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The US Navy just put a laser weapon on an aircraft carrier for the first time. On October 5, 2025, a palletized AeroVironment LOCUST system detected, tracked, and destroyed multiple drones in a live-fire test aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, as reported by News Nation Now. The Navy sat on the news for 197…
Australia just unveiled a decade-long counter-drone push worth up to $7 billion AUD (about $5 billion USD), anchored by two Melbourne companies building hardware the Defence Industry Minister compared to Star Wars, as The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The initial $31 million AUD ($22 million USD) in contracts went to AIM Defence for a high-powered…
Security researcher Konrad Iturbe has identified the VooMax Breeze 8K drone selling on Amazon as a rebrand of a drone already tied to Fikaxo Technology Inc., one of the suspected DJI shell companies DroneXL reported on in September 2025. Iturbe, who runs the automated bot that scans FCC filings for DJI’s proprietary OcuSync frequency signatures,…
The U.S. Army opened Flightwerx on April 20, a new drone innovation facility in Daleville, Alabama, sitting right outside Fort Rucker. The site is built to train soldiers on unmanned systems, connect them with industry and academia, and feed the Army’s push to close a documented gap in small drone and FPV warfare, as The…
Skydio CEO Adam Bry confirms DJI tried to acquire the company in 2014. The rejected deal now anchors the American drone industry against Chinese competitors.
Skydio closed a $110 million Series F on Thursday at a $4.4 billion post-money valuation, with CEO Adam Bry framing the modest raise as the real headline. The San Mateo drone maker was oversubscribed. Existing investors wanted to put in substantially more. Bry turned most of them down. “The most significant fact in our Series…
Fifteen agricultural spray drones were stolen from a New Jersey location last month in what the FBI is treating as a sophisticated, possibly coordinated theft, according to reporting by national security journalists Jack Murphy and Sean D. Naylor at The High Side. The case is unsolved. Retired FBI agent Steve Lazarus told the outlet the…
DJI launched two new sub-249-gram camera drones today, the Lito X1 and Lito 1, aimed squarely at first-time pilots and entry-level creators at a price point that would have moved serious volume at Best Buy. Orders opened April 23, 2026 through store.dji.com and authorized retailers across Europe, the UK, and other international markets. The United…
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