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The main entrance of the United States Penitentiary at Pollock, Louisiana, with a flagpole in a landscaped circular drive.

Louisiana · Louisiana

Prison Drone Flew $31,000 of Meth Back to Its Launch Site

A Grant Parish deputy found the drone on the ground with the meth still strapped to it. A dying battery had flown it home, and two Texas men are in jail.

Haye KestelooSep 145 min read

Amazon

Amazon Drone Lands Itself Beside a Baton Rouge Road, Two Months In

An Amazon MK30 set itself down on a Florida Boulevard grass strip Friday, props intact, as storms crossed the parish. Amazon has not said why.

Haye KestelooSep 12

Amazon

Amazon Says Quieter Than a Truck. Its FAA Filing Says 92 Decibels

Amazon told Baton Rouge its delivery drones beat an idling truck. Its own FAA noise filing puts the delivery hover at 92.1 decibels.

Haye KestelooSep 9

Auterion drone swarm software coordinating multiple uncrewed aircraft as a single AI-guided strike formation

Counter-Drone

Northcom Cannot Stop A Homeland Drone Swarm. Its Deputy Commander Said So.

Asked if he could defeat a drone swarm launched inside U.S. borders, Northcom's deputy commander said no. Nine days earlier, five autonomous drones hit a tank in Maryland.

Haye KestelooAug 19

Ruston Police Department's drone Patsy supported the department's first drone-assisted arrest in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

DFR

Ruston Police Drone Patsy Makes Its First Arrest

Ruston Police Department says its BRINC drone Patsy helped officers identify and arrest a fraud suspect in the agency’s first drone-assisted arrest, underscoring how Drone as First Responder programs are spreading into smaller U.S. departments.

Rafael SuárezJul 20

Drone as First Responder

Saronic Corsair Apache Rescue Was Years in the Making

On June 8, 2026, an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and a Navy sea drone picked up the two surviving crew members within two hours. It was described afterward as an operational first. It was not an accident. “You can rehearse medevac scenarios during exercises,” a U.S. military official…

Rafael SuárezJun 25

Brinc

Skydio, BRINC and a Robot Dog Join Louisiana Patrols

The West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office is adding four Skydio X10 drones and a four-legged Boston Dynamics

Rafael SuárezMay 28

Amazon

Amazon Wants Idaho Sky Next: Nampa Vote May 26

Amazon Prime Air has filed for a conditional use permit in Nampa, Idaho, asking the city to approve a 21,000-square-foot drone delivery center at its existing fulfillment site on East Franklin Road. The Nampa Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to vote on the application on May 26, 2026. If approved, MK30 drones would serve…

Rafael SuárezMay 23

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