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Colombia just acquired 3,744 grenades built to fall from drones, and the aircraft doing the dropping are off-the-shelf DJI Matrice 300 RTK quadcopters. The grenades are homemade by the state arms maker Indumil, and they’re already in service with the Army’s drone battalion. It’s the clearest sign yet of where Colombia’s long fight against armed…
With four days to go before DJI’s official announcement, Igor Bogdanov’s @Quadro_news account has published the first set of official press images of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 in a three-part photo set. DJI has confirmed April 16 as the announcement date across its social channels. What’s left to surprise us is rapidly shrinking. What…
Retail packaging photos of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Creator Combo have surfaced showing the full spec sheet printed on the box, as The New Camera first reported. The image, shared by OsitaLV, reveals a 1-inch sensor with 14 stops of dynamic range, 107GB of built-in storage, 2x lossless zoom, and 4-channel audio output. These…
Colombia just made one of the biggest counter drone moves in the Western Hemisphere, and it did so with a clear message in mind. Airspace is no longer a background concern. It is now a frontline, as reported by Defence Blog. On January 10, the Colombian government announced a COP 6.2 trillion investment, roughly $1.6…
Colombia is reopening a chapter it thought it had closed a decade ago, but this time the crop dusters have rotors instead of wings. After banning aerial fumigation in 2015 due to health and environmental concerns tied to glyphosate, the Colombian government has approved a new plan to spray coca crops using drones, a move…
Drones are reshaping conflict. A disturbing new report from War on the Rocks warns that criminal organizations across Latin America, from Mexican
The sound of a drone is supposed to be exciting. For us, it’s the sound of a powerful tool, a profession. For the residents of Colombia
A Colombian police Black Hawk helicopter was brought down by an armed group using a drone, killing 12 officers in the latest escalation of drone-enabled violence against the country’s security forces. The helicopter was struck Thursday morning near Amalfi, in Antioquia province, by a drone operated by a cocaine-trafficking militia, according to The Wall Street…
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