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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…
Beyond Drones: How a 7,000-Unit Vacuum Hack is Fueling the DJI Ban
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a hawkish national security think tank with a documented history of opposing Chinese technology in U.S. markets, has filed a formal response with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging the agency to reject…
Lutnick at Zipline: A New Blueprint for the American Drone Economy
The photos from inside Zipline’s South San Francisco manufacturing facility show Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, examining a drone airframe alongside CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton — American flags visible in the background. It’s a deliberate image, and it carries…
DJI Avata 360 Confirmed In Two Versions: The 4G Model That Won’t Work Outside China
Ten days before the March 26 launch, a product database listing surfaced on X this afternoon showing something nobody had broken out yet: the DJI Avata 360 comes in two distinct hardware versions. Model DVN3NT is the standard drone. Model…
State Grid Bets $250 Million on DJI Drones — And It’s Not a Pilot Program
The numbers are hard to ignore. DJI Enterprise has won the State Grid Corporation of China’s first batch of drone inspection procurement contracts for 2026, with a winning bid of 1.83 billion yuan — approximately $250 million USD, according to…
China’s AI-Powered Radar Takes On Drone Swarms as US-Iran War Drives New Detection Race
The Iran conflict is doing more than destroying infrastructure and tankers. It’s stress-testing air defense systems in real time, and Beijing is watching every radar return very carefully. China has publicly confirmed it is integrating AI algorithms into its air…
DJI Avata 360 Leaked Pricing Undercuts Insta360 Antigravity A1 by More Than $1,000 Ahead of March 26 Launch
I’ve watched DJI enter new product categories for years. The strategy is always the same: price below market expectations and let volume absorb the margin. The leaked pricing for the DJI Avata 360, set to officially launch on March 26,…
EU Motors Opens Florida Plant to Build Drone Motors in America
A Polish drone motor manufacturer just opened a production facility in South Florida, and the reason it exists at all tells you everything about where the U.S. drone industry is headed. EU Motors, one of the largest brushless DC motor…
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could Let One Person Command a Drone Swarm
The Chinese PLA demonstrated what a single operator directing 200 fixed-wing drones looks like in January. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is now warning that with AI, that number could scale by orders of magnitude — and the operator count could…
Ukraine Hits China-Free Drone Milestone — But Mass Production at That Standard Is Years Away
Back in July 2025, Ukrainian officials told us independence from Chinese drone components was “one or two quarters away.” The New York Times is reporting today that Ukraine has hit that target. In a basement workshop somewhere in Ukraine, dozens…
DJI AVATA 360: Price List Leaked and World Release Date: April 9th
Short update today: It’s one of those days where you suddenly get surprised by the complete DJI Avata 360 price list on a European webstore. The official teaser dropped yesterday but here are all new pictures. Update on the release…
The State of Ag Drones in the U.S. is Dying Quickly
If you or someone you know works in agriculture, there’s a possibility they have seen a large “Ag drone” being used on a nearby farm as a replacement for traditional crop-spraying planes. The entire drone industry has been running on…
