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The DJI Air 4 has surfaced inside a Chinese drone flight-reporting app, sitting in a dropdown menu of selectable aircraft alongside the already-shipping Insta360 Antigravity A1. The screenshot, posted Monday by drone leaker Igor Bogdanov on X with the caption “Caught…Air 4,” is the first known appearance of the unannounced model in a regulatory-adjacent piece…
The Federal Communications Commission‘s Office of Engineering and Technology released Public Notice DA 26-454 on Friday, May 8, 2026, extending its waiver for software and firmware updates to previously authorized foreign-made drones, UAS critical components, and consumer routers until at least January 1, 2029. The earlier deadlines were January 1, 2027 for drones and March…
Germany’s largest defense contractor and its biggest mobile carrier announced a joint drone defense shield on Monday, combining Rheinmetall’s air defense hardware with Deutsche Telekom’s cellular network and radio frequency sensors to protect cities and critical infrastructure. The companies will present the system at the AFCEA security trade show in Bonn this week. The partnership…
DJI has set the date and venue for the Osmo Pocket 4P reveal. The company posted matching teasers Monday from its global and Japan X accounts confirming a Cannes, France event on May 14, 2026 at 17:00 CEST. That date lands inside the 79th Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 12 to May 23.…
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune has spent three weeks training pilots on first-person-view attack drones, with deployment imminent and adversaries already capable of producing millions of similar systems each year. The New York Times documented the training in a video published May 10, 2026, showing Marines with 3rd Battalion,…
FBI charges former University of Michigan visiting scholar Chuan Wang with hiding his role as Tianxun CTO building drones for the Chinese military.
Laredo Police Department officers arrested a 34-year-old man after he burglarized two vehicles early on May 6, with the RAVEN program drones playing a key role in locating him while he hid in nearby brush, as reported by LMT Online. The incident highlights the growing use of small tactical drones for rapid suspect apprehension in…
Helsing is set to raise $1.2 billion at an $18 billion valuation in a Dragoneer-led round, cementing its lead among European defense AI firms.
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