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Oklahoma Is Building the Drone Workforce From the Classroom Up
Oklahoma just showed the rest of the country what aerospace education leadership actually looks like. And it started with teachers. Two Days at OSU That Actually Matter On February 27 and 28, the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics teamed…
FAA research: DJI accounts for 96% of detected US drone platforms. The FCC banned DJI in December.
New FAA-funded research puts a hard number on what every drone pilot already knows: DJI is the US drone market. Not most of it. Nearly all of it. The ASSURE A83 2025 Annual Report, produced by researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical…
France Deploys Anti-Drone Systems to Cyprus After Iran’s Shahed Reaches RAF Akrotiri
France is sending anti-drone systems to Cyprus following the Iranian Shahed strike on RAF Akrotiri that hit the runway just after midnight on March 2. Reuters first reported the deployment decision. It makes France the first European ally to send…
Iran’s Shahed drone hits RAF Akrotiri runway as UK Typhoon scores first Iranian drone kill over Qatar
An Iranian drone struck the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus around midnight local time on Sunday, March 2, 2026. The strike caused limited damage and no casualties. Hours earlier, an RAF Typhoon operating out of Qatar had shot down…
Germany Gives Bundeswehr Shoot-Down Powers as Russian Drone Threat Forces Bundestag’s Hand
Germany’s parliament voted Thursday, February 27, 2026, to give the Bundeswehr authority to intercept, jam, and shoot down drones over German territory — a shift that would have been politically unthinkable just a few years ago. The Bundestag approved amendments…
Pentagon Shoots Down Its Own $30M CBP Drone at the Texas Border and Still Has No Fix for the Coordination Failure That Caused It
A U.S. military high-energy laser destroyed a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) surveillance drone near Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday, February 26. The reason: CBP never told the Pentagon it was flying one. The military saw an unidentified aircraft…
China’s Wing Loong 2 Is Spoofing Transponder Signals Over the South China Sea in What Analysts Call a Taiwan Rehearsal
A Chinese military drone has been flying regular surveillance missions over the South China Sea since August while broadcasting false transponder codes that made it appear to be other aircraft entirely — including a sanctioned Belarusian cargo plane and a…
US Military Shoots Down CBP’s Own Drone Near Texas Border, Democrats Demand Independent Investigation
The Pentagon fired a high-energy laser at a drone near Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday — and destroyed it. The problem: it was a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone. CBP had not told the military it was flying…
Pentagon Laser Shoots Down CBP Drone Near El Paso, Exposing a Deeper Government Coordination Failure
The Department of Defense used a high-energy laser to destroy a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone over Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday, February 26, according to four officials who spoke to The New York Times. The FAA responded…
New York Secures $17.2M to Stop Illegal Drones
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the horizon, New York is reinforcing its airspace. Governor Kathy Hochul announced that more than $17.2 million in federal funding has been awarded to four key public safety agencies through the Counter Unmanned…
FPV drones strike Myanmar passenger plane at Myitkyina Airport in second attack this month
An ATR-72-600 turboprop operated by Myanmar National Airlines was hit by multiple FPV suicide drones while passengers were boarding at Myitkyina Airport on the evening of February 20, 2026. No one was killed or injured, but the attack marks the…
FAA shuts down El Paso airspace, DJI VP detained in China, Kansas City counter-drone bill, and drone pilot faces federal charges
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week, and they’re quite interesting. First up, the FAA abruptly shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas. A former DJI VP has been detained in…
