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FBI launches national counter drone training center

The FBI has quietly flipped the switch on a new national hub designed to deal with one of aviation’s fastest growing gray zones, illegal and hostile drone activity over US airspace. Called the National Counter UAS Training Center, or NCUTC, the program is meant to train state and local law enforcement to detect, identify, track,…

Trump's 'Drone-Free Roof' Reveals How Butler Changed Everything
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Trump’s ‘Drone-Free Roof’ Reveals How Butler Changed Everything

President Donald Trump announced Monday that his controversial $400 million White House ballroom will feature bulletproof glass and a “drone-free roof” – vague marketing speak that nonetheless reveals how profoundly the Butler assassination attempt has reshaped his thinking about aerial threats. “It’s got all bulletproof glass, it’s got all drone, they call it drone-free roof,…

China Flies 6-Ton Tiltrotor Cargo Drone R6000
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China Flies 6-Ton Tiltrotor Cargo Drone R6000

China has quietly crossed another unmanned aviation threshold, this time with something that looks less like a drone and more like a small aircraft that forgot to hire a pilot. On December 28, 2025, the Lanying R6000 completed its maiden flight at the Deyang Shifang test site in Sichuan Province, becoming the first known six…

Amazon Prime Air Delivery Drone MK30 in Oregon
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Amazon Prime Air Drone Delivery Operations Slashed in Italy – What Now?

Amazon has halted its plans to run its commercial Prime Air drone delivery operations in Italy, effectively shelving the project after what sounded, on paper, like a very promising start. According to an article from Reuters, Amazon made the layoff call after a “strategic review,” saying the broader business and regulatory environment in Italy does…

Inside Ukraine’s Drone Unit Redefining Naval Warfare
Ukraine

Inside Ukraine’s Drone Unit Redefining Naval Warfare

Ukraine did not defeat Russia’s Black Sea fleet with destroyers or submarines, it did it with remote controls, fiber optics, and engineers who learned faster than their enemy expected. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Ukraine effectively lost its navy, and when the full scale invasion began in 2022, the imbalance at sea looked permanent.…

Japan Is Quietly Doing What Many Countries Only Talk About With Medical Drones
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Japan Is Doing What Countries Only Talk About With Medical Drones

Medical drones are often discussed in glossy presentations and optimistic press releases, but Japan is one of the few countries where the conversation has moved past theory and reportedly into daily operations. While the global medical drone market is projected to grow from roughly 787 million dollars in 2024 to nearly 2.8 billion by 2032,…

China Floods Russia With 328,000 Miles of Drone Cable While Sending Ukraine Just 72—Fueling Moscow’s Battlefield Edge
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Blue UAS Architects Predict 2026 Drone Attack, Highlight Pentagon’s Mass Production Gap

The two officials who built the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and helped create the Blue UAS framework are warning that a drone attack on US soil is coming in 2026. Their analysis exposes a fundamental tension in American drone policy: the same security-first approach that justified expensive domestic alternatives may have slowed the mass production…

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