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An NYPD drone spotted six people riding atop a moving B train in Brooklyn, tracked them from the air, and guided officers to arrest five teenagers. Police also recovered six stolen MTA keys from a 14-year-old suspect.
Wonder and Zipline announced a partnership this week that will put restaurant meals from Bobby Flay, Marcus Samuelsson, Tejas Barbecue, and Di Fara Pizza into the Texas sky. Drone deliveries start in January 2027 in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, the same corridor where DroneXL has tracked Zipline’s Walmart expansion city by city since 2025. Wonder…
An NYPD drone fell out of the sky and caught fire in DUMBO on Tuesday night, June 23, coming down at 1 Water Street near the entrance to the FIFA World Cup Fan Zone in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The lithium-ion battery ignited on impact. Firefighters put it out. Nobody was hurt. But the aircraft dropped…
A JetBlue pilot approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport reported hitting a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on Monday, June 29, and within hours the story was everywhere: a plane, a drone, a collision over New York. Then the aircraft landed, mechanics inspected it, and they found no damage. None. No dented leading edge, no…
A JetBlue pilot told air traffic controllers his Airbus A321 collided with a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 29. Flight 948 had flown overnight from Las Vegas and landed safely six minutes later at 7:21 a.m. A post-flight inspection…
On Decoder, Skydio CEO Adam Bry walked back his company's posted no-weapons pledge, called drawing red lines "dangerously misguided," and conceded China still builds better drones.
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer called SkyFall has flown artificial intelligence into the one job interceptor pilots could never do fast enough: spotting an incoming Shahed before the human eye registers it. At a launch site in a central Ukrainian pine forest, the company demonstrated its P1-SUN interceptor against a lightweight replica of the Iranian-designed attack…
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. Zakhar Korol, 37, of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura,” outlasted the field at a…
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