DJI
HPD Equips New Tactical Unit With DJI Matrice 4 Drones
Houston's PD has created a new unit designed to bridge the gap between street patrol and SWAT — and it's flying DJI Matrice 4 Series drone
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.
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Doral Police Deploy Parrot ANAFI at Cadillac Championship
The Doral Police Department used last week’s return of the PGA Tour to Trump National Doral to debut its new drone unit under real operational pressure, as Local 10 reported. Two Parrot ANAFI UKR GOV drones took to the skies over the Cadillac Championship as officers tested real-time aerial surveillance in front of tens of…
Ukraine
The Postman Who Listens for FPV Drones in Kharkiv
Oleksiy Klochkovsky drives a white Mercedes truck through the villages outside Kharkiv with his left ear deliberately uncovered. He doesn’t play music. He keeps an AirPod in his right ear for phone calls only. The left side stays open so he can hear what’s coming from the sky. For four years, the 37-year-old has delivered…
Dedrone
218 Wildfire Drone Incursions Last Year, Most Ever Recorded
The U.S. Forest Service reported 218 drone sightings over active wildfires in 2025, more than the previous seven years combined. Most happened during the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles, where 184 drones entered restricted airspace, as the Rogue Valley Times reported. The agency wants the public to understand the math. Every unauthorized drone…
Singapore
Singapore Bets on Drone Boxes for Island-Wide Public Safety
Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency unveiled a two-tier drone box system on April 28 designed to put aerial response within reach of any incident on the island. The pitch is simple. Replace the hour it currently takes to get a police drone to a scene with near-instant deployment from boxes pre-positioned across Singapore,…
PRISM
Teledyne FLIR’s Prism C-UAS Hunts Drones With AI and Thermal
Teledyne FLIR OEM launched Prism C-UAS on April 28, a counter-drone software stack that pairs thermal imaging with AI-driven object detection and tracking. The pitch is detection range, as reported by Business Ware. Prism can lock onto a drone showing fewer than four pixels on target, which buys defenders more time to respond before a…
Skydio
LAPD Drones Challenge a 70-Year Helicopter Monopoly Above LA
The Los Angeles Police Department flew its drone-as-first-responder fleet more than 3,500 times in the program’s first year, according to a report headed to the Police Commission this week, as reported by Govtech. The fleet now plans to nearly triple, growing from 9 to 24 aircraft, with a $1.2 million Police Foundation donation funding part…
US Army
US Marines Deploy AI Rifle Scope Against Iranian Drones
Drones are the primary target for the US Marine Corps' new SMASH 2000L AI rifle scope. Learn how this computer-vision technology is neutralizing UAS threats with 95% accuracy.
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