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A Lakewood Police Department drone operation on Colfax Avenue resulted in five arrests last Saturday after agents used a Skydio X10 to watch three separate hand-to-hand drug transactions in real time before moving in on the suspects. The operation was straightforward in the best possible way. Agents patrolling the intersection of Colfax and Teller observed…
Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, announced on Monday that it will expand residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company framed the move as a “homecoming,” since Wing was founded in the Bay Area in 2012 as a project inside Google’s X, the Moonshot Factory. It is…
Zipline has closed an additional $200 million on top of its Series H round, pushing the total to $800 million, TechCrunch reported. The new capital includes participation from crypto investment firm Paradigm and arrives ahead of schedule. “Things have moved a little faster than we expected,” CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton said in a video posted…
Swarmer (SWMR) shares surged 950% following its IPO, driven by its AI software's 100,000+ combat missions in Ukraine. Explore the financials, the Erik Prince connection, and the future of autonomous drone swarms.
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.
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