A DJI Matrice 400 drone paired with the Zenmuse L3 LiDAR payload is now scanning the Mirador Basin in northern Guatemala, where archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen has spent 47 years documenting one of the densest concentrations of ancient Maya cities…
The Ukrainian military has tested an FPV (First-Person View) drone that carries both fiber optic and radio control channels at once, giving operators a live fallback the moment the fiber cable breaks or loops mid-flight. Tetyana Chornovol, a Ukrainian journalist,…
Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, is bleeding Russia’s army faster than Moscow can replace it. A detailed profile published today in The Economist reveals that December 2025 was the first month in four years of war…
The U.S. Army has placed an order exceeding $52 million with Skydio for nearly 3,000 X10D drones, the company announced today. It is the largest small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) procurement from a single vendor in Army history. The contract…
Ukraine’s drone forces have pushed the battlefield kill zone to roughly 150 kilometers behind the front line, a dramatic expansion from the 15 kilometers the Financial Times confirmed in February, according to The Telegraph (May 16, 2025, paywalled). Ukrainian drones…
Anduril Industries will begin building its FURY “loyal wingman” high-speed combat drone within days at its new Arsenal-1 facility in Pickaway County, south of Columbus, Ohio, according to a Reuters report published March 19, 2026 (paywalled). The nearly $1 billion…
Ukraine produces at least five distinct interceptor drone models purpose-built to destroy Iranian-designed Shahed and Russian-produced Geran attack drones, and Gulf states are lining up to buy them, according to a detailed breakdown published March 19 by UNITED24 Media. These…
The Lyman axis has been one of the more grinding sections of the front for months. But something has changed. Ukrainian forces there are no longer leading with infantry engagements. They’re going after the machine behind the machine. Ukraine’s Mara…
The South Bend Police Department in Indiana has launched a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program through a one-year, no-cost partnership with Flock Safety, according to local reporting on the program. Eight FAA-certified operators inside the department’s Real Time Crime…
Ukraine has deployed military units to protect critical and civilian infrastructure against drones in five Middle Eastern countries, according to Reuters. Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s Minister of Defence, announced the deployments on March 20, 2026, following a tour of the United…
Ukraine’s drone campaign is strangling Russian front-line logistics at a scale that wasn’t possible even a few weeks ago. Writing in The Telegraph, journalist Verity Bowman reports that Ukrainian drones can now strike targets up to 93 miles behind the…
Seneca‘s autonomous firefighting drones are heading to Aspen, Colorado this fire season, and the question fire chiefs have been asking for years is finally getting a field answer: can drones actually suppress a blaze before a human crew reaches the…