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DJI Launches Mic Mini 2 With Ten Faceplate Colors And A €33 Starting Price
DJI pushed the Mic Mini 2 live on its Hong Kong product page one week before the teased April 28 global reveal, confirming that the “More Than Sound” campaign is a second-generation wireless microphone, not an accessory refresh or a…
Reliable Robotics Raises $160 Million As SpaceX Alum Pushes FAA For First Commercial Uncrewed Cargo Cert
Reliable Robotics closed a $160M round led by Nimble Partners, pushing valuation near $1B as the SpaceX alum-led startup races toward FAA uncrewed cargo cert.
Coors Field Drone Incursions Prompt Federal Warning
More than a half dozen drones flew into restricted airspace around Coors Field during the Colorado Rockies’ opening homestand against the Philadelphia Phillies from April 3 through 5, as ESPN reported. Nobody was arrested. The FAA and the FBI issued…
Aevex Stock Doubles in Two Days as Wall Street Bets Big on Military Drone Makers
Shares of Aevex Corp. doubled Monday, April 20, 2026, just two trading sessions after the military drone manufacturer listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Class A shares jumped as much as 49% to $40.25, up from the initial public…
24 MQ-9 Reapers Lost Over Iran: A $720 Million Problem
Operation Epic Fury has cost the US Air Force 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones since late February. At roughly $30 million per airframe, the losses add up to around $720 million in hardware alone, as National Interest reports. Iranian surface-to-air missiles…
FAA Picks Palantir, Thales, and Airspace Intelligence to Build AI That Predicts Flight Conflicts Two Hours Out
The Federal Aviation Administration is quietly developing an AI-powered air traffic management tool that would let controllers deconflict flight paths up to two hours before a collision risk emerges, according to reporting from The Air Current published April 17, 2026.…
DJI Lito X1 Spec Sheet Leaked by a Canadian Dealer
DJI Lito X1 launches on April 23. That’s in four days. Somebody apparently forgot to tell Speedy Drone in Toronto, because their product page for the Lito X1 has been live for a while now, complete with a full spec…
DJI Books NAB Show 2026 Booth While Americans Can’t Buy The Pocket 4
DJI will occupy Booth C6719 at the Las Vegas Convention Center when NAB Show 2026 opens April 19, showing off its Ronin and Osmo product lines to the broadcast industry for four days straight. The company confirmed its attendance in…
FAA DETER Program Lets First-Time Drone Violators Trade Appeal Rights For Smaller Fines
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a new drone enforcement program on April 16, 2026, that offers first-time individual violators reduced civil penalties or shorter certificate suspensions in exchange for admitting liability and surrendering their right to appeal. The Drone Expedited…
Japan’s $450 Wooden Drone Is a Ukraine Lesson in Plywood
A Tokyo defense startup just put a $450 fixed-wing drone on the Japanese market, and the airframe is made of wood. JISDA, short for Japan Integrated Security Design Agency, announced the ACM-01 Shiraha on April 14 in Tokyo. It’s a…
Hyfix Raised $15M to Out-Engineer DJI. Now Comes the Hard Part
A Santa Clara startup called Hyfix Spatial Intelligence just pulled in $15 million to build an American-designed system-on-a-chip that folds flight control, high-precision positioning, secure communications, and onboard compute into a single piece of U.S.-manufactured silicon. Craft Ventures led the…
Pentagon Urges FCC to Reject DJI’s Petition: What This Means for Drone Pilots
So, let me get this straight, and you tell me if I’m way off here, but DJI drones are dangerous enough to block future models, but not dangerous enough to ban the estimated 2 million that are flying around in…
