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Swarmer’s IPO Soars 950% as Investors Bet on Ukraine-Proven Drone Swarm Software
Swarmer (SWMR), an Austin, Texas-based company whose drone coordination software has run more than 100,000 combat missions in Ukraine, became the best-performing IPO of the year after its shares surged roughly 950% above their $5 offering price in just two…
Ukraine Brings $35–50 Billion Drone Deal Back To US Talks As Trump Insists Washington Doesn’t Need Kyiv’s Help
Ukraine’s negotiating team will push a long-stalled drone production deal when it meets with US officials on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Friday, March 20. According to Bloomberg, Zelenskyy said he remains ready to sign the agreement whenever Trump…
Barksdale Air Force Base Hit by Coordinated Drone Swarm at America’s Nuclear Bomber Hub
A confidential military briefing leaked to ABC News reveals that what looked like a single drone sighting at Barksdale Air Force Base on March 9 was actually the opening act of a week-long coordinated intrusion campaign. Between March 9 and…
Lutnick at Zipline: A New Blueprint for the American Drone Economy
The photos from inside Zipline’s South San Francisco manufacturing facility show Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, examining a drone airframe alongside CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton — American flags visible in the background. It’s a deliberate image, and it carries…
Drones Light the Fire at Pisgah National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service used a modified Freefly Alta X carrying Drone Amplified’s IGNIS aerial ignition system to conduct prescribed burns at the Wilson Ridge unit in Pisgah National Forest last weekend, treating 290 acres of hazardous fuel in terrain…
Drone Drops Knives, Drugs, and a Cell Phone Into New York State Prison, Fueling Push for Hochul’s Anti-Drone Law
At 1 a.m. on a Saturday, a drone flew into the secured grounds of Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York and released a package between two dormitory buildings. Guards found it before any inmate did. The wires sticking out…
Zelenskyy’s UK Parliament Speech Puts Ukraine’s Drone Deal Back on the Table — and Trump’s Dismissal on the Record
Speaking before the UK Parliament today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy laid out the most detailed public case yet for Ukraine as the world’s essential drone defense partner — and made clear that the Drone Deal proposed to the United States…
FAA & Photojournalist Rob Levine: The DHS Drone Ban Just Got Its First Federal Court Challenge
Minneapolis-based photojournalist Rob Levine filed a petition for judicial review Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, directly challenging NOTAM FDC 6/4375 — the FAA security notice that bans all drone flights within 3,000 feet…
Ukraine’s Sting Drone Is The Most Wanted Weapon In The Gulf. Ukraine Can’t Legally Sell It Yet.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Saudi Aramco was in talks with Wild Hornets to buy Sting interceptor drones for its oil infrastructure. Wild Hornets denied it the same day. Both statements are true — and the gap…
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…
