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Hundreds of drones lifted off above Charleston Harbor on Saturday night, retelling the Battle of Sullivan’s Island in light formations above the U.S. Custom House as part of the Revolutionary Skies celebration. The show capped a Carolina Day program organized by SC250 Charleston, the city’s coordinating body for South Carolina’s 250th anniversary commemorations, and ran…
A US pilot says he saw an Iranian "jellyfish" drone swarm before ejecting. US intelligence isn't convinced, and a Chinese missile is the likelier cause.
Formula 1 ran FPV drone footage as a headline feature of its Austrian Grand Prix broadcast on Sunday, June 28, 2026, and the standout sequence put viewers directly above the early on-track fight between Lewis Hamilton in the Ferrari and Max Verstappen in the Red Bull at the Red Bull Ring. The shots aired live…
Airbus and Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a memorandum of understanding on June 26 to develop an anti-submarine and maritime patrol version of the Eurodrone for the Japanese market. The deal is the first concrete export pull for a European medium-altitude long-endurance UAV that has not yet flown. Japan joined the broader Eurodrone program in November…
Cherry Valley Police Department in Illinois used a Skydio X10 with thermal imaging, a spotlight, and a speaker payload to locate and guide three stranded people out of the Kishwaukee River on the night of June 25, 2026. All three were unhurt when the Cherry Valley Fire Protection District took them to safety. The Winnebago…
At a GNC nutritional supplement warehouse in Whitestown, Indiana, four small drones fly overhead every day. They count more than 2,000 plastic-wrapped pallets nobody wanted to count by hand. The aircraft come from Corvus Robotics, a startup building autonomous indoor flyers tuned for warehouse inventory work. Since GNC brought the program online two years ago,…
A man wanted on felony warrants tried to vanish into a tall grass field in Eldora, Iowa on June 23, and a police drone with a thermal camera put him on the ground within minutes. The Eldora Police Department, the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office, and the State Center Police Department served a search warrant at…
The Aerial Evolution Association of Canada named Medicine Hat, Alberta as the host city for the 18th annual AEAC Student Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Competition, scheduled for May 14 to 16, 2027. The choice keeps the country’s top university and college drone competition in the same southeast Alberta corridor that hosted the 2025 edition. The 2027…
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