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House Passes ACERO Act Unanimously, Sending Drone Wildfire Bill to Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 390, the Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) Act, by a unanimous vote on February 24, 2026, sending the bipartisan wildfire drone bill to the Senate. Sponsored by Rep. Vince Fong (R-CA-20)…
While TechEx Was in Düsseldorf, Russian Intelligence Was Bugging Its Chief Engineer’s Office
On the day TechEx showed its unjammable fiber-optic FPV drones in Düsseldorf, Russia's intelligence was bugging their chief engineer's office back in Ukraine.
K-State Salina Hosts First Responder Drone Summit in April
Kansas State University Salina is bringing together law enforcement, fire departments, and emergency management agencies for a full day of drone education and hands-on demonstrations on April 22, connecting public safety professionals with UAS experts, FAA representatives, and the vendors…
FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks — The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 2026, banned the import of all new foreign-made consumer wireless routers, adding them to its Covered List after a White House-convened interagency panel determined they pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could…
Netherlands Becomes First NATO Nation to Embed Drone and Counter-Drone Units in Every Army Combat Formation — and Is Hiring 1,200 People to Do It
The Dutch army is about to become the most drone-integrated ground force in NATO. Starting in April, the Netherlands will begin recruiting between 1,000 and 1,200 military personnel to staff newly created drone and counter-drone units that will be embedded…
Brazil Lets Delivery Drones Fly Over Cities Without Asking Permission First
Brazil just made drone delivery significantly less bureaucratic, which is not a sentence most people expected to write about any country’s aviation regulator, as AINONLINE reported. On March 16, ANAC, Brazil’s civil aviation authority, authorized Speedbird Aero to fly its…
Ukraine’s Fiber Optic FPV Drones Now Switch to Radio When the Cable Snaps
The Ukrainian military has tested an FPV (First-Person View) drone that carries both fiber optic and radio control channels at once, giving operators a live fallback the moment the fiber cable breaks or loops mid-flight. Tetyana Chornovol, a Ukrainian journalist,…
Ukraine’s Deep Strike Drone Campaign Stretches the Kill Zone to 150 Kilometers, Strangling Russia’s Rear Logistics
Ukraine’s drone forces have pushed the battlefield kill zone to roughly 150 kilometers behind the front line, a dramatic expansion from the 15 kilometers the Financial Times confirmed in February, according to The Telegraph (May 16, 2025, paywalled). Ukrainian drones…
Ukraine’s Drone Kill Zone Triples in Size as Deep Strike Command Centre Reshapes the War
Ukraine’s drone campaign is strangling Russian front-line logistics at a scale that wasn’t possible even a few weeks ago. Writing in The Telegraph, journalist Verity Bowman reports that Ukrainian drones can now strike targets up to 93 miles behind the…
Seneca’s Aspen Firefighting Drones Face the Real Test: Can They Suppress a Fire Before Humans Arrive?
Seneca‘s autonomous firefighting drones are heading to Aspen, Colorado this fire season, and the question fire chiefs have been asking for years is finally getting a field answer: can drones actually suppress a blaze before a human crew reaches the…
America Keeps Buying Expensive Drones. China Keeps Building Millions of Cheap Ones.
A Substack analysis by Kate McKenna has been circulating hard in defense circles this week, and the numbers inside deserve a wider audience. Eleven MQ-9 Reapers downed in under two weeks. $330 million gone, lost to Iranian surface-to-air missiles and…
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…