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Amazon Prime Air Quits Drone Alliance Over Safety
Amazon’s Prime Air division has walked away from the Commercial Drone Alliance, and the reason is blunt: a fundamental disagreement over whether detect-and-avoid technology should be mandatory across the national airspace. The split went public March 12 after Reuters obtained…
The $20,000 Drone Threat: Why Our Billion-Dollar Bases Are No Longer Safe
The Washington Post opinion piece published March 16 by Nolan Peterson — a former U.S. Air Force Special Operations pilot and Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow — cuts through the usual strategic commentary with something more uncomfortable: a personal account…
Drone strike on U.S. diplomatic facility in Baghdad Proves that One Mistake Is All It Takes
A drone strike on a major U.S. diplomatic facility occurred on March 10, 2026, during which multiple drones of unknown origin were launched at the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center. Currently, no injuries have been reported, and all personnel were accounted…
FBI’s Iran Drone Warning to California Was Built on a Single Unverified Tip — Here’s What the Bulletin Actually Said
In late February, the FBI quietly distributed a security bulletin to California law enforcement warning that Iran had “allegedly aspired” to launch a surprise drone attack on West Coast targets from an unidentified vessel off the coast. The bulletin sat…
Ottawa’s $900M Bet: Can Canada Lead the Western Drone Race?
Canada’s defense drone push just got a serious price tag. The Government of Canada will spend more than CA$900 million (roughly US$660 million, at approximately 0.73 USD/CAD) on unmanned systems, aerospace technology, and dual-use defense programs, with a dedicated Drone…
Skydio R10 Heads to the DEA. And the Drone World Has Opinions.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is buying Skydio R10 indoor drones. The aircraft is genuinely impressive. The procurement process is a different story. The Drone That Goes Where Officers Cannot The Skydio R10 is the first American-made drone purpose-built for indoor…
Ukraine’s $2,500 Drone Just Became America’s Most Urgent Defense Import
The Sting interceptor drone costs roughly $2,500. A single Patriot PAC-3 missile costs over $3 million. That economic gap — a ratio I’ve been covering since Wild Hornets first started mass-producing the Sting in late 2024 — just became the…
Drones Hit Amazon’s Datacenters. The Cloud Just Got a Lot More Fragile.
Three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East are offline. Two were directly struck by drones in the UAE. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike close enough to knock it out, as The Register reported.…
Europe Picked Airbus to Build Its Next Military Drone. Here Is What That Means.
Europe has a drone problem. Not a shortage of them. A shortage of the right ones, built by Europeans, owned by Europeans, and answerable to European defense priorities rather than foreign supply chains. The M2UAS project is one piece of…
Russian Kometa Navigation System Found in Iranian Drone That Hit RAF Akrotiri, Confirming Bidirectional Military Tech Pipeline
The debris from the Iranian drone that struck RAF Akrotiri on March 2, 2026, is doing more than revealing a gap in Britain’s air defenses. A specific component recovered from the wreckage — a Russian-made Kometa satellite navigation system —…
Amusement Parks Win Counter-Drone Authority. The FAA’s Section 2209 Fight Is Just Starting.
The amusement park industry now has a federal law on its side. The Safer Skies Act — embedded as Sections 8601-8607 of the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act — has been signed into law, and the International Association of…
Neros Technologies Joins Swindon’s Military Drone Cluster With £10M UK Investment
Swindon has quietly become one of the more consequential defense drone addresses in Europe. The latest arrival: Neros Technologies, the Los Angeles-based manufacturer best known for its NDAA-compliant Archer fiber-optic FPV drone, has confirmed it is opening its first UK…