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America Keeps Buying Expensive Drones. China Keeps Building Millions of Cheap Ones.
A Substack analysis by Kate McKenna has been circulating hard in defense circles this week, and the numbers inside deserve a wider audience. Eleven MQ-9 Reapers downed in under two weeks. $330 million gone, lost to Iranian surface-to-air missiles and…
This FPV Pilot Fixed the DJI Neo 2 With Tape
Tom Palmaers is a Belgian FPV pilot, firefighter, and tactical drone instructor at BSSHOLLAND who has built a quiet but serious reputation in the global FPV community for doing something most pilots don’t bother with: actually understanding what’s happening inside…
Norway’s Elite Soldiers Are Hiding From Drones in Snow
The most sophisticated camouflage technology available to Norway’s elite Arctic reconnaissance unit right now isn’t thermal cloaking, radar-absorbing material, or anything you’d find in a defense procurement catalog. It’s snow. Piled by hand into a dome, allowed to harden, and…

Drones Light the Fire at Pisgah National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service used a modified Freefly Alta X carrying Drone Amplified’s IGNIS aerial ignition system to conduct prescribed burns at the Wilson Ridge unit in Pisgah National Forest last weekend, treating 290 acres of hazardous fuel in terrain…

Drone Drops Knives, Drugs, and a Cell Phone Into New York State Prison, Fueling Push for Hochul’s Anti-Drone Law
At 1 a.m. on a Saturday, a drone flew into the secured grounds of Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York and released a package between two dormitory buildings. Guards found it before any inmate did. The wires sticking out…
Russia Is Giving Iran Satellite Data and Upgraded Shahed Drone Tech, WSJ Reports. The Kremlin Calls It Fake News.
The bidirectional hardware pipeline we first confirmed in March — Russian military navigation systems turning up inside Iranian drones — now has a much more explicit paper trail behind it. The Wall Street Journal reported on March 17, 2026, citing…
DJI Mini 5 Pro Now Available on Amazon Starting at $759 with Prime Shipping
I have been flying drones for years, and the DJI Mini 5 Pro genuinely impressed me. A 1-inch sensor, LiDAR obstacle avoidance, and up to 52 minutes of flight time in something that fits in your jacket pocket. Now it…

Army’s AMP-HEL Laser Passes FAA Safety Test At White Sands — A Stray Airliner Made The Case
The Army's AMP-HEL counter-drone laser passed a joint FAA safety evaluation at White Sands Missile Range on March 7-8, 2026 — and an unplanned commercial aircraft triggered the automated shutoff that made the strongest case for the system's safety. Here's what the test revealed and what it means for U.S. airspace.
Jetson ONE Flies the California Coast and 115 Million People Watched
The inventor of the Jetson ONE took off from his driveway, flew over Pismo Beach surfers and straight over the pier, and landed in Grover Beach. MrBeast filmed it. The world noticed. From a Residential Driveway to the Pacific Ocean…
Amazon Prime Air Quits Drone Alliance Over Safety
Amazon’s Prime Air division has walked away from the Commercial Drone Alliance, and the reason is blunt: a fundamental disagreement over whether detect-and-avoid technology should be mandatory across the national airspace. The split went public March 12 after Reuters obtained…

Joby’s Bay Area Flight: A Masterclass in Marketing vs. Reality
There’s a detail buried in Joby’s Golden Gate flight announcement that most other outlets missed — and it changes how you should read this story. Last Friday, Joby Aviation flew its electric air taxi across the San Francisco Bay, past…

DOT & FAA Launch eVTOL Pilot Program in 26 States — Autonomous Cargo Flights Could Start This Summer
The same executive order that unleashed drone dominance last June is now sending electric air taxis into live commercial airspace. On March 9, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA named eight projects under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program…