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 September 4, 2026 — the feed below updates with every new story.
A real estate photographer's DJI Mavic 4 Pro is shot out of the sky in Athens, Alabama, GoPro hands 90% of the company to Starman Optical, and UAS Sentry unveils the $1,595 Nexus Observer portable Remote ID detector.
DJI put the Power 2000 on stage at IFA 2026 as a grid-tied home battery with its first balcony solar kit. US buyers get none of it.
Pocket 4P owners in Japan discovered DJI's latest firmware lets the FrameTap remote and DJI Mic 3 connect at once. DJI's changelog never mentioned it.
DJI has booked a September 7 Venice Film Festival panel for the Osmo Pocket 4P, its fourth European stage for a camera Americans still cannot buy.
Pilot Institute read and coded all 3,824 filings in FCC docket 26-189. 98.6% oppose the military-grade drone ban as written. Sixteen support it.
DJI's 26-page filing, signed by a former U.S. Solicitor General, says no security agency ever endorsed the FCC's seven military-grade drone categories.
Surf Life Saving NSW now flies 73 shark drones over 97 beaches after 750 winter sightings. The nets went back in the same day the drone hours grew.
DJI priced the Osmo 360 II at €589 and £509 for a September 15 release across Europe. The FCC-cleared camera still has no US price or date.
Weber County rescue pilot Kyle Nordfors told the FCC no US-made drone matches what his team flies, and offered to prove it. His full comments, and how to file yours before midnight.
DroneXL filed comments in FCC docket 26-189 today. Read the filing in full, and use the step-by-step guide to submit your own before the window closes.
Every aircraft on DJI Enterprise's Commercial UAV Expo stand falls inside the FCC's proposed military-grade definition. Comments close today.
A gunshot brought down a real estate photographer's DJI Mavic 4 Pro camera drone over Athens, Alabama. Federal law calls that destroying an aircraft.
New US tariffs on imported drones take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on September 3. The duty applies at import, not at checkout, so existing inventory can keep selling at today's prices.
A survey of 885 drone professionals at Commercial UAV Expo found 45.8% in wait-and-see mode on fleet procurement, and only 13.8% actually moving.
A Commercial UAV Expo panel spent the morning correcting the word ban. What bites operators is parts, repair queues and six to nine week lead times.
Commercial UAV Expo opens in Las Vegas with an FCC Covered List panel while DJI works booth 903, no keynote, and a Ninth Circuit case worth $1.56 billion.
Jake Sloan breaks down the DJI Osmo Nano, Action 6, and Osmo 360 action cameras — specs, overheating, macro lenses, and which one fits how you actually shoot.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. Washington state jacks up the commercial drone fees, an industry survey shows DJI still dominates, the FCC tells certification labs to tighten their screening, and SiFly raises $20 million. So let's get to it.
The DJI Mini 5 Pro is $683 at Amazon. Its LiDAR sits inside the FCC category that closes September 2, and a 25% drone tariff lands September 3.
DJI Enterprise's World Heritage 3D contest runs to October 10. It suggests national parks as subjects. In the US, those are the illegal ones.
DJI's 15-second teaser dates the Osmo 360 II for September 3 at 7 AM EDT, three weeks after a China-only launch that skipped an American price.
DJI strapped its Osmo Action 6 to LandSpace's Zhuque-3 booster and published the full uncut ride, from ignition to a vertical landing in northwest China.
A YouTube builder's custom 3-inch quad pairs one 21700 cell with a DJI O4 Air Unit for 34-minute flights and a 5 km lake crossing, plus the DJI part US builders can't get.
DJI's new Campus Creators program pays students to post about DJI gear, eight months into an FCC block on every new DJI product in the US and days before a second ban deadline.
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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