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Durham Police DJI Drone Locates Wanted Suspect In Pickering Greenspace
A Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) drone operator located a suspect with outstanding warrants for violent offences in under 20 minutes on May 9, 2026, after the man fled a disturbance call in Pickering, Ontario and hid in a green…
Seminole Council Kills Walmart’s Pinellas Drone Hub In 4-3 Vote
The Seminole City Council voted 4-3 on May 12, 2026 to reject Walmart’s proposal for a Wing-operated drone delivery nest at the Walmart Supercenter at 10237 Bay Pines Blvd, blocking what would have been the company’s first launch site in…
Russia’s Geran-4 Jet Drone Was Built To Beat Ukraine’s $2,000 Interceptors, GUR Says
Russia has started flying a new jet-powered attack drone, the Geran-4, and Ukrainian intelligence says the reason is blunt: the cheap interceptor drones Kyiv has been throwing at Russian Shaheds got good enough to force a redesign. Ukraine’s Main Directorate…
Pentagon’s $500 Million Counter-Drone Deal Turns Ukraine’s Cheap-Interceptor Math Into U.S. Doctrine
The Pentagon has awarded Perennial Autonomy a three-year contract worth up to $500 million for drone-killing interceptors, the largest single counter-unmanned-aircraft deal the U.S. military has signed. Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Defense Department organization that tests and buys…
LOC8 Plus Skydio Run Coconino’s AI Search Engine
The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office in Flagstaff, Arizona is using the latest AI-capable Skydio drones with the LOC8 G2 image-analysis platform to compress search and rescue photo review from thousands of drone images down to about twenty per mission. The…
Vanderbilt’s Campus DFR Goes Live With Skydio X10
Vanderbilt University Public Safety has launched a drone first-responder program for its Nashville campus, with installation and personnel training completed in April 2026 and initial operations conducted during Commencement week. The fleet is built on Skydio X10 platforms, equipped with…
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…
One Drone Empties a NATO Capital
On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, Lithuania closed the airspace over Vilnius International Airport at 10:00 AM local time. Twenty minutes later, every cell phone in the capital pinged with a message ordering residents into shelters. The trigger was a single…
Autel Fights Back Against the FCC, Michigan Drone Bills Stall, and a Thermal Drone Saves a Life
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. I have three stories for you this week: Autel is fighting back against the FCC’s Covered List, the Michigan House passed two drone procurement bills while stalling on airspace restrictions, and a drones-for-good…
Detroit’s ESSPI Joins Blueflite-Munson Drone Trials
Two Detroit-area startups are deepening a partnership that aims to scale medical drone deliveries at Munson Healthcare, the eight-hospital system serving 29 counties in northern Michigan, according to Crain’s Detroit Business reporting on May 20, 2026. Blueflite, the Brighton-based drone…
DJI Responds To Ontario Ban, Calls Decision Country-Of-Origin Move Without Proven Evidence
DJI is pushing back on Ontario’s May 20 decision to ban Chinese-made drones for sensitive Ontario Provincial Police operations and to phase out broader provincial government use, calling the move a country-of-origin decision unsupported by published evidence. In a statement,…
Ukraine’s 5th Assault Brigade Trades $2,000 Sting Drones For $50,000 Russian Shaheds On Camera
Ukraine’s 5th Assault Brigade is destroying Russian Shahed-type attack drones with the domestically produced Sting interceptor, a 3D-printed quadcopter that costs between 4 and 10 percent of what its target costs to build. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty published a video…