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Disney World Has a No-Fly Zone. Now It Has Teeth.
Theme parks like Disney World across the U.S. spent years watching unauthorized drones buzz their crowds with essentially no legal way to stop them. That finally changed in December 2025, and the industry is still figuring out what it means,…
Army Launches Altius-700 Drone From an Apache in Under Six Months
The U.S. Army just demonstrated something that sounds straightforward until you think about what it actually required: launching an autonomous strike drone from a moving Apache attack helicopter in less than six months from the day someone wrote the requirement…
Antigravity A1 Gets Its First Real Price Drop Right on Time
The Antigravity A1 launched in December 2025 with a price tag that made a lot of people curious and a lot of wallets nervous. Four months later, and with the DJI Avata 360 now breathing directly down its neck, the…
Vancouver Transit Police Deploy Drones to Secure FIFA World Cup 2026
The Metro Vancouver Transit Police are getting drones, and they’re doing it before the biggest sporting event this region has ever hosted. The agency confirmed in a March 25 report to the TransLink board that nine officers are already trained…
Ukrainian Strike Drone Crashes in Finland With Live Warhead
A Ukrainian long-range attack drone landed in Finnish territory on Sunday morning with its warhead still intact. Finnish police found it, cordoned off the area, and detonated it in a controlled explosion. No one was hurt. But the incident is…
Rheinmetall CEO Calls Ukraine’s Drones ‘Lego’ Built by ‘Housewives.’ Zelensky Says That CEO Sounds Promotable.
Armin Papperger, Chairman and CEO of Rheinmetall AG, dismissed Ukraine’s drone program as kitchen-table hobbyism in an interview with The Atlantic published Friday, March 28. “They have 3D printers in the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones,” Papperger told…
Drone Navigation Is Getting a Quantum Upgrade
You’ve felt it before. You’re flying your Mavic or your Mini over a trail, everything looks great, and then the signal drops. Your drone hovers in place, looking confused, waiting for satellites to tell it where it is. Now imagine…
Austrian Ski Resort Uses DJI Dock 3 to Optimize Snow
There’s a version of ski resort management where a guy in a snowsuit trudges across a frozen slope at 2 a.m. with a flashlight to check the snowmaking equipment. Austrian resort Planai-Hochwurzen-Bahnen decided that version was inefficient, and possibly a…
Your First Drone Under $300. Everything You Need to Know.
So You Want to Fly a Drone Hi, future pilot. My name is Rafa, and for the better part of the last eight years I have been flying, buying, talking about on my youtube channel, crashing, fixing, writing about them,…
Russia Plans to Train 70,000 Drone Specialists in 2026
Russia is scaling its drone warfare program at a pace that should get the attention of anyone watching the Ukraine conflict. Deputy Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Anatoly Kontsevoy announced at a Federation Council meeting that the Russian…
Draganfly and Palladyne AI Bring SwarmOS Closer to Real Deployment
Draganfly and Palladyne AI have completed another step in their autonomous swarm program, and this one moves the technology closer to actual defense operations. The two companies announced in a press release the successful integration of Palladyne AI’s SwarmOS platform…
Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Can Build 2,000 Interceptor Drones A Day, But Only With The Money To Do It
Zelenskyy told Reuters Ukraine can produce 2,000 interceptor drones per day if it has the budget. Here is what that figure actually means and why the math matters.
ACSL SOTEN Gets SAMO: A 64MP Thermal Payload Built for Operators Who Can’t Use DJI
ACSL is actively promoting SAMO, its dual optical-thermal swappable payload for the SOTEN drone, as the Japan-made platform pushes deeper into U.S. public safety and inspection markets. Built around Teledyne FLIR’s Hadron 640R module, SAMO pairs a 64-megapixel visible camera…
Wing Sets the Record Straight on Five Drone Delivery Myths
Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, published a five-point myth-busting campaign on LinkedIn this week, pushing back on the most common misconceptions about commercial drone delivery. The post drew over 100 reactions and arrived the same week Wing sponsored the networking…
Skydio Gets FAA Approval for One Pilot to Fly Four Drones at Once, and 12 Police Departments Are Already In
The FAA has approved 14 agencies to let one pilot fly up to four Skydio X10 drones simultaneously under a new streamlined BVLOS waiver process.
NATO and Ukraine Open UNITE-Brave Portal, Putting €10 Million in Counter-Drone Contracts Within Reach of Allied Companies
NATO and Ukraine opened the UNITE-Brave NATO web portal on March 25, 2026, giving Allied and Ukrainian companies their first direct access to a matchmaking system tied to a €10 million joint innovation competition. The portal, hosted on Brave1’s website,…
Quantum Systems RAT Drone Gives Europe What It Lacked: A Shahed to Train Against
German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems unveiled a jet-powered target drone called the RAT (Red Air Target) at the 62nd Munich Security Conference, held February 13–15, 2026 — and the problem it solves is blunter than the name suggests. European air-defense…
Freefly Systems Sets Freefly Fest 2026 for August 19 Near Seattle
Freefly Systems will hold its 5th annual Freefly Fest on August 19, 2026, just outside Seattle, Washington. Chief Revenue Officer Matt Isenbarger announced the date on LinkedIn, describing the event as a day of hands-on demos, BBQ, and tours of…
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