Ten days before the March 26 launch, a product database listing surfaced on X this afternoon showing something nobody had broken out yet: the DJI Avata 360 comes in two distinct hardware versions. Model DVN3NT is the standard drone. Model…
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Saudi Aramco was in talks with Wild Hornets to buy Sting interceptor drones for its oil infrastructure. Wild Hornets denied it the same day. Both statements are true — and the gap…
There’s a detail buried in Joby’s Golden Gate flight announcement that most other outlets missed — and it changes how you should read this story. Last Friday, Joby Aviation flew its electric air taxi across the San Francisco Bay, past…
The same executive order that unleashed drone dominance last June is now sending electric air taxis into live commercial airspace. On March 9, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA named eight projects under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program…
The numbers are hard to ignore. DJI Enterprise has won the State Grid Corporation of China’s first batch of drone inspection procurement contracts for 2026, with a winning bid of 1.83 billion yuan — approximately $250 million USD, according to…
The Washington Post opinion piece published March 16 by Nolan Peterson — a former U.S. Air Force Special Operations pilot and Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow — cuts through the usual strategic commentary with something more uncomfortable: a personal account…
Dubai International Airport went dark to commercial traffic on Monday, March 16, after a drone struck one of its fuel storage tanks and ignited a fire. The Dubai media office confirmed the incident on X, stating that “a drone incident…
The Iran conflict is doing more than destroying infrastructure and tankers. It’s stress-testing air defense systems in real time, and Beijing is watching every radar return very carefully. China has publicly confirmed it is integrating AI algorithms into its air…
I’ve watched DJI enter new product categories for years. The strategy is always the same: price below market expectations and let volume absorb the margin. The leaked pricing for the DJI Avata 360, set to officially launch on March 26,…
Neros Technologies is planting a serious flag on British soil. The Los Angeles-based FPV drone manufacturer — best known for its NDAA-compliant platforms including the Archer Fiber, the first NDAA-compliant fiber-optic FPV drone — has announced the formation of Neros…
Ukraine transitions from defense to security exporter as drone warfare experts deploy to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. Learn how the $2,500 Sting interceptor is reshaping Middle East air defense and why the Atlantic Council now labels Ukraine a drone superpower.
The Chinese PLA demonstrated what a single operator directing 200 fixed-wing drones looks like in January. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is now warning that with AI, that number could scale by orders of magnitude — and the operator count could…