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Drones and AI Are Changing How the World Finds Land Mines

In 2024, land mines and unexploded ordnance killed 1,945 people and injured 4,325 more. Ninety percent were civilians. Nearly half were children. Demining crews removed 105,640 mines that same year. The math is brutal, and it isn’t close. The Oldest Problem in Modern Warfare At least 57 countries still have live antipersonnel mines buried in…

Weekly UAS News: Oregon Exposes FCC Ban Costs, DJI's 96% Market Share, Export Rule Changes, Illegal Drone Deer Scouting, and a 925-Foot Tower Rescue
DJI

Weekly UAS News: Oregon Exposes FCC Ban Costs, DJI’s 96% Market Share, Export Rule Changes, Illegal Drone Deer Scouting, and a 925-Foot Tower Rescue

Oregon's white paper reveals the FCC drone ban could cost states up to $2 billion, a new FAA study confirms DJI controls 96% of US airspace, the Commerce Department eases drone export rules, Indiana prosecutes its first illegal drone deer scouting case, and a drone helps rescue two people trapped on a 925-foot tower in Texas.

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface
Skydio

Oklahoma Is Building the Drone Workforce From the Classroom Up

Oklahoma just showed the rest of the country what aerospace education leadership actually looks like. And it started with teachers. Two Days at OSU That Actually Matter On February 27 and 28, the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics teamed up with OAIRE, the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education, to bring educators from…

Ukraine Is Scaling Up Interceptor Drones as Russia's Shahed Threat Outpaces Every Defense
White House

Zelenskyy Confirms U.S. Request for Ukrainian Anti-Shahed Support — While Fox News Was Accidentally Airing Ukrainian Drone Footage as American Technology

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Wednesday that the United States has formally asked Ukraine for help defending against Iranian-made Shahed drones in the Middle East. “We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against ‘shaheds’ in the Middle East region,” Zelenskyy posted on X. “I gave instructions to provide the necessary…

NASA's Dragonfly Enters Full Assembly Phase as $3.35B Budget and Schedule Risks Loom Over 2028 Launch
NASA

NASA’s Dragonfly Enters Full Assembly Phase as $3.35B Budget and Schedule Risks Loom Over 2028 Launch

Full rotorcraft integration on NASA’s Dragonfly octocopter began in early 2026 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — the same facility where engineers spent the past three years validating rotor performance in simulated Titan conditions. The timing matters because this is the phase where problems get expensive fast. And according…

Pentagon And Gulf States Eye Ukrainian Interceptor Drones As Patriot Missile Stocks Run Low
Counter-Drone

Pentagon And Gulf States Eye Ukrainian Interceptor Drones As Patriot Missile Stocks Run Low

The economics finally broke. Gulf states spent the last week firing Patriot interceptors worth over $13.5 million each at Iranian Shaheds that cost $30,000 to build. Now, according to reporting by the Financial Times, the Pentagon and at least one Gulf government are in active talks to buy Ukrainian drone interceptors that do the same…

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