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Private equity owner Bridgepoint is preparing to sell MyDefence, the Danish counter-drone company whose jammers and detectors are helping guard airspace at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in a deal that could value the business at around $1 billion. The London-listed firm has hired an adviser to prepare an auction toward the end of this…
The Toronto Police Service tracked a drone flying over a no-fly zone near Toronto Stadium to its pilot several blocks away beside Hotel X, then sent ground officers to confront the operator, all in a staged exercise built and flown by CBC News ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026. The public broadcaster was given…
DJI filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Insta360 on June 11, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the rival camera maker’s new Luna Pro and Luna Ultra gimbal cameras of copying the design and core technology of its Osmo Pocket line. One suit asserts two design patents covering…
Mercedes-Benz signed a memorandum of understanding with Munich counter-drone startup Tytan Technologies at the ILA 2026 air show in Berlin to develop vehicle-mounted systems that detect and shoot down small drones, built on the military G-Class SUV and the Sprinter van. The agreement, witnessed by Germany’s federal economics minister, makes the Stuttgart carmaker the latest…
NATO countries want to give the alliance’s top military commander more freedom to shoot down drones by the time leaders meet in Ankara next month, after nine months of incursions that have caused damage and injuries while rattling politics across the Eastern Flank. Two NATO diplomats and one alliance official described the proposal to Politico,…
A Ukrainian sergeant won his country’s “Wild Drones” military flying competition by piloting as slowly and carefully as possible, taking 11 minutes to finish a course built for a five-minute sprint while faster rivals collided and crashed around him. Sgt. Zakhar Korol, 37, of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura,” outlasted the field at a…
An Iran-linked hacker group called Handala claims it breached FBI first-person view (FPV) drones and used that access to threaten teams at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which opened June 11 across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist and state-linked propaganda, published the group’s statement on June 12.…
Mystery drones are hovering over Norwich, Connecticut homes at night. Police are investigating as World Cup airspace restrictions tighten the Northeast.
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