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Germany's Helsing is bringing HX-2 strike-drone production to Martinsburg, West Virginia, with a $50 million plant designed to build more than 2,000 loitering munitions a month for the U.S. market.
Mykhailo Fedorov, the 35-year-old who built Ukraine's drone warfare machine and then ran the ministry that wielded it, was pushed out as defense minister after just six months in the post.
A Placer County Sheriff's drone searched inside a barn full of hay bales, located a domestic violence suspect wedged into the stack, and ended the standoff without deputies climbing blindly into a dangerous hiding place.
Palm Springs police used DJI thermal drones and Dock 3 launch stations to track a teen rider from above without triggering a dangerous street pursuit, turning a baited chase into a quiet arrest directed entirely from the air.
DJI has signed on as the New Zealand Rugby League's official technology partner for the 2026 season, putting its drones, Osmo cameras, and filmmaking gear into grassroots competitions and the World Cup campaigns of the Kiwis, Kiwi Ferns, and Wheel Kiwis.
BRINC has raised $125 million in a Motorola Solutions-led round that the Seattle company says will expand domestic manufacturing and help scale its vision of placing a 911 response drone on every police and fire station roof in the United States.
Duke Health researchers are dispatching AED-carrying drones to live 911 cardiac arrest calls in North Carolina, testing whether autonomous delivery can beat ambulances by the minutes that decide survival.
The FCC has proposed $25,000 fines against eight companies it suspects of selling rebranded DJI hardware in the United States after they ignored federal inquiries, escalating a case that could end in revoked equipment authorizations.
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