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.
A former drone operator from Russia’s elite Rubikon unit has defected to Ukraine, offering a rare inside look at how one of Moscow’s high profile UAV formations recruits, trains, and maintains control over its personnel. The interview was published by Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate through its “I Want to Live” surrender initiative, and reported by…
Europe just gave a cargo drone a new job title. The Black Swan, originally built to haul freight across continents, is being refitted into a high flying sentinel by Bulgaria’s Dronamics and Germany’s HENSOLDT, as Next Gen Defense reports. The result is something they call “Detect and Defend.” Which sounds polite. In practice, it means…
From Feb. 20 to 22, 64 FPV pilots will compete in the 7th Annual Micro Drone Race, flying tight, high speed lines through a custom course
The United States Army is about to add a new insect to its battlefield ecosystem, and this one hunts in midair. In March, the Army’s Global Response Force will begin assessing the Bumblebee V2, a four rotor FPV interceptor designed to chase down and physically ram hostile drones out of the sky, as Defense News…
At the Munich Security Conference, Germany’s Auterion and Ukraine’s Airlogix announced a joint venture to mass produce autonomous strike drones for Ukraine and NATO allies, as Militarnyi reported.
If the numbers are accurate, this was not a strike. It was a warehouse extinction event. Ukraine says it has destroyed approximately 6,000 Russian FPV drones in a precision strike on a storage site in the Rostov region, as UNITED24 reports. The claim comes from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which…
A police drone made the difference between a long night and a safe reunion in Pennsylvania this week. On February 2 at 9:39 p.m., the Buckingham Township Police Department requested drone support from the Warrington Township Police Department to help locate a missing endangered man suffering from dementia, as Patch.com reported. Time was critical. Darkness…
At the recent Singapore Airshow, China brought its aviation fireworks. Front and center stood the sleek J-35A, posed like a stealthy supermodel under bright expo lights. But over at the massive booth of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, something quieter sat with far more realistic export potential. The new Wing Loong X, as reported by…
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