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Washington state drone news: regulations, industry developments, innovative uses, events, and the impact on businesses and communities in the state.
Starmer’s Drone Dilemma: How a Shahed at RAF Akrotiri Pulled Britain Deeper Into the Iran War
The runway at RAF Akrotiri was still being assessed for damage when the political fallout in London began. A drone, identified by Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides as Iranian-made, crashed into Britain’s sovereign air base in Cyprus just after midnight on…
US Commerce Department Streamlines Drone Export Controls: A Strategic Push Toward Allied Supply Chains
The policy change is narrow on paper. The implications are not. On January 21, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that removes licensing requirements for certain commercial UAVs exported to most…
Zelensky Says Ukraine’s Drone Interception Know-How Is ‘Irreplaceable’ as Middle East War Pulls in European Allies
Three years of absorbing more than 57,000 Shahed-type drone strikes has turned Ukraine into the world’s most battle-tested authority on shooting Iranian-designed weapons out of the sky. Now, as Iran’s drone and missile salvos spread across the Gulf and into…
MyDefence Opens Counter-Drone Factory in Oklahoma City
A Danish counter-drone company just planted its flag on American soil. MyDefence opened its U.S. manufacturing and innovation facility in Oklahoma City on February 26 — and the timing couldn’t be more deliberate, as Oklahoma Commerce reports. From Copenhagen to…
Skydio DFR Command Hits 10 Million Calls
Ten million calls for service. Let’s sink that in. 10,000,000 people needing help, reporting an emergency.That’s not a product milestone. That’s a proof of concept that just became undeniable. The Number That Changes the Conversation Skydio just announced that its…
DJI Drone Tracks DUI Suspect in Freezing Woods
In the blue hush of a 5 a.m. Washington morning, when frost grips the grass and most of the world is still asleep, a small aircraft lifted into the air above Deer Park. Not a helicopter. Not a plane. A…
UC Irvine’s FlyTrap Attack Defeats DJI Mini 4 Pro and HoverAir X1 Autonomous Tracking With an Ordinary Umbrella
The paper dropped this week at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, and the finding is blunt: an ordinary umbrella covered with an AI-generated pattern can trick autonomous target-tracking drones into flying directly toward the person…
Orlando approves $6.83M Skydio drone program after trial drone beat officers to the scene one-third of the time
The Orlando City Council voted Monday to approve a $6.83 million Drone as First Responder program built on Axon’s Skydio platform. The decision comes after a seven-week pilot at OPD headquarters produced a striking result: a single drone arrived before…
DJI hired Biden’s former Solicitor General and a former FCC enforcement chief to fight the drone ban
Everyone covered the lawsuit. Almost nobody reported on what the filing actually says. The actual court document DJI submitted to the Ninth Circuit on February 20 reveals something far more interesting than the company’s legal arguments: it reveals who DJI…
Washington County Tests DFR Drone Program
In Washington County, deputies just gained a new pair of eyes in the sky. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office has launched a Drone as First Responder program, and it is already turning routine calls into coordinated aerial operations, as KGW8…
Drone and Missile Build-Up Tightens Taiwan Perimeter
The First Island Chain is no longer just a line on a Pentagon map. It is becoming a launchpad. And one that can make the Chinese very, very angry, very, very fast. Following a bilateral strategic dialogue in Manila, U.S.…
DJI takes FCC to court: the government had a year to prove a threat and never bothered
DJI is done waiting for Washington to play fair. Two months after the FCC added all foreign-made drones to its Covered List, the world’s largest drone manufacturer has taken the fight to federal court, filing a petition with the U.S.…