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MI5 Chief: Iran Hasn't Shown the UK Drone Reach That Sent B-1s Home
MI5 chief Ken McCallum says Iran's UK operations have been nowhere near the drone capability feared at RAF Fairford, where the US pulled its B-1s.
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Last updated October 13, 2026 — the feed below updates with every new story.
Drone Service Providers
Drone Pilots Who Don't Adapt Won't Last Two Years: A 90-Day Plan
Part 2 with Amy Wiegand: how drone service providers handle regulation they can't control, build a 30, 60, 90-day plan, and what will separate survivors.
Police
Flock Bets on Police Drones as San Francisco Weighs Drone Limits
Flock's CEO says drones will be nearly half its future revenue. San Francisco's Police Commission takes up its police drone rules on October 14.
Police
DJI Curbs Hit Police Budgets: $10,500 Matrice vs. $21,000 US Rival
One Ocean County, NJ sheriff's drone kit costs $29,428. NPR priced a US-made rival at twice DJI's Matrice 400, and sheriffs want an FCC exemption.
Deal
DJI Mini 5 Pro Stays at a Record-Low $679 After Prime Big Deal Days
The DJI Mini 5 Pro is $679 at Amazon, its lowest price yet. The cut landed with Prime Big Deal Days on October 6 and was still live October 12.
Amazon
Amazon Drone Pad Appeal Set for Nov. 2 as Westborough Drafts Bylaw
Westborough's ZBA hears the appeal against Amazon's drone pad on Nov. 2. Town Meeting votes Oct. 19 on a drone bylaw whose text the warrant does not carry.
Drone Strike
Drug Traffickers Could Become Africa's Drone Arms Dealers, Paper Warns
Robi Sen warns drug traffickers could arm African groups with drones, but his paper calls its drugs-for-drones barter claim an unverified lead.
Drone Delivery
Gastonia Tells Residents Why Walmart Drones Will Be Over Their Homes
Walmart finished a drone delivery site at its Gastonia, N.C., Supercenter. Drones will fly about 6 miles out, and the FAA allows 400 a day per hub.
Europe
Harmattan AI's 2,000 km Drone Doesn't Need GPS, and Morocco Wants It
Harmattan AI says its IRIFI strike drone reaches 2,000 km without relying on GPS. A day later, Morocco signed a letter of intent to develop it locally.
DJI Phantom 4 Pro
DJI Ends Phantom 4 Pro V2 Repairs Oct. 31 and Tells Owners to Buy New
DJI ends Phantom 4 Pro V2 service October 31 and Agras T16 and T20 service November 2, as the FCC weighs barring the spray drones that replace them.
Drone Delivery
DroneXL Adds 20 Drone Delivery Town Guides as Local Votes Pile Up
Twenty new DroneXL resident guides for towns facing drone delivery: who flies, who decides, what towns can still do, and eight dates before Nov. 10.
Defense Tech
Airlogix Seeks $100M At $2B Valuation As Russia Bombs Its Factories
Ukraine's Airlogix is in talks to raise $100 million at over $2 billion, Forbes reports. The price rests on drone factories in Germany, Canada and the UK.
Zipline
Round Rock Says It Has No Zoning Rule for Zipline's Drone Hub
Zipline's Austin hub sits outside Round Rock city limits. The city says its zoning has no rule for drone hubs and will write one after a second opens.
Drone Delivery
Belvedere Votes on Drone Delivery Monday. Here Is the Residents' Guide
Belvedere, CA votes Oct. 12 on Marin's first drone delivery ordinance. DroneXL's guide: what the city decides, what the FAA owns, what residents can do.
Wingtra
Wingtra Ran 180 Simulations in Six Months to Design the RAY Drone
AirShaper says Wingtra simulated 180 WingtraRAY candidates in six months and gained 56% payload and 12% efficiency over the WingtraOne.
FCC Filing
FCC Vote Would Shut Out Chinese Labs That Test 82% of US Devices
The FCC votes October 29 on ending recognition of every mainland China test lab by December 1, 2028. DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P was tested at one of them.
FAA
FAA Lets Tower Inspection Drones Fly Above LAANC Grids, No Tower Call
FAA Order JO 7200.23E, effective Oct. 31, exempts tower inspections from ATC coordination above the grid, writes rules for Class E airports and more.
FAA
Dallas Drone Pilot Faces 8 Years. The Runway Charge Carries Just One
Pujan Gajjar, 24, is indicted on four counts over alleged drone flights at Love Field and DFW. By DroneXL's reading, the certificate counts carry the time.
FCC Filing
FCC Oct. 29 Vote Ends 35-Year Ban on Drones in 800 MHz Cellular Band
FCC votes October 29 on lifting a 1991 airplane-phone rule that kept drones off 50 MHz of carrier spectrum. AT&T, Verizon and Zipline backed it.
Zipline
Zipline Starts Austin Deliveries With FAA Comment Window Still Open
Zipline opened delivery in Round Rock on October 9 for 5,000 residents, two days before comments close on the FAA's draft review of its Austin plans.
FAA
FAA Part 107 Test Adds Chart Questions Oct. 26 Not in the Supplement
From October 26, the FAA Part 107 knowledge test draws chart questions from current sectionals, not the printed supplement. One in six already fails.
Pilot Institute
DJI Neo 3 Unboxing Leak, 71,207-Drone Record, FAA $12M, FBI School
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: the DJI Neo 3 has a video leak, Sky Elements sets a Guinness World Record, the FAA hands out $12 million to drone test sites, and the FBI doubles its counter-drone school capacity.
Amazon
Amazon Tells North Myrtle Beach: Ask the FAA. FAA: Ask Amazon and City
Amazon told North Myrtle Beach the FAA decides overflights and its drones stay under 68 decibels. The FAA says ask Amazon and the city. Its table says 82.
TEASER
DJI Teases Dock 4 With Battery Swapping for October 14, Not for the US
DJI's October 14 teaser shows its next dock, the leaked Dock 4, swapping a charged battery into a new drone. Dock 3 charges in place. The US can't buy it.
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