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Paladin Drones

Paladin launches NDAA-compliant Knighthawk 2.0 at World Defense Show, signaling a strategic pivot from DJI dependence

Paladin Drones, the Houston-based Drone as First Responder company that built much of its business on modified DJI hardware, just revealed the Knighthawk 2.0 at the World Defense Show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The new drone is NDAA-compliant, built in partnership with Portuguese NATO-certified manufacturer Beyond Vision, and clearly designed to open doors that DJI-based…

Haye KestelooFeb 9

Amazon

Amazon Prime Air launches in Kansas City, its seventh US market, days after Texas drone crash

Amazon activated Prime Air drone delivery in Kansas City, Kansas today, February 9, making it the seventh metropolitan area in the United States to receive the service, as reported by KCTV5. The launch comes just five days after an MK30 drone crashed into a Richardson, Texas apartment building, leaving smoke and debris on a public sidewalk. Here is what you need…

Haye KestelooFeb 9

VTOL

UK Firm’s Ultra Heavy Lift Jet Powered Drone Takes Flight

It is here to lift almost 900 pounds, strap on missiles, and casually launch itself using micro jet turbines like it just doesn’t care about your noise

Rafael SuárezFeb 9

Santa Barbara County Fire crews searching the shoreline at Haskell Beach in Goleta, California.

DJI

DJI Matrice 30 drone helps rescue surfer swept offshore in California

A surf session off the California coast nearly turned tragic, but a lobster trap buoy and a DJI Matrice 30 drone helped write a very different ending, as reported by FOX WEATHER. High surf pulls surfer away from shore The incident happened Friday at Haskell Beach in Goleta, California, where a surfer in his 20s…

Rafael SuárezFeb 9

Weaponized drones

Royal Navy’s Proteus Drone Makes Helicopter History

The Royal Navy has just flown straight into the future, without a pilot, without a cockpit crew, and without any intention of slowing down. The UK’s Navy first full size autonomous helicopter, known as Proteus, has completed its maiden flight at Predannack Airfield in Cornwall as reported by Futura Sciences, and yes, this thing is…

Rafael SuárezFeb 9

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

Michigan

Dearborn Launches Michigan’s First DFR Program

Dearborn is officially airborne. As of February 2, 2026, the City of Dearborn has rolled out a full scale Drone as First Responder program, making it the first city in Michigan to deploy drones as an integrated, citywide emergency response system, as FOX2 DETROIT reports. This is not a limited pilot or a specialty unit…

Rafael SuárezFeb 9

Weaponized drones

Sig Sauer to begin flight tests of armed UAS quadcopter

Armed drones continue to move beyond theory and into practical testing, and Sig Sauer is now preparing to begin flight tests of an armed unmanned quadcopter that signals a deeper shift in how small drones may be used on future battlefields, as Janes reports. The platform, known as the Fire Storm 250, represents a collaboration…

Rafael SuárezFeb 8

Colorado

Drone Drops Flashlight to Stranded 19-Year-Old on Colorado 14er, Helping Rescuers Beat the Storm

Late last month, a 19-year-old hiker went missing on Quandary Peak, a 14er (a mountain with a summit over 14,000 ft) in Summit County, Colorado, as winter weather closed in. After a call came in for an “overdue hiker”, a search team set out to locate him using a drone with a thermal camera, and…

Zachary PeeryFeb 8

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