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DJI Avata 360 Is Likely the Last New DJI Drone You Can Buy in the US. Here Is Why.
I have covered every twist in the DJI regulatory saga for years. The Section 1709 deadline. The FCC Covered List vote. The shell company investigations. The lawsuit. Through all of it, one question keeps landing in my inbox from American…
Archer Aviation’s eIPP selection brings air taxis closer to US cities, but certification questions remain
The photo tells you everything about where Archer Aviation actually is right now. That’s N703AX, the company’s Midnight eVTOL air taxi, flying in conventional airplane mode. The six fixed VTOL-only propellers sit stowed on top while the six tilt-propellers on…
Europe Picked Airbus to Build Its Next Military Drone. Here Is What That Means.
Europe has a drone problem. Not a shortage of them. A shortage of the right ones, built by Europeans, owned by Europeans, and answerable to European defense priorities rather than foreign supply chains. The M2UAS project is one piece of…
Drone Dominance Gauntlet I: Skycutter Tops Leaderboard As Pentagon Prepares $150 Million Attack Drone Order
The Department of War’s Drone Dominance Program has published its Gauntlet I leaderboard, naming 11 companies set to receive orders for a combined 30,000 one-way attack drones worth up to $150 million. Brandon Torres Declet, CEO of Exyn Technologies and…
DJI AVATA 360 Leak: Low pricing, replaceable lenses, next teaser date
For everyone waiting on the DJI Avata 360; you are in for a surprise and you are going to be spoiled in the coming weeks. DJI is setting things up to absolutely destroy the competition (Antigravity A1) and the prices…
DJI Avata 360 Officially Teased. The Wait For This New DJI Drone Is Almost Over.
DJI posted a teaser on its official X account yesterday. No product name. No specs. Just four words and a video that tells you everything. “An All-New Dimension” On March 3, the @DJIGlobal account posted a short video with a…
Motor-G ships 200,000 drone motors per month, making it Ukraine’s largest engine manufacturer by a wide margin
The Ukrainian drone motor market consumed roughly 9.6 million units last year. One company now claims 17% of that market. A detailed feature by Defender Media profiles Motor-G, the Ukrainian manufacturer behind those numbers. We have been covering Ukraine’s push…
Kansas City Police Launch Drone First Responder Program
Eight drone nests, 30 seconds to scene, and a Chinese-made aircraft at the center of an American public safety debate. Kansas City just went live. The System That Gets There Before the Cruiser Eight drone nests are now positioned across…
CJNG’s Tech Arsenal: How Drones, AI, and TikTok Kept Mexico’s Most Dangerous Cartel Running After El Mencho’s Death
Mexican Army Special Forces killed Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes this past weekend in Tapalpa, Jalisco — the most wanted drug lord in Mexico, with a $10 million US bounty on his head. Within hours of federal confirmation, the…
German Parts Inside Russian Geran Drones Expose a Sanctions Evasion Problem That Criminal Networks Are Exploiting
Every Geran drone that Russia fires at a Ukrainian city carries between eight and 12 transistors made in Germany. That detail, confirmed by Ukraine’s military intelligence service HUR to Deutsche Welle, is not a rounding error or a quirk of…
Iran’s Shahed-136 Hits Bahrain, Kuwait, and Dubai in Broad Gulf Strike Wave
The buzzing sound is unmistakable. Anyone who has watched footage of a Shahed-136 inbound over a city knows it — that flat, nasal drone of a small piston engine, audible seconds before impact. That sound hit Manama, Kuwait City, and…
US Commerce Department Streamlines Drone Export Controls: A Strategic Push Toward Allied Supply Chains
The policy change is narrow on paper. The implications are not. On January 21, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that removes licensing requirements for certain commercial UAVs exported to most…