Launches, firmware, rumors, deals, and the ban fight — every DJI story, newest first.
Every DJI story we publish lands on this page: drone and camera launches, firmware and app updates, rumors and FCC filings, price moves, and the regulatory fight over DJI’s future in the United States. The feed spans the whole DJI universe, from the Mini and Mavic lines to the Osmo cameras and the enterprise fleet. For the full archive organized by product, head to the DJI company hub; for hands-on verdicts, our reviews desk has flown nearly everything DJI ships.
Last updated October 16, 2026 — the feed below updates with every new story.
Greg Reverdiau: the FCC votes Oct. 29 to cut off Chinese test labs, DroneSense adds LAANC through Aloft, and DJI's Dock 4 swaps batteries in 25 seconds.
The FCC filed the Pentagon's Section 1709 letters on DJI under seal and says it did not rely on them. The public pages name DJI and no specific threat.
A Logan-Rogersville drone showed Highlandville crews a 200-acre Stone County, Mo., fire had jumped a river. It was the chief's first drone at a fire.
DJI's teaser sets October 20 at 12 PM GMT for the Pearl White Osmo Pocket 4P, 82 days after the black model. Its Notify Me link ends on a 404 in the US.
DJI's Dock 4 and Matrice 5TD bring a 25-second battery swap and 59-minute flights. Its radio specs cover Canada, Europe, China and Japan. Not the US.
One Ocean County, NJ sheriff's drone kit costs $29,428. NPR priced a US-made rival at twice DJI's Matrice 400, and sheriffs want an FCC exemption.
The DJI Mini 5 Pro is $679 at Amazon, its lowest price yet. The cut landed with Prime Big Deal Days on October 6 and was still live October 12.
DJI ends Phantom 4 Pro V2 service October 31 and Agras T16 and T20 service November 2, as the FCC weighs barring the spray drones that replace them.
The FCC votes October 29 on ending recognition of every mainland China test lab by December 1, 2028. DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P was tested at one of them.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: the DJI Neo 3 has a video leak, Sky Elements sets a Guinness World Record, the FAA hands out $12 million to drone test sites, and the FBI doubles its counter-drone school capacity.
DJI's October 14 teaser shows its next dock, the leaked Dock 4, swapping a charged battery into a new drone. Dock 3 charges in place. The US can't buy it.
DJI Neo 3 specs and features from three weeks of leaks: square 1/1.1-inch sensor, 192.7 g, three-cell battery, caged props, RC Mini. No price or date yet.
My beginner's guide to the DJI Osmo 360 II: the bundles, the buttons, memory, charging, activation, the menus, four ways to record, mics and DJI Mimo.
A DJI Neo 3 battery label reads 1,800 mAh, 10.5 V, 18.9 Wh: three cells, seven pins, no Neo 2 pack will fit. Jasper Ellens shows how the props come off.
Leaked video shows the DJI Neo 3 flying from the RC Mini, which pairs from its own screen and hides a scroll wheel. The Neo 2 looks small beside it.
I flew my DJI Mavic 4 Pro with the RayNeo GT Max AR glasses plugged into the RC Pro 2. Here's what worked, what didn't, and who they're for.
Amazon has the DJI Mini 3 at $269 for Prime members through October 7, $150 off list and level with its June low. The Fly More Combo is $600.
Leaked DJI Neo 3 unboxing: an RC Mini with a screen, three batteries, a charging hub, and the slotted battery packs DroneXL doubted in September.
The DJI Neo is $139 on Amazon for Prime Big Deal Days, matching its lowest price ever, while DJI's own store shows it at $169 and out of stock.
Drone Parts Center in Nivelles, Belgium, is the first Benelux dealer certified for DJI's GEO training. Matrice 4E and Zenmuse L3 courses now open.
A leaked DJI Neo 3 marketing sheet lists a square 1/1.1-inch sensor with native vertical shooting, 2x lossless zoom and the RC Mini. The Neo 2 has a 1/2-inch sensor.
A DHS addendum obtained by DroneXL scores the DJI Matrice 4T at 4.6 and the Matrice 30T at 4.3 at Hudson Yards, above the Skydio X10D at 3.7. The public report left those numbers out. I think we're allowed to ask why.
Kyle Nordfors takes the FCC drone ban fight to The Hill: 25 to 30 lives saved, searches cut from 4.5 hours to under one, no US drone that matches.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: DSPA asks Congress to look at the DHS Blue UAS report, 15 states sue the FAA over drone delivery, DJI's next enterprise drone leaks in China, and Skydio unveils a fixed-wing drone and a robotic dock.
The feed on this page is ordered newest first, so the top entry is the most recent DJI story we have published. DJI moves in bursts — a launch week can carry several stories a day, while a quiet stretch between releases runs to one or two.
The DJI Rumors page collects the leaks, regulatory filings, retail box photographs and price lists separately, and says which class of source each one comes from. Those stories appear in this feed too — the rumors page is the filtered view.
Not banned outright, and the drone you already own is not grounded. The 2025 NDAA gave a national security agency one year to audit DJI's equipment; none did, and the default consequence took effect, putting foreign-made drones on the FCC Covered List in December 2025. That restricts new equipment authorizations, importation and marketing rather than flight. Firmware and security updates for aircraft authorized before that date are protected until at least January 1, 2029 under FCC Public Notice DA 26-454.
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