A fourth armed drone has been found on Finnish soil in less than two weeks, this time in a forest in the Perheniemi area of Iitti, roughly 140 kilometres northeast of Helsinki, according to the Helsinki Times. A member of…
The Department of Defense filed a memorandum with the Federal Communications Commission opposing DJI’s petition to be removed from the agency’s Covered List, as first reported by Broadband Breakfast on April 7. The filing’s most consequential detail is what it…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the U.S. military formal clearance on Friday to use high-energy lasers against suspected drones in U.S. airspace, ending a two-month interagency dispute that twice shut down commercial flight operations over the Texas-Mexico border. FAA…
The FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) is now doing something U.S. aviation regulators have never done: letting companies fly commercial missions with uncertified aircraft, then using the data to write the rules afterward. A detailed report from Aviation International…
Yaroslav Azhnyuk went from building a smartphone-controlled laser toy for bored pets to manufacturing AI-guided kamikaze drones that fly their final attack run without human input. The New York Times profiled Azhnyuk and his two defense companies today, documenting how…
Skyrover posted a “We’re Here to Stay” announcement to its official Reddit community this week, formally titled “A Letter to Our U.S. Customers: Our Long-Term Commitment to the Drone Community.” The statement lays out a five-year roadmap covering FCC compliance,…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr scaled the WCTI broadcast tower in Jones County, North Carolina, on Thursday, riding a hydraulic hoist most of the way up before climbing the final 101 feet by hand. Carr posted video and…
Two Harvard mechanical engineering seniors have built a fixed-wing VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) drone from scratch to help marine biologists locate sperm whales tagged with VHF (very high frequency) transmitters off the coast of Dominica, according to a project…
Avinox, DJI’s e-bike drive system brand, has announced its next-generation M2S and M2 drive units, targeting the high-performance end of the e-bike market with peak outputs that put them closer to light electric motorcycles than traditional mid-drive systems. The M2S…
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase, used his annual letter to shareholders, released April 6, 2026, to call explicitly for the United States to rapidly develop and produce drones domestically, and to announce a $1.5 trillion,…
DJI officially announced the Osmo Pocket 4 launch event via a teaser posted to DJI’s X account on April 9, 2026. The post carries the tagline “The World In My Pocket” and sets the reveal for April 16, 2026, at…
Ukraine’s anti-monopoly committee sent back an application for a $760 million acquisition of a 30% stake in FirePoint, the country’s top long-range drone and missile maker, according to a written response the committee gave to Reuters on April 8, 2026.…