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The Army’s AMP-HEL counter-drone laser passed a joint FAA safety evaluation at White Sands Missile Range on March 7-8, 2026 — and an unplanned commercial aircraft triggered the automated shutoff that made the strongest case for the system’s safety. Here’s what the test revealed and what it means for U.S. airspace.
East Texas utility SWEPCO has a new way to find the branches that will kill your power before they actually do it. The drones are already flying. The Problem With Trees and Power Lines Vegetation management is the unglamorous backbone of electric utility reliability. Branches grow. Trees lean. Storms push limbs into conductors and the…
Six hundred students. A fake bioterrorism attack. A simulated explosion. And drones flying overhead until midnight for ten straight days. This is how America trains its next generation of emergency responders. A City Built to Burn, Flood, and Collapse Disaster City is not a metaphor. It is a real 52-acre facility in College Station, Texas,…
A breakdown of Bloomberg’s report on the Trump family’s $750 million drone portfolio. We analyze the reverse mergers of Powerus and Xtend, the Unusual Machines Army contract, and what the Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance initiative means for these investments.
Discover how insurance companies are using high-resolution drone imagery and AI to inspect roofs without homeowner consent. Learn about the shift from manual inspections to aerial data, the potential for AI errors, and what your rights are if your coverage is threatened by a "hidden" inspection.
It was just after 11 a.m. at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center in Montrose when a DJI Neo appeared above the line of voters waiting outside
Two people were trapped nearly 1,000 feet in the air in Texas. The rescue took four hours, a team of extraordinary firefighters, and one drone doing a job nobody talked about, as KLTV reports. 925 Feet Up and Nowhere to Go It started as a Saturday morning balloon flight in Gregg County, Texas. It ended…
A U.S. military high-energy laser destroyed a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) surveillance drone near Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday, February 26. The reason: CBP never told the Pentagon it was flying one. The military saw an unidentified aircraft in military airspace, identified it as a threat, and fired. Cost to taxpayers: an estimated…
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