Rafael Suárez

Rafael Suárez

Rafael Suárez is a drone journalist and content creator with more than 20 years behind the lens. He began in film photography in 1998, moved to digital in 2005, and has been flying and filming with drones since 2016. As a commercial videographer he has produced work for premium brands including BMW, Porsche, and MINI, and his documentary work champions a #flysafe mentality across the industry. Based in Quito, Ecuador, he covers drone news, hardware, and the policy and business shaping the industry for DroneXL, and shares reviews and cinematic flight on his YouTube channel. A dad and a lifelong aviation nerd, he's happiest when something is in the air.
Aerovironment Acquires Esaero In $200M Deal

AeroVironment Acquires ESAero in $200M Deal

AeroVironment just announced on a press release that has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace in a transaction valued at approximately $200 million, adding a certified aerospace prototyping and manufacturing operation to a company that has spent the last twelve months aggressively…

This Fpv Pilot Fixed The Dji Neo 2 With Tape

This FPV Pilot Fixed the DJI Neo 2 With Tape

Tom Palmaers is a Belgian FPV pilot, firefighter, and tactical drone instructor at BSSHOLLAND who has built a quiet but serious reputation in the global FPV community for doing something most pilots don’t bother with: actually understanding what’s happening inside…

Norway'S Elite Soldiers Are Hiding From Drones In Snownorway'S Elite Soldiers Are Hiding From Drones In Snow

Norway’s Elite Soldiers Are Hiding From Drones in Snow

The most sophisticated camouflage technology available to Norway’s elite Arctic reconnaissance unit right now isn’t thermal cloaking, radar-absorbing material, or anything you’d find in a defense procurement catalog. It’s snow. Piled by hand into a dome, allowed to harden, and…

Drones Light The Fire At Pisgah National Forest

Drones Light the Fire at Pisgah National Forest

The U.S. Forest Service used a modified Freefly Alta X carrying Drone Amplified’s IGNIS aerial ignition system to conduct prescribed burns at the Wilson Ridge unit in Pisgah National Forest last weekend, treating 290 acres of hazardous fuel in terrain…

Sweden'S K100Xr Drone Killer Comes To Poland

Sweden’s K100XR Drone Killer Comes to Poland

Nordic Air Defence, the Stockholm-based startup behind the Kreuger 100XR interceptor, is opening a Polish subsidiary and signing a three-way counter-drone partnership with Polish defense companies WB Group and Tantalit. The announcement landed March 13 during an active Swedish state…

Uk Eyes Drones To Unlock Strait Of Hormuz

UK Eyes Drones to Unlock Strait of Hormuz

Britain is drawing up plans to send autonomous minesweeping drones to the Strait of Hormuz as Iran’s threat to international shipping pushes oil prices past $100 a barrel. The UK won’t send warships, as Trump demanded over the weekend. Instead,…

Amazon Drone Uav Delivery Fly Work Uas

Amazon Prime Air Quits Drone Alliance Over Safety

Amazon’s Prime Air division has walked away from the Commercial Drone Alliance, and the reason is blunt: a fundamental disagreement over whether detect-and-avoid technology should be mandatory across the national airspace. The split went public March 12 after Reuters obtained…