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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…
ACSL is actively promoting SAMO, its dual optical-thermal swappable payload for the SOTEN drone, as the Japan-made platform pushes deeper into U.S. public safety and inspection markets. Built around Teledyne FLIR’s Hadron 640R module, SAMO pairs a 64-megapixel visible camera with a 640×512 radiometric Boson thermal sensor — all in an NDAA-compliant, ITAR-free package. Teledyne…
Seven months after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a reverse-engineered Iranian drone at a Pentagon event and called it America’s answer to the Shahed-136, that drone flew in combat. In the early hours of February 28, 2026, the U.S. military confirmed the first combat use of the Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS)…
Amazon is bringing its Prime Air drone delivery service to Chicago’s south suburbs this summer, and the company wants to introduce itself to the neighbors first. As Patch reports, a free community meet-and-greet is scheduled for Monday, March 2 at the Tinley Park Convention Center, where residents can see a static MK30 drone up close…
Amazon is bringing drone delivery to the Chicago area, and this time it is not a pilot program tucked away in the desert. Amazon plans to launch its Prime Air service from two major fulfillment centers in the south suburbs of Chicago, specifically in Markham and Matteson, later this year, as NBC 5 Chigago reports.…
NOPD seeks $740,000 for a Drone-as-First-Responder program with 24/7 docking stations. Privacy groups raise concerns as neighboring JPSO's fleet logs 60 arrests.
The photo shows a Skydio drone hovering over a dock outside the Sterling Heights Police Department. It’s a familiar sight in 2026, but not in Michigan, where automated drone response has been slow to take hold despite the state’s heavy investment in drone infrastructure. That changes this spring when Sterling Heights becomes one of the…
The Town of Gilbert, Arizona is quietly building one of the more serious Drone as First Responder programs in the Southwest, with its Police and Fire departments jointly testing autonomous drone deployments to improve emergency response times, as reported by The Gilbert Sun News. At a recent town council retreat, Assistant Police Chief Jim Bisceglie…
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