Export controls, the Shenzhen supply chain, and the geopolitics of the world’s drone-manufacturing superpower.
DJI launched the Mic Mini 2S on July 2, and the headline change is simple. The tiny clip-on wireless mic now records inside itself. It carries 14.5GB of built-in storage, captures 32-bit floating-point audio, and pairs up to four transmitters to a single receiver. DJI shipped it in China first, with global pricing and dates…
DJI pushed version 2.10.10 of its Mimo app to Apple’s App Store on July 1, and the release notes read like a feature list for the Osmo Pocket 4P, the dual-lens pocket gimbal that still has no US launch date. The update adds four Master Filters, full D-Log 2 support in Color Presets, share codes…
A US pilot says he saw an Iranian "jellyfish" drone swarm before ejecting. US intelligence isn't convinced, and a Chinese missile is the likelier cause.
FBI Deputy Director Chris Raia told Fox News Digital it is “only a matter of time” before the kind of drone attacks seen on battlefields in Ukraine and the Middle East reach the United States, and he framed a lone attacker flying a cheap, cellular-controlled aircraft as a threat that worries him more than a…
Kuma Academy launched Taiwan's first civil defense drone training program in May 2026, filling sessions that now sell out two months in advance.
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…
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…
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…
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