Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Founder of DroneXL.co, where he covers all drone-related news, DJI rumors and writes drone reviews, and of EVXL.co, for all electric vehicle news. Haye can be reached at haye @ dronexl.co or @hayekesteloo.
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 European BVLOS missions. The change applies to the Matrice 4D and 4TD running firmware version…
On Decoder, Skydio CEO Adam Bry walked back his company's posted no-weapons pledge, called drawing red lines "dangerously misguided," and conceded China still builds better drones.
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 That framing is already out of date.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, set by President Trump’s June 2025 executive order, and that date came and went months…
The Toy Association lobbied its way to an FCC toy-drone exemption while DJI, Autel, and the operators who fly drones for a living stay banned. A look at who wins in Washington.
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. The arrest came Saturday, and the agency later released the video alongside footage of the…
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 Phoenix. The Alphabet-owned operator will push the partnership toward nearly 20 US markets, and the…
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 hours or less, for $4.99 if you hold a Prime membership. What Amazon did not…
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 forest, the company demonstrated its P1-SUN interceptor against a lightweight replica of the Iranian-designed attack…
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