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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.
Northrop Grumman has successfully flown the XRQ-73 SHEPARD, a hybrid-electric flying-wing UAS developed for DARPA’s Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration program. The milestone flight took place in April 2026 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, after previous delays, as reported by Aviation Week. This experimental Group 3 UAS represents a significant step in testing…
A leaked GRU document obtained by The Economist proposes supplying Iran with 5,000 fiber-optic drones for use against U.S. forces in the Gulf.
DJI has officially confirmed the Osmo Pocket 4 Pro is coming, and based on everything that has leaked so far, this is not an incremental update. The Pocket 4P, as DJI is calling it on Chinese social media, is a dual-camera pocket gimbal that borrows directly from the DNA of DJI’s best drone optics and…
The U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division is training its Soldiers to fight in a world where a drone flying overhead and a jammer carried on your back are just as important as the rifle in your hands, as ARMY.MIL reported. During Raider Density, an intensive training event running April through May at Fort Stewart, Georgia,…
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