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Two B-52H Stratofortress bombers with LA tail codes taxiing on the flight line at Barksdale Air Force Base

Louisiana · FAA

Barksdale Indictment Alleges DJI Air 3 Flights After the Incursions

A man arrested in Michigan is charged with flying an unregistered DJI Air 3 around Barksdale AFB on March 22 to 26. One count carries up to three years.

Haye KestelooOct 243 min read

A gloved hand holds a plastic crow wrapped in black tape at night, with a gray quadcopter lying on wet leaves beside it.

Louisiana

Drone Meth Drop in a Fake Crow Earns Texas Woman 70 Months in Prison

A Texas woman got 70 months in a drone plot that sent a crow-shaped meth package to USP Pollock. A Florida man found at a nearby Airbnb got 10 years.

Haye KestelooOct 23

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 14

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

Louisiana

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