Skydio
Flock Safety Pushes Alpha Camera As The Sensor Arms Race In Police Drones Heats Up
Flock Safety's new Alpha campaign sells the drone's camera: 2,000-foot plate reads, best-in-class thermal, and the most powerful zoom in DFR.
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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DJI
Lexar Professional Silver Plus 1TB Review: The microSD Card That Lives in My Drone Now
Hands-on Lexar Silver Plus 1TB review: full specs, DJI Mini 5 Pro and Antigravity A1 compatibility, real-world value, and why it lives in my drone for months.
Zipline
Zipline Bets Nigeria Becomes Its Biggest African Market With 12 New Drone Hubs By 2028
Zipline plans 12 new Nigeria drone hubs by 2028 to reach 100 million people, but its paused Kaduna operation shows the political risk underneath.
Skydio
Motorola Solutions Buys D-Fend For $1.5 Billion, Turning Counter-Drone Takeover Tech Into A Public Safety Product
Motorola Solutions buys counter-drone firm D-Fend for $1.5B, adding RF drone-takeover tech as the Safer Skies Act opens the US market to police.
Department of Defense
Zelenskyy Tells Face the Nation the U.S. Drone Deal Still Needs One Thing: Trump to Say Yes
The framework drone agreement that Ukraine has been pushing Washington to sign for nearly a year is still unsigned, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy used a national U.S. broadcast to say exactly what is holding it up. In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation that aired Sunday, the Ukrainian president said his country and the United…
FAA
FAA Publishes World Cup TFR Venue List, And Part 107 Authorizations Stop At The Stadium Ring
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on May 28 published the actual venue list, dates, and airspace dimensions for its FIFA World Cup 2026 flight restrictions, turning a months-old “No Drone Zone” messaging campaign into a concrete schedule that pilots can now check against their own calendars. Eleven U.S. stadiums get the largest treatment: a three-nautical-mile…
Drone Research
TU Delft Drone Flies 600 Meters Home On 42 Kilobytes By Copying A Honeybee
TU Delft's Bee-Nav drone flies home from 600 meters without GPS, using a honeybee-inspired neural memory of just 42 kilobytes. Here's how it works.
Technology
Vermeer Bets American Strike Drones Are Useless Without a GPS Replacement
New York startup Vermeer sells a $20,000 camera-and-AI kit that lets strike drones navigate without GPS, combat-tested in Ukraine against Russian jamming.
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