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Vivid Sydney Cancels All Drone Shows After Crash
Vivid Sydney just pulled the plug on every drone show left in its lineup. The trigger came Monday night, when roughly 89 drones dropped out of the sky during the festival’s Star-Bound performance at Cockle Bay. Eighty-three of them hit…
Benjamin Biggs’ Blackbird Drone Tops 730 km/h, But The 685 km/h Average Won’t Count
Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs pushed his Blackbird speed drone to 730 km/h (454 mph) on a downwind run and 640 km/h (398 mph) flying back into the wind, for a two-direction average of 685 km/h (426 mph). The average…
Beijing’s Drone Ban Takes Effect Friday, Squeezing DJI On Its Home Turf
Beijing’s near-total ban on consumer drone sales and storage takes effect this Friday, May 1, with the deadline for existing drone owners to register their equipment with police falling on Wednesday, April 30. That gives Beijing residents three days to…
Aevex Stock Doubles in Two Days as Wall Street Bets Big on Military Drone Makers
Shares of Aevex Corp. doubled Monday, April 20, 2026, just two trading sessions after the military drone manufacturer listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Class A shares jumped as much as 49% to $40.25, up from the initial public…
Skydio’s $9M USAFCENT Deal Puts X10s on Middle East Bases
Skydio just landed the kind of contract that separates a public safety drone company from a defense contractor. U.S. Air Forces Central, the USAFCENT component of U.S. Central Command, awarded the San Mateo, California company an order exceeding $9 million…
Japan Drops Apaches, Bets $70M on Drones Instead
Japan just put real money behind the idea that attack helicopters are finished. The country’s fiscal year 2026 defense budget, enacted on April 7, includes ¥11.1 billion ($69.7 million) to buy five “wide-area UAVs” for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force,…
Ukraine’s Petcube Founder Built AI Drones That Strike Without a Pilot, and Investors Are Lining Up
Yaroslav Azhnyuk went from building a smartphone-controlled laser toy for bored pets to manufacturing AI-guided kamikaze drones that fly their final attack run without human input. The New York Times profiled Azhnyuk and his two defense companies today, documenting how…
Skyrover Pledges to Stay in the US, But Its DJI Ties Raise Questions the Five-Year Plan Doesn’t Answer
Skyrover posted a “We’re Here to Stay” announcement to its official Reddit community this week, formally titled “A Letter to Our U.S. Customers: Our Long-Term Commitment to the Drone Community.” The statement lays out a five-year roadmap covering FCC compliance,…
RCTESTFLIGHT Builds 41-Inch Variable Pitch Quadcopter That Outperforms Direct Drive on Efficiency
Daniel Riley, the engineer behind the RCTESTFLIGHT YouTube channel, has published a new video documenting a years-long project to build a large-format quadcopter with variable pitch rotor blades, belt-drive reduction, and fixed-RPM motors. The result is a 41-inch, gear-reduced quadcopter…
Army Launches Altius-700 Drone From an Apache in Under Six Months
The U.S. Army just demonstrated something that sounds straightforward until you think about what it actually required: launching an autonomous strike drone from a moving Apache attack helicopter in less than six months from the day someone wrote the requirement…
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…
This $155 Drone Built With a $5 Chip Hits 67 mph
Nobody asked Max Imagination to do this. There was no grant, no sponsor, no defense contract. Just a YouTuber, an ESP32 microcontroller that costs about as much as a decent burrito, a consumer 3D printer, and a question that apparently…