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China Drones: Chinese UAV manufacturers, DJI, domestic regulations, export policies, and the growing influence of Chinese-made drones in global markets.
Japan Scrambles Jets as Chinese Drone Flies Near Taiwan Amid “Sea of Fire” Threats
Japan scrambled its fighter jets on Sunday after a suspected Chinese military drone was detected flying near its southernmost territory, dangerously escalating tensions that have flared over the future of Taiwan. The incident comes just days after Beijing issued a…
Counter-Drone Radar Firm Chaos Industries Raises $510M As Defense Tech Investment Hits Record Highs
Counter-drone radar manufacturer Chaos Industries has secured $510 million in a Series D funding round that closed last month, bringing the Los Angeles-based company’s valuation to $4.5 billion. The funding represents the latest sign of surging investor interest in defense…
US Sanctions Ukrainian Firms Supplying Drone Parts to Iran—The Same Drones Russia Uses to Attack Ukraine
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned two Ukrainian companies Wednesday for supplying critical aerospace components to Iran’s state-owned drone manufacturer HESA—the same entity producing Shahed-136 drones that Russia has launched by the tens of thousands against Ukrainian cities throughout 2025. The…
DARPA Offers $6.5M For Drones That Carry 4X Their Weight In Lift Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a $6.5 million competition challenging innovators across America to design drones capable of carrying payloads more than four times their own weight. The DARPA Lift Challenge, announced November 13, 2025, aims…
DJI Osmo Action 6 Launches in China With World’s First Variable Aperture Action Camera
DJI has released the Osmo Action 6 in China today, featuring the world’s first variable aperture lens in an action camera alongside a larger sensor and substantial performance upgrades. The launch comes five days ahead of the camera’s scheduled global…
DJI Neo 2 Launches Globally With Omnidirectional Obstacle Avoidance And Dual-Axis Gimbal, But U.S. Pilots Left Waiting
DJI officially launched the Neo 2 on November 13, 2025, bringing comprehensive safety upgrades and dramatically improved imaging capabilities to its palm-launched drone platform across Europe, Canada, and Brazil—but the United States remains conspicuously absent from the rollout despite the…
US Slaps Sanctions on Global Network Fueling Iran’s Drone Rebuilding Effort After June War
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned 32 individuals and entities across eight countries on Wednesday for operating procurement networks that supply Iran’s ballistic missile and drone production programs, marking the latest attempt to prevent Tehran from reconstituting military capabilities destroyed during…
Shield AI’s X-BAT: SpaceX-Style Vertical Landing Meets Combat-Proven AI in $27M Fighter Drone
A jet-powered drone that launches vertically like a rocket, flies over 2,000 miles autonomously without GPS, and lands tail-first on a trailer could reshape air warfare—and it’s built by engineers who perfected SpaceX’s reusable rocket landings. Shield AI unveiled the…
DJI Avata 360 promotional pictures just leaked and they are promising!
Remember the pictures of the DJI Avata 3 from 6 months ago? We now know it wasn’t the. Avata 3… It was the DJI Avata 360 all along! While DJI was busy developing its DJI Osmo 360, they where also…
From Teenage Drone Racers To $121M Defense Contractors: How Two 20-Somethings Are Building America’s FPV War Machine
Soren Monroe-Anderson was just 20 years old when he walked into the Pentagon with his friend Olaf Hichwa, trying to sell drones they’d built in his parents’ garage. A senior Department of Defense official shut them down immediately: “You can’t…
FAI Launches Drone Soccer: The World’s First Head-to-Head Air Sport
Can you imagine having your drone and hit other drones on the air without any kind of penalization? For me it sounds freaking fun. And maybe to you, too. Welcome to Drone Soccer — a new, high-speed competition where drones…
Germany Creates Anti-Drone Strike Teams, Rushes Help To Belgium After Europe Realizes It’s Years Behind On Airspace Defense
Germany is establishing rapid-response counter-drone units and has deployed military specialists to Belgium following a wave of mysterious drone sightings that forced multiple airport closures across Europe, exposing critical gaps in the continent’s airspace security infrastructure. “These anti-drone units are…