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These drones really are the cat’s meow, and occasionally the cow’s moo. Along the Jersey Shore, while most people worry about beach traffic and seagulls stealing fries, Michael Parziale is launching drones to bring missing pets home. Parziale, 64, a restaurant owner and FAA licensed drone pilot, has built an 18 drone rescue fleet through…
A Skydio X10 drone reached a potentially dangerous 911 call in Fairfax County, Virginia, in just 57 seconds, arriving before any patrol officer and fundamentally changing how police handled the situation. The call came in near Fair Oaks Mall, where a caller reported a man standing in a median armed with a bow and arrow.…
Wales is preparing to test a drone delivery system that could quietly change how blood reaches patients in emergencies. The Dragon’s Heart project will use specially commissioned aircraft to transport blood donations by air, replacing road journeys that currently take hours, as the BBC reports. Today, donated blood is processed in south Wales and moved…
Some drones announce themselves with noise, blinking lights, and shaky cellphone footage, others arrive like a thought you did not know you were having, quiet, inevitable, already there before you noticed. Saturday night over Venezuela, the RQ-170 Sentinel belonged firmly to the second category. At least one, and possibly two, of the U.S. Air Force’s…
I was genuinely excited when these 360° prop guards for the DJI Mini 5 Pro finally became available. After testing them extensively, I can tell you they’re unlike anything DJI has released before – but not entirely in the ways you might expect. Here’s what you need to know upfront: The full details come from…
We have been tracking the evolution of Russia’s Shahed drones since at least the invasion of Ukraine, and the latest development is the most significant tactical shift yet. Just five weeks after they strapped an R-60 air-to-air missile to a Shahed, they’ve done it again, this time with a MANPADS. This isn’t experimentation anymore. This…
It was clear that Trump’s tariffs were never going to stop DJI. Now one of the most influential voices in US-China tech competition is making the same argument in the Financial Times. Chris Miller, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist book “Chip War” that shaped Washington’s semiconductor policy, published an opinion piece this weekend analyzing why…
I’ve been tracking Florida’s disastrous DJI drone ban for over a year, and the bill is finally coming due. When we first reported on St. Cloud’s $890,000 Drone as a First Responder (DFR) program last month, the story was about the exorbitant cost of compliance. Now, new data shows the program is an operational success,…
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