Oklahoma has a slow-motion wildfire crisis growing one tree at a time. Drones dropping herbicide pellets tree by tree may be the most cost-effective answer anyone has found yet, as reported by KOSU. The Tree That Is Eating Oklahoma Eastern…
A U.S. defense tech firm and a Norwegian startup just signed an agreement to put autonomous drone deployment on any military vehicle. The hardware is already proven. The question is how fast it can scale. Two Drones, One Box, Any…
Every summer, a thick green menace takes over Florida’s largest lake. Embry-Riddle researchers are about to send drones after it. Florida’s Biggest Lake Has a Toxic Summer Tenant Lake Okeechobee is 730 square miles of freshwater sitting at the heart…
Eight drone nests, 30 seconds to scene, and a Chinese-made aircraft at the center of an American public safety debate. Kansas City just went live. The System That Gets There Before the Cruiser Eight drone nests are now positioned across…
A European air mobility group just signed a framework deal for up to 50 hybrid cargo aircraft that can carry 551 lbs across 435 miles without a pilot. This really big cargo drone is called the Hili. It completed its…
The Army just held its first drone warfighter competition. The best pilots grew up with a controller. But one veteran wants you to know what happens after the goggles come off. The Competition Nobody Expected to Look Like This Gray…
,On the eastern front, the sky is more contested than the ground. And inside a downed Russian drone, Ukrainian soldiers found a circuit board that changed everything they thought they knew about the fight above their heads, as Armyinform reports.…
The Pentagon has a plan to achieve drone dominance. The Mojave Desert just showed how far reality lags behind the ambition. The Gap Between Vision and the Desert Floor The Drone Dominance Program is one of the most aggressive military…
Disney is about to put drones on water. Actual floating, swimming, flying drones. And they debut at Disneyland Paris on March 29. This is not your average light show, as Forbes reports. Why Paris While Orlando Waits Disney has twelve…
Two people were trapped nearly 1,000 feet in the air in Texas. The rescue took four hours, a team of extraordinary firefighters, and one drone doing a job nobody talked about, as KLTV reports. 925 Feet Up and Nowhere to…
A dog named Sweetie spent the night alone, injured, and hidden in a freezing retention pond. A drone found her in minutes. This is exactly why DFR programs exist, as Oregon Live reports. Sweetie’s Long Night in Happy Valley The…
Out of one of the worst disasters in modern history, a drone company is quietly building something remarkable. This is not a Silicon Valley story. It’s a Fukushima one. From Nuclear Ashes to Drone Innovation Hub When the earthquake and…