Three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East are offline. Two were directly struck by drones in the UAE. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike close enough to knock it out, as The Register reported.…
Martha’s Vineyard has a deer problem. The deer have a tick problem. And the ticks have been giving Islanders a very serious disease problem for years, as MV Times reports. The solution, apparently, begins with a DJI Matrice 30 at…
Europe has a drone problem. Not a shortage of them. A shortage of the right ones, built by Europeans, owned by Europeans, and answerable to European defense priorities rather than foreign supply chains. The M2UAS project is one piece of…
A woman passed counterfeit bills at three businesses on Cerrillos Road. Instead of sending a patrol officer to drive the corridor looking for her, Santa Fe police clicked a mouse and put a Skydio X10 in the air, as Santa…
A masked man on a bicycle with bolt cutters near a storage facility at 4 in the morning is not subtle. One Louisville resident noticed, called it in, and set off a chain reaction that ended with 37-year-old Christopher Hall…
Fairfax County, Virginia is not testing the waters on Drone as First Responder. The numbers from their first 100 missions make the case better than any press release could. Drones arrived on scene first in 71 of those 100 calls.…
Nobody was hurt. The drone did not survive. And somewhere out there, the pilot is having a very bad Thursday. During the first round of LIV Golf Hong Kong 2026 at The Hong Kong Golf Club, a broadcast drone lost…
A man is alive today because a drone reached his tent before the paramedics did. That is the entire story, as reported by KOB4. Santa Fe first responders located a 47-year-old man unconscious and not breathing near Las Acequias Park…
Warren, Michigan did not test the waters. When the city decided to launch a Drone as First Responder program, it built one that covers both police and fire response simultaneously, funded by a millage voters passed in November, and it…
A small New Hampshire town just voted to buy its first police drone. The board that approved it also made sure nobody could fly it until the rules are written down. That is the right order of operations, as VNEWS…
In 1858, a French photographer tied a camera to a hot air balloon and took the first known aerial photograph just outside Paris. It was art. It was novelty. Nobody had any idea what they had just started. One hundred…
In 2024, land mines and unexploded ordnance killed 1,945 people and injured 4,325 more. Ninety percent were civilians. Nearly half were children. Demining crews removed 105,640 mines that same year. The math is brutal, and it isn’t close. The Oldest…