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The Federal Aviation Administration will modify all of its FIFA World Cup 2026 drone NOTAMs to add an authorization pathway through the Department of Homeland Security, starting with the Texas locations. The change comes less than two weeks after the tournament’s sweeping flight restrictions took effect on June 1 and began grounding commercial drone operators…
A firefighting helicopter working a brush fire near Moab, Utah encountered an unauthorized drone over the active fire area, and state fire managers responded by publishing photos of what past drone strikes have done to aircraft. The warning lands 17 months after a DJI Mini punched a hole in a Super Scooper over the Palisades…
Stark unveils Cascade and Gambit loitering munitions with fiber-optic guidance and a UK launcher deal, eight months after its Virtus failed every strike.
Europe just chose a helicopter drone to help hunt submarines, and it isn’t the small one Schiebel is famous for. The Austrian company’s heavy-lift Camcopter S-300 has been selected as the airborne platform for SWORD, a European Defence Fund project building a new way to find and kill submerged threats from a safe distance. It’s…
Amazon just launched Prime in South Africa at 59 rand a month, and shoppers got same-day delivery, discounts, even cloud gaming. What they didn’t get is a single delivery drone. Prime Air isn’t coming, and when Amazon’s own regional boss was asked about it, he had nothing to say. The silence is the story, because…
Ukrainian company Martyn Tech just unveiled a heavy bomber quadcopter called Adis, and its headline feature isn’t the payload. It’s the satellite link. By controlling the drone through a satellite rather than a direct radio signal, the operator no longer has to sit near the front line to fly a mission. Hey, DJI folks, what…
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
MaXon Systems built a $3,500 fixed-wing drone that launches, flies, and kills Shaheds autonomously. First combat use confirmed in Kharkiv on June 8.
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