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Ten months after Ursula von der Leyen called for a European drone wall, drone warfare analyst Ulrike Franke finds the EU's counter-drone defenses largely missing in action, while Poland builds Europe's largest system on its own and incursions keep injuring civilians on NATO soil.
Quantum Cyber built its first interceptor drone in Bridgeport, CT. In February the Nasdaq company was Mainz Biomed, selling cancer tests.
A $20,000 drone against a $4 million interceptor: how strikes on refineries and tankers pushed oil past $100 and made drone defense an energy policy problem.
German drone maker CiS says European demand for its ORKA Dock and drone now exceeds what its 30-person Rostock factory can build.
A Zipline delivery drone flying for Walmart deployed its emergency parachute over a Greenville, Texas neighborhood on Sunday, July 26, and drifted down onto a residential street near Roy Warren Parkway and Joe Ramsey Boulevard, coming to rest about three feet from a parked pickup truck. Nobody was hurt, and a Walmart employee showed up quickly…
Leaked photos from Igor Bogdanov show a purported DJI Matrice 5 with what appears to be built-in LiDAR, RTK, and a five-window gimbal with laser rangefinder.
Formula 1 fans are not sold on FPV drone footage, and the most detailed public referendum on it is happening on Reddit. After the Austrian Grand Prix put drone shots at the center of a race broadcast, a thread on r/formula1 filled with responses that split between viewers who called the footage the first time they ever felt the cars' speed and viewers who said it made them physically nauseous…
Formula 1 used drone footage more aggressively, and more creatively, in today's Hungarian Grand Prix broadcast than in any race I have watched this season. Watching the Apple TV feed on Sunday, July 26, I counted drone angles woven into the live coverage from lap 3 onward, and two of them stopped me cold…
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