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An Iranian drone struck the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus around midnight local time on Sunday, March 2, 2026. The strike caused limited damage and no casualties. Hours earlier, an RAF Typhoon operating out of Qatar had shot down an Iranian drone in what the Ministry of Defence called a “defensive air patrol,” marking…
Phase I kicked off in February at Fort Benning. Twelve vendors competing to collectively deliver 30,000 drones at $5,000 a unit.
Disney is about to put drones on water. Actual floating, swimming, flying drones. And they debut at Disneyland Paris on March 29. This is not your average light show, as Forbes reports. Why Paris While Orlando Waits Disney has twelve parks around the world. Only two of them run nightly drone shows. That gap is…
There is a specific sound a drone makes at 690 km/h. It is not the low hum you hear at a park. It is a high-pitched scream — brief, startling, and then gone. Most people watching laugh. They cannot process what just happened. Benjamin Biggs, the Melbourne aerospace engineer behind the Blackbird speed drone, has…
Two people were trapped nearly 1,000 feet in the air in Texas. The rescue took four hours, a team of extraordinary firefighters, and one drone doing a job nobody talked about, as KLTV reports. 925 Feet Up and Nowhere to Go It started as a Saturday morning balloon flight in Gregg County, Texas. It ended…
A dog named Sweetie spent the night alone, injured, and hidden in a freezing retention pond. A drone found her in minutes. This is exactly why DFR programs exist, as Oregon Live reports. Sweetie’s Long Night in Happy Valley The call came in around noon on Friday. A dog had slipped through a fence near…
The buzzing sound is unmistakable. Anyone who has watched footage of a Shahed-136 inbound over a city knows it — that flat, nasal drone of a small piston engine, audible seconds before impact. That sound hit Manama, Kuwait City, and Dubai this weekend. If you’ve been following the Shahed’s trajectory from Ukrainian skies to the…
The policy change is narrow on paper. The implications are not. On January 21, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that removes licensing requirements for certain commercial UAVs exported to most Wassenaar Arrangement member states and expands the License Exception STA pathway for select MT-controlled drone…
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