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FAA NOTAM Creates Mobile No-Fly Zones That Could Affect Drone Pilots Nationwide
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I have four stories for you this week. An FAA NOTAM is creating mobile no-fly zones, and it’s a bit of an issue. The FAA has reopened the comment period for BVLOS rulemaking…
Russia’s Starlink-Guided Shaheds Hit Moving Ukrainian Train, Kill 5: Musk Calls Polish FM ‘Drooling Imbecile’ For Demanding Action
You cannot hit a moving passenger train with a GPS coordinate. A pre-programmed Shahed-136 flies to a fixed point on a map and detonates. If the target moves, the drone misses. Three Shaheds hit the Barvinkove-Lviv-Chop train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv…
Western Chips Power Russia’s New Geran 5 Drone
Russia’s drone program just revealed another uncomfortable truth for the West. Even under heavy sanctions, American and European microchips are still showing up inside Russian weapons, this time inside a new high speed attack drone called the Geran 5, as…
Lasers Could Keep Military Drones Flying Forever
Lasers usually show up in military headlines as weapons, not as power supplies. PowerLight Technologies is flipping that expectation by using lasers to keep drones alive instead of shooting them down, as Techspot reports. The company has confirmed successful subsystem…
DJI Drone Helps Save 96 Year Old Woman From Fire
A 96 year old woman is alive after a DJI Matrice 30T drone gave firefighters critical early intelligence during an apartment fire in Euless, Texas, as FOX4 News reported. Fire crews were dispatched to an apartment complex in the 1200…
China’s PLA Demos 200-Drone Swarm Controlled by Single Soldier, Revealing the Pentagon’s Worst Nightmare
The People’s Liberation Army broadcast footage this week of a single operator directing 200 fixed-wing drones launched simultaneously from multiple vehicles. The test, conducted by the PLA-affiliated National University of Defence Technology (NUDT), aired on Chinese state television Tuesday and…
FAA NOTAM 6/4375 Bans Drones Near Federal Convoys, But Nobody Can See Where the Restrictions Are
A week-old FAA security notice has drone operators asking how they can comply with nationwide airspace restrictions they cannot see. NOTAM FDC 6/4375, issued January 16, 2026, prohibits all unmanned aircraft from flying within 3,000 feet laterally and 1,000 feet…
ABZ Innovation Raises €7M as European Ag Drone Maker Bets on Post-DJI Ban Opportunity
The day after Drone Nerds added Hungarian-made agricultural drones to its US product lineup, the manufacturer behind them announced a €7 million funding round. The timing is not coincidental. ABZ Innovation, a Budapest-based heavy-duty agricultural drone manufacturer, closed the round…
Georgia Army National Guard Launches State’s First FPV Drone Training Program
The Georgia Army National Guard this month launched its first dedicated drone pilot training program, joining a growing list of state Guard units racing to build FPV drone expertise following lessons learned from Ukraine’s battlefield. The 12-day Unmanned Aerial Systems…
Russia’s Geran-5 Jet Drone Uses Western Electronics
Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency GUR says Russia has deployed a newly identified jet powered attack drone called the Geran-5, a platform that departs sharply from earlier Geran models derived from Iran’s Shahed series, Business Insider reports. Unlike the familiar delta…
New Zealand Team Builds an “AI Chainsaw Drone” on a DJI Matrice Platform
A research team in New Zealand just turned a problem that normally means bucket trucks, ladders, and a lot of risk into something that looks like it belongs in a sci-fi workshop: an “AI chainsaw drone.” The “chainsaw drone” project…
Sterling Heights Brings Axon-Skydio DFR Program to Detroit Metro, Funded Entirely by Federal Forfeiture
The photo shows a Skydio drone hovering over a dock outside the Sterling Heights Police Department. It’s a familiar sight in 2026, but not in Michigan, where automated drone response has been slow to take hold despite the state’s heavy…