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Greece Scales Its Wildfire Drone Grid To 100+ Bases For 2026, A Year After Doubling Its Fleet
Greece will run more than 100 drone surveillance bases and three mobile command centers carrying thermal cameras across the country during the 2026 wildfire season, its largest drone deployment yet for fire detection. Government officials laid out the plan as…
FBI’s Chris Raia Says Battlefield Drones Will Reach America, But The Hardware He Fears Isn’t What Washington Banned
FBI Deputy Director Chris Raia told Fox News Digital it is “only a matter of time” before the kind of drone attacks seen on battlefields in Ukraine and the Middle East reach the United States, and he framed a lone…
NASA Langley Flew Donated Kidneys 7.5 Miles By Drone, And The Aircraft It Chose Says Everything
NASA researchers in Hampton, Virginia, put two human kidneys on a heavy-lift drone and flew them in 7.5-mile loops beyond the operator’s line of sight, then biopsied the organs to check for damage. They found none. The June 5 flights…
Skydio’s Weapons Reversal, a DJI Avata 2 Police Disarm, and the World Cup Drone Crackdown
Welcome to your weekly US news update. I have three stories for you this week. The Skydio CEO walks back their no-weapon pledge, which is an interesting one. A Sacramento sheriff uses a DJI Avata 2 to disarm a suspect,…
St Paul Police Logged 472 DFR Flights in Four Weeks
The St Paul Police Department’s new dock-based Drone as First Responder program flew 472 missions in its first four weeks, already passing the 436 patrol-drone flights the department logged in all of 2025. The three rooftop Skydio X10 drones went…
Irvine Police Drone Catches Shoplifter in Truck Bed
The Irvine Police Department’s Drone as First Responder program ended a Walmart shoplifting case the same way it ends most calls these days, with the suspect on the ground and an aircraft watching from above. Officers arrested Guillermo Hazael Martinez…
Drone Smuggling Ring Hit 10 Prisons, DOJ Charges
A federal grand jury in Georgia indicted twelve people for running drones over the walls of ten federal prisons in eight states, dropping drugs, cell phones, and saw blades at least 38 times. Prosecutors call it the largest federal case…
Drone Nerds Adds RigiTech Eiger for 62-Mile Delivery
XTI Aerospace’s Drone Nerds division added the RigiTech Eiger, a long-range delivery drone rated for 62 miles (100 km) per mission, to its enterprise portfolio. The Swiss-built aircraft takes off vertically, flies like a fixed-wing plane, and needs no runway.…
Anduril Eyes Nissan’s Oppama Plant to Mass-Produce Japanese Drones, Turning a Car Factory Into a Weapons Line
Anduril Industries is in talks to buy Nissan’s Oppama assembly plant in Yokosuka, Japan, and convert the 64-year-old car factory into a production site for military drones. Reuters broke the story on June 25, 2026, citing three people familiar with…
Walmart and Wing Plan Drone Deliveries in Maricopa
Walmart is moving drone delivery into seven new markets, and Maricopa, Arizona is confirmed on the list. The company announced the expansion in early June 2026, naming Wing as its delivery partner for the greater Phoenix area push. No launch…
Saronic Corsair Apache Rescue Was Years in the Making
On June 8, 2026, an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and a Navy sea drone picked up the two surviving crew members within two hours. It was described afterward as an operational first. It…
Taiwan Civilians Learn Drones to Counter China
Pan Chien-chin had never piloted a drone before May 2026. The 48-year-old food company worker walked into a small classroom in Taipei, picked up a sub-100-gram Taiwanese-built quad, and spent the afternoon learning to fly it by hand and eye…