The FCC‘s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau on June 4 exempted the VEX AIR Uncrewed Aircraft System from the Covered List, after the Department of War granted Innovation First International a Conditional Approval that runs through December 31, 2026.…
Potensic released the Atom 3 today, and we have already put it in the air. The new sub-249 gram drone pairs a 1 50-megapixel camera with a claimed 16 km (9.9 miles) of video transmission and up to 50 minutes…
A surveyor running an environmental baseline study used a DJI Matrice 4E and free open-source software to identify, classify, and geolocate every individual plant of 29 native species across a 130-hectare site. Pablo Carranza shared the work in the Drone…
Transport Canada published Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) 2026-005 on June 8, 2026, the biggest proposed rewrite of Canadian drone rules since Part IX of the Canadian Aviation Regulations took effect in 2019. The proposal would mandate Remote ID for…
The Federal Aviation Administration will modify all of its FIFA World Cup 2026 drone NOTAMs to add an authorization pathway through the Department of Homeland Security, starting with the Texas locations. The change comes less than two weeks after the…
A firefighting helicopter working a brush fire near Moab, Utah encountered an unauthorized drone over the active fire area, and state fire managers responded by publishing photos of what past drone strikes have done to aircraft. The warning lands 17…
Stark unveils Cascade and Gambit loitering munitions with fiber-optic guidance and a UK launcher deal, eight months after its Virtus failed every strike.
Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation…
The Ukrainian interceptor drone that Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said automates 95 percent of the Shahed kill cycle now has a builder, a price, and a combat record. MaXon Systems, a Kyiv defense technology startup, made a fixed-wing interceptor that…
An unmanned U.S. Navy boat found two downed Army aviators in the water off Oman on Monday evening and brought them home, the first time an autonomous surface vessel has rescued American military personnel. The two crew of a U.S.…
Brian Schimpf handed a reporter a three-pound tungsten warhead at a secretive West Texas test site, then watched an Anduril Bolt drone dive at 85 degrees toward hills the company would not let a photographer shoot. That scene opens a…
Downtown Providence is closed to drones until July 21. A Federal Aviation Administration temporary flight restriction that took effect June 1 prohibits every unmanned aircraft inside a 1-nautical-mile radius and up to 1,000 feet above ground level around the Graduate…