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Four German officials stand behind a DLR lectern marking the Drone Security Technology Center at the opening ceremony in Cochstedt

Leipzig Drone Bomb

Germany Opens Counter-Drone Test Center After Leipzig Explosive Drone

Germany opened the DLR Drone Security Technology Center at Cochstedt airport two weeks after an explosives-laden drone struck a Ukrainian An-124 at Leipzig.

Haye KestelooAug 19

RESEARCH

Duke University Drone Tracks Another Drone Using Only Its Sound

Duke's SonicFly follower quadcopter chases a leader drone with a 10-gram microphone array, no GPS sharing, no radio link, and no camera.

Haye KestelooAug 18

AUVSI President and CEO Michael Robbins speaking on stage at XPONENTIAL Detroit in May 2026.

LOBBYING

AUVSI's Robbins Exits For SIA As The Drone Ban He Backed Rolls On

Michael Robbins leaves AUVSI September 30 to run the Semiconductor Industry Association, the industry he spent three years telling drone makers to copy.

Haye KestelooAug 18

Helsing HX-2 strike drone with X-shaped wings backlit by white studio light bars in a dark hangar

Japan

Helsing Pitches Japan A Strike Drone With A Contested Combat Record

Rakuten is brokering Helsing's sale of HX-2 strike drones to Japan's army, and the aircraft under test is the same one a German defense ministry document said struggled to launch in Ukraine.

Haye KestelooAug 18

El Paso Police Department drone-as-first-responder operations along the Texas border

Counter-Drone

Texas Wants Counter-Drone Power. Only 61 US Officers Are Certified.

El Paso police told Texas senators they have tracked 1,776 cross-border cartel drone incursions and need more authority to respond. Congress already granted that authority in December. The constraint is a single FBI school in Alabama that has certified 61 officers nationwide.

Haye KestelooAug 18

Quadcopter delivery drone with a red-and-yellow chevron-marked cargo box flying against an overcast sky

WHOLE BLOOD

Hillsborough County Hasn't Voted on Its Blood Drone Program Yet

Hillsborough County commissioners decide September 2 whether the nation's first EMS whole blood drone program flies in October. The wire coverage already calls it launched.

Haye KestelooAug 18

Prime Air

Amazon Drone Crash In Darlington Draws AAIB Case Before December CAA Verdict

An Amazon MK30 crashed into a Darlington garden on July 29. The AAIB opened an accident inquiry as the CAA weighs the trial's December renewal.

Haye KestelooAug 17

Zipline delivery drone hovering above a wooden front porch after lowering an Uber Eats bag to the deck

DRONE DELIVERY

Uber and Zipline Target 1 Million Drone Deliveries a Day, 230 Times Today's Rate

Uber and Zipline aim for one million drone deliveries a day by the end of 2029, roughly 230 times Zipline's current global rate, while Part 108 sits unpublished at OIRA.

Haye KestelooAug 17

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