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.
The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice software platform, as Defence Express reports. It is the largest single contract in Anduril’s history and…
Nobody asked Max Imagination to do this. There was no grant, no sponsor, no defense contract. Just a YouTuber, an ESP32 microcontroller that costs about as much as a decent burrito, a consumer 3D printer, and a question that apparently needed answering: how fast can you go when the budget ceiling is $155? The answer,…
Turkey’s Baykar unveiled the K2 Kamikaze UAV on March 14, and the promotional video was set to Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2. That detail tells you something about how Baykar sees itself at this point, as QUWA reported. Five K2s lifted off from the Keşan Flight Training and Test Center in Edirne Province, flew sorties over…
Switzerland’s government-backed Taskforce Drones is preparing its next round of UAS technical trials for autumn 2026, building on a December 2025 campaign that pushed attack drones and counter-drone systems through some of the most challenging terrain in Europe, as JANES reports. The program is overseen by the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport…
The DJI Mini 4K bundle just dropped to $269 on Amazon, down from $389, and it comes with two batteries, a remote controller, a shoulder bag
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 reshaping itself into something much larger than a drone maker. The deal closed March 16…
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 the hardware before he flies it. His LinkedIn is essentially a running technical journal of…
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 crawled into before dawn. The Ukrainians figured this out the hard way. The Norwegians figured…
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