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Nobody asked Max Imagination to do this. There was no grant, no sponsor, no defense contract. Just a YouTuber, an ESP32 microcontroller that costs about as much as a decent burrito, a consumer 3D printer, and a question that apparently needed answering: how fast can you go when the budget ceiling is $155? The answer,…
ShadowBreak Intl's Flying Sword drone destroys targets at 450 km/h through kinetic impact alone. No warhead. Fiber-optic guidance. Defense-only access.
There is a specific sound a drone makes at 690 km/h. It is not the low hum you hear at a park. It is a high-pitched scream — brief, startling, and then gone. Most people watching laugh. They cannot process what just happened. Benjamin Biggs, the Melbourne aerospace engineer behind the Blackbird speed drone, has…
Australia’s competition watchdog just swatted a drone distributor out of the sky. (just like a famous australian Kangaroo punched this drone out of the sky) Drone TK Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Tekron, has admitted to engaging in resale price maintenance after directing resellers not to advertise or sell DJI drones below specified prices, as…
Police in regional Australia are about to test a capability that feels like a preview of where public safety aviation is heading. In Moree, NSW Police are deploying DJI Matrice 4TD aircraft as part of a six month trial that allows officers in Sydney to remotely pilot drones operating more than 600 kilometers away, as…
Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs and the Drone Pro Hub team are back. Weeks after Luke Maximo Bell reclaimed the Guinness World Record for fastest drone with his Peregreen V4 at 657.59 km/h (408.6 mph), Biggs took his upgraded Blackbird to the Australian outback and hit a peak GPS speed of 690 km/h (428.8 mph)…
If you’ve ever wondered about what the the deepest point in the ocean actually looks like, a new AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) by Fujitsu may hold the answer. We have a ton of quadcopters on the consumer side, plus a (somewhat) healthy pipeline of professional and enterprise systems. Meanwhile, the underwater world still feels like…
Dutch lifeguard brigades in Katwijk and Noordwijk adopt DJI drones for summer 2026 beach rescues, following Australia and New York's proven safety programs.
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