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World Cup Drone TFRs Get DHS Authorization Path, Moab Helicopter Dodges Drone, And AirData Teams Up With LeoSight
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. First up, the FAA adds a new DHS authorization path for World Cup NOTAMs. A firefighting helicopter in Utah dodges an unauthorized drone. And AirData…
Wild Drones Race In Truskavets Rewards Ukraine’s Slowest Pilot
A Ukrainian sergeant won his country’s “Wild Drones” military flying competition by piloting as slowly and carefully as possible, taking 11 minutes to finish a course built for a five-minute sprint while faster rivals collided and crashed around him. Sgt.…
Handala Claims an FBI Drone Hack and a World Cup Threat. The Proof Fell Apart Fast.
An Iran-linked hacker group called Handala claims it breached FBI first-person view (FPV) drones and used that access to threaten teams at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which opened June 11 across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The SITE…
Vancouver Police Launch Canada’s First Dock DFR
Vancouver just became the first city in Canada to put police drones on rooftops, ready to launch the second a 911 call lands. The Vancouver Police Department is rolling out six Skydio X10 aircraft in docked Drone as First Responder…
Buena Park Drone Finds Theft Suspect Hiding in Shed
A shoplifting run at a Buena Park Kohl’s ended with two people in custody on June 9, and the deciding factor never touched the ground. When one suspect bolted on foot and folded himself into a stranger’s backyard shed, he…
Phoenix Joins Walmart’s Drone Delivery Expansion
Phoenix is on the list. Wing and Walmart named seven new metropolitan areas this week for the largest drone delivery network in the country, and Arizona’s capital sits among them. The rollout is phased, with operations across the new markets…
DJI Police Drone Found a Dog Stranded on an Oregon Cliff
A dog got spooked on a hike at Ecola State Park, bolted, and vanished for nearly two hours. When searchers finally spotted it, the animal was stranded about 100 feet down a steep Oregon cliff, in a spot no person…
Connecticut Mystery Drones Land On Norwich Rooftops As Police Investigate And World Cup Airspace Tightens
Residents of Norwich, Connecticut say large drones have been hovering just above their homes after dark, shining a spotlight into a backyard and, in one account, landing on a rooftop. Norwich police opened an investigation after an officer watched one…
FCC Clears VEX AIR Classroom Drone From Covered List As Exemption Tally Reaches Eleven Manufacturers, DJI Stays Blocked
The FCC‘s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau on June 4 exempted the VEX AIR Uncrewed Aircraft System from the Covered List, after the Department of War granted Innovation First International a Conditional Approval that runs through December 31, 2026.…
Drones Are Lighting China’s Fields for Night Harvest
Picture a wheat field in Anhui Province at midnight, lit up like a stadium. The light isn’t coming from towers on the ground. It’s hanging in the air, bolted to a drone that hasn’t landed in hours and doesn’t plan…
Potensic Atom 3 First Flight: New Sub-249 Gram Drone Flies Like A DJI Mini For A Lot Less Money
Potensic released the Atom 3 today, and we have already put it in the air. The new sub-249 gram drone pairs a 1 50-megapixel camera with a claimed 16 km (9.9 miles) of video transmission and up to 50 minutes…
DJI Matrice 4E Maps 29 Native Species Across 130 Hectares In Open-Source Flora Study
A surveyor running an environmental baseline study used a DJI Matrice 4E and free open-source software to identify, classify, and geolocate every individual plant of 29 native species across a 130-hectare site. Pablo Carranza shared the work in the Drone…