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Poland Builds Its Own Shahed. They're Calling It PLargonia.
Ukraine

Poland Builds Its Own Shahed. They’re Calling It PLargonia.

Warsaw watched what Iranian drones did to Ukrainian cities and decided it needed one of its own. The PLargonia is almost ready. A Delta-Wing Loitering Munition Built in Poland Poland’s Air Force Institute of Technology and Autonomous Systems Center, known as OSA, have jointly developed a loitering munition that looks remarkably familiar, as Next Gen…

Ukrainian Students Race Combat Drones in Kyiv. The Winner Flew It in 36 Seconds.
Ukraine

Ukrainian Students Race Combat Drones in Kyiv. The Winner Flew It in 36 Seconds.

There are drone racing tournaments, and then there is this one. The final of Kyiv Drone Racing took place in a hangar at the National Aviation University Kyiv Aviation Institute, with more than 30 teams and roughly 100 participants competing on drones built by one of Ukraine’s most consequential defense technology companies, as The Defender…

Rosemount PD Joins Drone Network Logging 1,300 Flights a Year
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Rosemount PD Joins Drone Network Logging 1,300 Flights a Year

Rosemount, Minnesota, is the latest American community to put a drone in the hands of its police department, and the numbers surrounding its launch say more about the broader trend than any single agency announcement. The Rosemount Police Department launched its Unmanned Aerial System program under a policy adopted January 1, 2026. Nine officers have…

Window-Washing Drone Startup Lucid Bots Raises $20M
United States

Window-Washing Drone Startup Lucid Bots Raises $20M

Lucid Bots Drones just closed a $20 million Series B to keep up with demand it says it can’t fulfill fast enough. For a company that spent five years selling its first 100 robots, that’s a different kind of problem. The Charlotte, North Carolina company makes the Sherpa cleaning drone and the Lavo ground robot,…

Safer Skies Act Gives Amusement Parks New Counter-Drone Tools — But the FAA's Section 2209 Rule Is the Real Prize - Trespassing warning after illegal drone flight over Disney World
United States

Disney World Has a No-Fly Zone. Now It Has Teeth.

Theme parks like Disney World across the U.S. spent years watching unauthorized drones buzz their crowds with essentially no legal way to stop them. That finally changed in December 2025, and the industry is still figuring out what it means, as reported by Facilities Dive. The Safer Skies Act, embedded in Sections 8601 through 8607…

Army Launches Altius-700 Drone From an Apache in Under Six Months
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Army Launches Altius-700 Drone From an Apache in Under Six Months

The U.S. Army just demonstrated something that sounds straightforward until you think about what it actually required: launching an autonomous strike drone from a moving Apache attack helicopter in less than six months from the day someone wrote the requirement down. The demonstration took place on February 26 at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, using…

DJI Mini 4 Pro Fly More Combo Hits Record-Low Price Of $799 on Amazon
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Vancouver Transit Police Deploy Drones to Secure FIFA World Cup 2026

The Metro Vancouver Transit Police are getting drones, and they’re doing it before the biggest sporting event this region has ever hosted. The agency confirmed in a March 25 report to the TransLink board that nine officers are already trained and three different drones are ready to fly, as reported by Coast Reporter. The target…

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