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A woman passed counterfeit bills at three businesses on Cerrillos Road. Instead of sending a patrol officer to drive the corridor looking for her, Santa Fe police clicked a mouse and put a Skydio X10 in the air, as Santa Fe New Mexican reported. Two minutes after launch, the drone was hovering above the intersection…
The kill zone on Ukraine’s eastern front has pushed out to roughly 15 kilometers from the line of contact. At that distance, sending infantry forward isn’t a tactical decision anymore — it’s a casualty guarantee. Ukraine’s answer, confirmed this week in a BBC report by Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko titled “Armed robots take to the…
Fairfax County, Virginia is not testing the waters on Drone as First Responder. The numbers from their first 100 missions make the case better than any press release could. Drones arrived on scene first in 71 of those 100 calls. Average response time: 83 seconds. In a county that sits inside the most restricted airspace…
The debris from the Iranian drone that struck RAF Akrotiri on March 2, 2026, is doing more than revealing a gap in Britain’s air defenses. A specific component recovered from the wreckage — a Russian-made Kometa satellite navigation system — confirms what intelligence analysts and Ukrainian forensic teams have been building a case for since…
The ask is direct: $650,000, two robotic dogs, two high-risk units. The Wichita Police Department brought the request to the Wichita City Council on March 3, 2026, with one quadruped robot earmarked for the SWAT team and a second for the bomb squad. What separates these from the robots WPD already operates is mobility, specifically…
Warren, Michigan did not test the waters. When the city decided to launch a Drone as First Responder program, it built one that covers both police and fire response simultaneously, funded by a millage voters passed in November, and it went fully operational on March 5. It is the first program of its kind in…
The UK dispatches the 12th Regiment Royal Artillery to the Middle East, leveraging battlefield experience from Ukraine to defend against Iranian Shahed drone threats.
The US military has deployed LUCAS (Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) in active Gulf operations, a drone reverse-engineered from Iran's Shahed-136 and priced at approximately $35,000 per unit.
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