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Adventure filmmaker Jeven Dovey destroyed a DJI Mavic 4 Pro on the second morning of a three-day overland shoot in California’s Eastern Sierras, flying in Sport mode with obstacle avoidance disabled when the drone hit a tree and tore the gimbal off the airframe. The crash, documented in a video published to his YouTube channel,…
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division launched a Textron Systems Aerosonde unmanned aircraft system during a Joint Readiness Training Center rotation at Fort Polk, Louisiana on April 9, 2026, as DVIDS reported. The deployment puts one of the Army’s leading tactical drone candidates into a realistic combat training environment alongside the service’s most storied light…
DJI revealed the Osmo Pocket 4 today, April 16, 2026, ending a leak cycle that started last September. The new gimbal camera keeps the 1-inch CMOS sensor from the Pocket 3 but pushes 4K recording up to 240 frames per second, doubling the previous model’s slow-motion ceiling. DJI priced the Standard Combo at £445/€499, with…
A Ukrainian company called PAWELL has figured out how to take battery cells designed for electric vehicles and stuff them into fixed-wing drones. The result: operational range jumped from roughly 19 miles to 122 miles on a single charge, as Euro Maidan Press reports. One of those upgraded drones has already destroyed a Russian Buk-M1…
A traffic safety drone helped Kingston Police find and rescue a person in distress on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Officers had limited information to work with, but the drone located the individual’s vehicle within an hour of deployment, leading to a swift rescue and hospital transport, as The Whig reported. The Kingston Police Service received…
Oakland County’s Board of Commissioners voted 13-4 on April 8 to approve a nine-month pilot program that puts Flock Safety drones in the hands of the county Sheriff’s Office, as M Live reports. The decision came over loud protests from residents who packed the meeting in Pontiac and warned of mass surveillance. Seven Flock drones…
For the first time in the war, Ukraine seized a Russian position without a single soldier stepping forward. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday that an enemy position had been taken “exclusively by unmanned platforms — ground systems and drones,” forcing Russian soldiers to surrender with zero Ukrainian casualties, according to Business Insider. That account…
This article is about two things that I really like: drones and guns. The U.S. Army just gave soldiers the simplest possible counter-drone tool: a bullet. Troops assigned to the XVIII Airborne Corps Signal Detachment conducted live-fire training with the 5.56mm L-variant Drone Round at Oak Grove Training Center in North Carolina on April 9,…
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