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Toronto Police Tracked Down CBC’s Rogue Test Drone Beside Hotel X Within Minutes
The Toronto Police Service tracked a drone flying over a no-fly zone near Toronto Stadium to its pilot several blocks away beside Hotel X, then sent ground officers to confront the operator, all in a staged exercise built and flown…
NATO Allies Move To Loosen The Trigger On Drones, Handing Its Top Commander New Powers Before The Ankara Summit
NATO countries want to give the alliance’s top military commander more freedom to shoot down drones by the time leaders meet in Ankara next month, after nine months of incursions that have caused damage and injuries while rattling politics across…
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.…
Stark Unveils Cascade and Gambit Drones Eight Months After Flunking Every Strike in Military Trials
Stark unveils Cascade and Gambit loitering munitions with fiber-optic guidance and a UK launcher deal, eight months after its Virtus failed every strike.
Schiebel’s S-300 Drone Joins Europe’s Sub Hunt
Europe just chose a helicopter drone to help hunt submarines, and it isn’t the small one Schiebel is famous for. The Austrian company’s heavy-lift Camcopter S-300 has been selected as the airborne platform for SWORD, a European Defence Fund project…
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation…
MaXon Systems Built the $3,500 Autonomous Drone That Kills Shaheds Without a Pilot
The Ukrainian interceptor drone that Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said automates 95 percent of the Shahed kill cycle now has a builder, a price, and a combat record. MaXon Systems, a Kyiv defense technology startup, made a fixed-wing interceptor that…
Anduril’s Brian Schimpf Spent Nine Years Warning of a Munitions Crisis. The Iran War Proved Him Right.
Brian Schimpf handed a reporter a three-pound tungsten warhead at a secretive West Texas test site, then watched an Anduril Bolt drone dive at 85 degrees toward hills the company would not let a photographer shoot. That scene opens a…
Echodyne Lands $490M Air Force Counter-Drone Deal as Ukraine’s Cheap Acoustics Spawn North American Rivals
The radar that can spot a quadcopter the size of a dinner plate at five kilometers is now wired into a $490 million U.S. Air Force counter-drone program. Echodyne, the Kirkland, Washington company behind the laptop-sized EchoShield radar, confirmed in…
The R7 Is A Chinese AI Drone-Killer You Can Buy In America. The FCC Says Hardware Like It Is Banned.
A Hong Kong seller is listing a Chinese-built autonomous interceptor drone on eBay for $6,999, shipping to U.S. addresses by UPS Ground, with payment plans starting around $336 a month. The listing, for a system called the R7 Portable AI…
Russia’s Yolka And A $6,999 eBay Drone-Killer: What The New York Post Got Right About The Threat, And Wrong
A New York Post opinion piece published June 4 argues that the cheap interceptor drones now shooting down attack drones over Ukraine and Russia represent an emerging threat to civilian aviation, and that copycat versions are already turning up on…
Hezbollah Imports Ukraine’s Fiber-Optic Drone Playbook, and Israel Has No Jammer for It
Hezbollah is now killing Israeli soldiers with the same fiber-optic FPV drones that reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine, and Israel’s main counter-drone tool, electronic jamming, does nothing to stop them. Since April 2026, drones guided by thin optical cables have…