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U.S. Army Trains Infantry Units With Bomber Drones
United States

U.S. Army Trains Infantry Units With Bomber Drones

The U.S. Army is quietly but clearly signaling where modern infantry combat is heading. During a recent Spartan Focus Table VI exercise, soldiers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division trained with bomber style drones, integrating low cost unmanned systems directly into infantry fire support roles, as reported by Defence Blog. The…

AIR Unveils DrN 600 Electric Cargo Drone
EVTOL

AIR Unveils DrN 600 Electric Cargo Drone

Florida based advanced air mobility company AIR has officially pulled the curtain back on the DrN 600, an uncrewed electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that is clearly designed to do something rare in this industry: actually work for a living. Why my Neo 2 can’t be like this? The announcement marks a public debut,…

Poland Builds Europe’s Largest Anti Drone Wall
Poland

Poland Builds Europe’s Largest Anti Drone Wall

Poland has signed a contract worth roughly 3.8 billion dollars to deploy what will become Europe’s largest integrated counter drone system, a move shaped directly by hard lessons from the war in Ukraine and rising airspace violations along NATO’s eastern edge, as reported by Aviacion Online. The program, known as SAN or System Antydronowy SAN,…

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

U.S. Marines Test Fiber Optic FPV Drones at Sea

The U.S. Marine Corps is rediscovering an old truth with a very modern twist. When the airwaves are hostile, unreliable, or outright weaponized, the smartest move might be to avoid them entirely. From January 27 to 29, 2026, I Marine Expeditionary Force, working with the Defense Innovation Unit, evaluated fiber optic FPV drones at Marine…

Aerial Ashes Image of Drone In-Flight | Photo Credits: Aerial Ashes UK
DJI

Aerial Ashes Brings Drone-Based Ashes Scattering to the US, Starting at $750

A UK-based company by the name of Aerial Ashes is now offering its memorial services in the United States, but its business model will make you do a double take: scattering loved ones’ ashes from the skies with a DJI M600 drone. Aerial Ashes launched in the UK in 2019, and was founded by Christopher…

RN Wildcat Shows Live Drone Targeting in Flight Trials
Drone Supremacy

RN Wildcat Shows Live Drone Targeting in Flight Trials

The Royal Navy has taken another clear step toward a more networked future, after a Wildcat HMA2 helicopter successfully demonstrated real time targeting using live data from multiple uncrewed aircraft during trials at the National Drone Hub in Predannack, Cornwall, as The Avionist reports. During the event, a Wildcat from 815 Naval Air Squadron carried…

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