A Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office pilot flew a consumer FPV drone into a garage, found a barricaded parolee holding a knife, and pulled the blade out of his hand with a magnet before any deputy stepped into the room. The…
The FBI has intercepted more than 300 unauthorized drones at FIFA World Cup 2026 venues across the United States in the first ten days of the tournament, a figure that converts a year of federal counter-drone spending into a hard…
Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) spent part of June 8 at the Southeast Purdue Ag Center in Butlerville, watching agricultural spray drones lift off at the Indiana Spray Drone Association Education Day. The visit gave a sitting U.S. senator a close…
DJI has extended the existing C6 class certification on its Matrice 4D Series to cover standalone flights with the DJI RC Plus 2 Enterprise controller, removing the requirement that the aircraft launch from a DJI Dock 3 to fly compliant…
On a June 15 episode of The Verge‘s Decoder podcast, Skydio CEO Adam Bry distanced his company from a no-weapons commitment it published years ago and still has posted online. “This is an area where I’ve gotten some things wrong,”…
The headline you keep reading is that drone pilots will fly beyond visual line of sight “within a year or so.” That framing is already out of date. The deadline for a final Part 108 rule was February 1, 2026,…
The Toy Association spent months lobbying the FCC, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of War, and last week it walked the halls of Capitol Hill during its annual Washington fly-in. On Tuesday it got exactly what it…
A Lee County Sheriff’s Office drone searching for a bear in southwest Florida recorded a man pointing a BB gun at the aircraft and firing at least twice, and the footage put a federal felony on camera in real time.…
Walmart and its drone partner Wing named seven new metro areas for their delivery network on June 10, and one of those cities should sound familiar to anyone who read DroneXL earlier today. Memphis is on the list. So is…
Amazon parked an MK-30 delivery drone inside the Renasant Convention Center on Tuesday and invited Memphis residents to meet it. The company calls the service Prime Air, and the pitch was familiar: packages up to five pounds, delivered in two…
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer called SkyFall has flown artificial intelligence into the one job interceptor pilots could never do fast enough: spotting an incoming Shahed before the human eye registers it. At a launch site in a central Ukrainian pine…
The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it will allow new models of Chinese toy drones to be imported into the United States, the latest crack in a sweeping ban that has frozen DJI and Autel out of the American…