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Soldiers in camouflage stand beside a green military utility vehicle on a dirt road along a tall steel border wall, with a gray quadcopter drone resting on the ground in the foreground.

Department of Homeland Security

CBP Logged 37,000 Border Drone Flights In FY2026, Down From 42,000

CBP counted 37,000 near-border drone flights in FY2026, down from 42,000. Its February data suggests the 42,000 included the Canadian border.

Haye KestelooOct 15

White DJI Osmo Pocket 4P with its two stacked camera lenses held out toward the viewer by a woman in a white top, out of focus on a city street

TEASER

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P In Pearl White Launches October 20, US Gets A 404

DJI's teaser sets October 20 at 12 PM GMT for the Pearl White Osmo Pocket 4P, 82 days after the black model. Its Notify Me link ends on a 404 in the US.

Haye KestelooOct 15

eVTOL

DeLorean Joins Flying-Car Racing in a Series That Says 'Remote Today'

DeLorean will field the US team in Airspeeder's flying-car racing series from November. Its first racer comes from a line built to fly with nobody aboard.

Haye KestelooOct 15

Amazon

Amazon's Westborough Drones Need Own FAA Review, Markey and Warren Say

Markey, Warren, McGovern and Trahan asked Amazon and the FAA for a Westborough-only review of the drone hub, with answers requested by Oct. 29.

Haye KestelooOct 14

Nose and cockpit of a gray US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber taxiing across a concrete flightline

United Kingdom

MI5 Chief: Iran Hasn't Shown the UK Drone Reach That Sent B-1s Home

MI5 chief Ken McCallum says Iran's UK operations have been nowhere near the drone capability feared at RAF Fairford, where the US pulled its B-1s.

Haye KestelooOct 13

Police

Flock Bets on Police Drones as San Francisco Weighs Drone Limits

Flock's CEO says drones will be nearly half its future revenue. San Francisco's Police Commission takes up its police drone rules on October 14.

Haye KestelooOct 13

Kyle Nordfors in a red Weber County Search and Rescue shirt holds a DJI Matrice 30T overhead with one arm against a blue sky, propellers spinning, as a second man watches from behind

Police

DJI Curbs Hit Police Budgets: $10,500 Matrice vs. $21,000 US Rival

One Ocean County, NJ sheriff's drone kit costs $29,428. NPR priced a US-made rival at twice DJI's Matrice 400, and sheriffs want an FCC exemption.

Haye KestelooOct 13

Brick facade of the Forbes Municipal Building at 45 West Main Street in Westborough, Massachusetts, with its name lettered on the corner and a flagpole to the left

Amazon

Amazon Drone Pad Appeal Set for Nov. 2 as Westborough Drafts Bylaw

Westborough's ZBA hears the appeal against Amazon's drone pad on Nov. 2. Town Meeting votes Oct. 19 on a drone bylaw whose text the warrant does not carry.

Haye KestelooOct 12

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