911 response on the west bank of the Mississippi to fall from minutes to seconds, and he’s funding a three-year program…
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