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St Paul Police Logged 472 Dfr Flights In Four Weeks

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

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

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

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.…

Taiwan Civilians Learn Drones To Counter China

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…