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DJI RS 5 launches globally with Z-axis stabilization, 50% more motor torque, and AI tracking module. Priced from $569, the gimbal supports mirrorless cameras up to 6.6 lb.
Agri Spray Drones and WinField United have entered a new co marketing agreement aimed squarely at accelerating the adoption of spray drones across modern agriculture, blending hardware, chemistry, and agronomic know how into a single, more polished pitch for growers, as Michigan Farm News reports. The partnership focuses on awareness, education, and practical deployment, which…
A suspect in Nurmijärvi, Finland shot down a police surveillance drone during a standoff at a private residence. He then tried to leave the cordoned area while still armed. Police shot him. The suspect survived with non-life-threatening injuries. The drone did not. DroneXL Has Tracked This Pattern For Years Suspects shooting at police drones is…
You cannot hit a moving passenger train with a GPS coordinate. A pre-programmed Shahed-136 flies to a fixed point on a map and detonates. If the target moves, the drone misses. Three Shaheds hit the Barvinkove-Lviv-Chop train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Tuesday anyway, striking not the locomotive but a passenger car in the center…
The Department of Homeland Security recently released a short promotional video highlighting its drone operations, complete with soaring music, slow motion aircraft, and bold on screen language about innovation and airspace security, as reported by Futurism. It is exactly the kind of polished clip meant to project confidence, control, and technical dominance. Then someone noticed…
Russia’s drone program just revealed another uncomfortable truth for the West. Even under heavy sanctions, American and European microchips are still showing up inside Russian weapons, this time inside a new high speed attack drone called the Geran 5, as Kyiv Independent reports. As we previously wrote on DroneXL, Ukrainian forces shot down two of…
Lasers usually show up in military headlines as weapons, not as power supplies. PowerLight Technologies is flipping that expectation by using lasers to keep drones alive instead of shooting them down, as Techspot reports. The company has confirmed successful subsystem testing of its end to end laser power beaming system, designed to wirelessly recharge unmanned…
Ukraine has quietly turned battlefield necessity into a brutally efficient incentive system. According to newly appointed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a pay per kill program targeting Russian Shahed style attack drones has helped Ukraine secure roughly 40,000 interceptor drones in a single month, as Business Insider reports. The idea is simple and ruthless in execution.…
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