Ukraine
Inside the Secret Munich Factory Producing 10,000 Ukrainian Drones a Year
Germany and Ukraine's new joint venture, Quantum Frontline Industries, begins mass production of the AI-powered Linza drones near Munich.
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.
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Portland, Maine City Council Votes Again on Police Drone Under Maine’s Strict UAV Law
The $45,000 drone Portland police want has been stuck in political limbo since November 2025, when the council rejected it 4-3. Now, under Order 88-25/26, the Portland City Council faces the same vote again — and the same legal reality: under 25 M.R.S.A. §4501, Maine police departments cannot acquire a drone without governing body approval.…
Forest Service
Drone jobs are booming across the Mountain West, and a Reno kids club is building the next generation of pilots
Explore how drone jobs are surging across the Mountain West. From autonomous firefighting startups like Seneca to innovative youth training at the Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows, see how Reno is building the future workforce for the $100B drone industry.
Iran
Starmer’s Drone Dilemma: How a Shahed at RAF Akrotiri Pulled Britain Deeper Into the Iran War
Following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to grant the U.S. access to British bases for offensive strikes, an Iranian-made Shahed drone hit RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Explore the political fallout, the looming shadow of the Iraq War, and Britain’s urgent need for battle-tested Ukrainian counter-drone expertise.
Iran
Countering Iran’s Shahed drones: fighter jets, machine guns, and the friendly fire problem Kuwait just exposed
The Kuwait friendly fire shootdown of three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles proved why coordinating layered air defenses against Iranian drones is harder than buying the right hardware.
DJI
CJNG’s Tech Arsenal: How Drones, AI, and TikTok Kept Mexico’s Most Dangerous Cartel Running After El Mencho’s Death
Mexican Army Special Forces killed Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes this past weekend in Tapalpa, Jalisco — the most wanted drug lord in Mexico, with a $10 million US bounty on his head. Within hours of federal confirmation, the predictable question surfaced: does the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) die with him? The answer,…
Russia
LUCAS Drone’s Starlink Terminal Alarms Russian Military Analysts — Musk Says It Violates Terms of Service
Combat footage and CENTCOM imagery from Operation Epic Fury tell part of the story. Russian military bloggers are filling in the rest — and they don’t like what they see. A thread posted March 1, 2026 by open-source analyst ChrisO_wiki on X aggregated commentary from three prominent Russian Telegram channels, all sounding the alarm over…
Airbus
Starlink Cuts Russia Off: How Musk’s Decision Flipped 300 Square Kilometers Back to Ukraine
I’ve been tracking the Starlink-drone connection since the first week of the 2022 invasion. But the full picture of what happened between a Russian BM-35 flying past a Kyiv government building and a complete collapse of Russian frontline communications in February 2026 is only now coming into focus, thanks to a deep investigative account by…
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