Haye Kesteloo

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. Also on LinkedIn, Muck Rack, Instagram and YouTube.

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Pentagon Pushes Low Tech Defenses Against Small Drones

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Marc Andreessen Joins the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board While His Firm Backs the Drone Makers Winning the DJI Ban

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to the Defense Policy Board on Monday, June 29, 2026, placing the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz on the advisory panel that counsels the Pentagon’s top civilian leadership on force structure, modernization, and national security strategy. Andreessen joins as one of thirteen members named alongside chair…

Haye KestelooJun 29

The High Cost of Security: Why the "Pain" of a DJI Ban Means Lives Lost, Not Just Lost Profits - Drones Favored by Utah Search and Rescue Crews: Enhancing Efficiency in Wilderness Operations

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DRONERESPONDERS Warns Public Safety Drones And Delivery Fleets Are On A Collision Course Over UTM

America now has roughly four registered drones for every registered crewed aircraft, and a public safety official is warning that the country has no agreed system for deciding which one moves out of the way. In a piece published June 24 in Homeland Security Today, Charles Werner, director of the DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance, laid…

Haye KestelooJun 29

Antigravity A1

MKBHD Calls Antigravity A1 the Most Interesting Hardware in a While, But Flags a Stitch Line and a Strap Problem

Marques Brownlee, the YouTube reviewer known as MKBHD, has published a sponsored video on the Antigravity A1, the 8K 360 drone co-engineered by Insta360, and his verdict lands somewhere most sponsored content never goes: he spent most of the runtime selling the experience, then closed by naming two things he would change. Brownlee called the…

Haye KestelooJun 29

Wing's Delivery Drones Reveal Engineering Marvels in Spectacular Slow-Motion Testing

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Flytrex And Wing Built Drone Air Traffic Control That Skips The Hard Part

Two rival drone delivery companies have spent a year running a working air traffic control system over North Texas suburbs with no humans brokering the traffic, and the headline number is genuinely impressive: zero airspace conflicts across roughly 8,000 overlapping flights. Flytrex and Wing coordinate their aircraft automatically in shared airspace above Little Elm and…

Haye KestelooJun 29

Potensic Atom 3 First Flight: New Sub-249 Gram Drone Flies Like A DJI Mini For A Lot Less Money

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JetBlue Pilot Reports Striking Drone at 3,000 Feet Over JFK, but No Damage and No Debris Yet

A JetBlue pilot told air traffic controllers his Airbus A321 collided with a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 29. Flight 948 had flown overnight from Las Vegas and landed safely six minutes later at 7:21 a.m. A post-flight inspection…

Haye KestelooJun 29

DJI Air 3S Review: Professional Filmmaker Puts Drone to the Test

Department of Homeland Security

DHS Wants to Fund the FBI’s Counter-Drone School Because It’s Already Full, Mid-World Cup

The Department of Homeland Security wants to route its own money into the FBI’s counter-drone training center because demand for seats has outrun capacity in the middle of the FIFA World Cup, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the House Appropriations Committee on June 26. The admission is the candid part of a hearing that was…

Haye KestelooJun 29

Skydio

EFF Says Lawmakers Have “Precious Little Time” to Stop Armed Police Drones, and the Skydio Reversal Is Why

The Electronic Frontier Foundation published a warning on June 26 that armed police drones are no longer a hypothetical, and that the absence of any federal law governing when American law enforcement can deploy force from a drone has left the question to the companies selling the hardware. The digital rights group, which has argued…

Haye KestelooJun 29

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P vs Pocket 4 vs Pocket 3, and the Insta360 Luna Ultra Americans Can Actually Buy

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DJI Osmo Pocket 4, Pocket 4P, and Insta360 Luna Ultra: Only One of These Three Is Legal to Buy in America

Only one of DJI's Pocket 4, Pocket 4P, and Insta360's Luna Ultra is legal to buy in the US. Specs, the 32-bit float catch, and the patent fight, compared.

Haye KestelooJun 29

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