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Florida-based Unusual Machines has secured its largest Pentagon contract to date, winning a deal to supply 3,500 drone motors and components to the U.S. Army—just months after Donald Trump Jr. joined the company as an adviser with a $4 million stake. The Financial Times first reported the contract award on Friday, reigniting conflict-of-interest concerns that…
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. In my latest video, we have three stories for you this week. A Florida senator is pushing for an emergency retroactive ban on certain DJI and Autel drones. Not good. And then we also have a new drone payload that can physically restrain suspects from the air. And…
Florida Senator Rick Scott pushes FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to weaponize next week's regulatory vote against Chinese drone makers DJI and Autel
The beaches of Sunny Isles, Florida, are now under the watchful eye of a new kind of patrol officer—one that flies. The city's police department
In one of the largest and most ambitious counter-drone experiments ever conducted on US soil, the US Air Force has kicked off Falcon Peak
The Hollywood Fire Rescue & Beach Safety department has officially launched a new drone program designed to drop life-saving flotation devices
The BCSO has successfully used a Teledyne FLIR SIRAS drone to deliver a water-activated rescue tube to a swimmer in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Osprey MK III is a pint-sized testbed for a revolutionary idea: teaching drones to navigate in the dark, without any GPS at all.
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