Export controls, the Shenzhen supply chain, and the geopolitics of the world’s drone-manufacturing superpower.
The HAMZA-3 has a trick most kamikaze drones don’t: modular Lüneberg lenses that inflate its radar cross-section to mimic a fighter jet. Enemy air defense systems burn through expensive interceptor missiles on a drone that costs a fraction of the aircraft it pretends to be. The HAMZA-3 fills the gap between FPV kamikaze drones and…
A Chinese automation company is openly promoting a drone assembly line reportedly bound for North Korea, raising serious questions about export controls and compliance with United Nations sanctions. According to NK News, a video posted on Douyin shows an employee of Jiangsu Nengtai Automation Equipment presenting a fully built drone production line inside its factory…
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) just published a solicitation for something the U.S. military has needed for years but never had: a box that can store drones, launch them in mass, recover them, recharge them, and do it all over again with almost no humans involved. The program is called the Containerized Autonomous Drone…
The SkyFoundry Act to confront this gap head on, and the proposal has now been folded into the latest National Defense Authorization Act.
China has completed the maiden flight of the CH YH-1000S, a hybrid powered unmanned transport aircraft that could reshape how the People’s Liberation Army sustains forces in contested environments like the Taiwan Strait, as SCMP reports. According to China state media, the CH YH-1000S first flew over the weekend from an airport in Chongqing, marking…
The U.S. Marine Corps has quietly crossed an important threshold in military drone development by creating its first fully NDAA compliant
DJI RS 5 launches globally with Z-axis stabilization, 50% more motor torque, and AI tracking module. Priced from $569, the gimbal supports mirrorless cameras up to 6.6 lb.
The Department of Homeland Security recently released a short promotional video highlighting its drone operations, complete with soaring music, slow motion aircraft, and bold on screen language about innovation and airspace security, as reported by Futurism. It is exactly the kind of polished clip meant to project confidence, control, and technical dominance. Then someone noticed…
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