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Taiwan Civilians Learn Drones to Counter China
Kuma Academy launched Taiwan's first civil defense drone training program in May 2026, filling sessions that now sell out two months in advance.
China
Export controls, the Shenzhen supply chain, and the geopolitics of the world’s drone-manufacturing superpower.
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Western Star Maps Nevada Tungsten With Drone Magnetics
A junior mining company just used a drone to map a Nevada tungsten property that nobody had explored since the 1950s. Western Star Resources, trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange as WSR, said on June 22 it is running a high-resolution drone magnetic survey across the White Star Tungsten Project in the Charleston Mining District…
Aloft
Marines Fly V-BAT Spy Drone From Warship in South China Sea
The U.S. Marines just launched a ship-based spy drone into the airspace China considers its backyard. Operating from the USS Portland with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, troops put a V-BAT vertical takeoff intelligence drone over the South China Sea, flying surveillance missions in a stretch of ocean where Beijing has spent more than a…
Ukraine
China Unveils 55-Pound Laser That Burns Drones in 4 Seconds
China just put a counter-drone laser on a soldier’s back. At the Defence Information Equipment & Technology Exhibition that opened June 16 in Beijing, the state-linked contractor Harbin Xinguang Optic-Electronics Technology rolled out two man-portable laser weapons, the Lijian II and Lijian III. They were designed to let a single soldier shoot down drones at…
Skydio
Skydio CEO Walks Back A No-Weapons Promise On Decoder, Then Argues Drawing Red Lines Is “Dangerously Misguided”
On Decoder, Skydio CEO Adam Bry walked back his company's posted no-weapons pledge, called drawing red lines "dangerously misguided," and conceded China still builds better drones.
DJI
Czech Sub-250g Drone Hits 351 MPH, Smashes Record
A sub-250-gram (8.8 oz) drone built by a Czech engineering shop just clocked 351.4 mph (565.4 km/h) on a two-way speed run and smashed the standing world record for its category. Born4Flight’s SH250G SpeedHunter, flown by founder Jakub Espandr on May 28, beat the previous mark of 222.7 mph (358.36 km/h) set in Tianjin, China…
DJI
DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Goes Official With Two Cameras, 17 Stops, and a 103GB Body US Buyers Still Cannot Touch
DJI has published the full DJI Osmo Pocket 4P spec sheet, turning a vague Cannes teaser into a real product. The pocket gimbal pairs a new 1-inch wide-angle main camera with a dedicated 60mm telephoto, a combination no prior Pocket has carried. The headline numbers are now concrete: 17 stops of dynamic range on the main sensor,…
China
Drones Are Lighting China’s Fields for Night Harvest
Picture a wheat field in Anhui Province at midnight, lit up like a stadium. The light isn’t coming from towers on the ground. It’s hanging in the air, bolted to a drone that hasn’t landed in hours and doesn’t plan to. Chinese state media posted footage in June of combines harvesting wheat after dark while…
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