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Turkish Drone Finds Iran President’s Crashed Helicopter, Draws Star and Crescent
A Turkish drone found the crashed helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi in the mountains of East Azerbaijan, Iran. The drone’s flight path then drew a crescent, visible on flight tracking websites, reports NDTV. The Crash President Raisi and…
Fastest Quadcopter Smashes Guinness Speed Record
Last year, a mechanical engineer set a Guinness World Record for the fastest battery-powered RC quadcopter at 224 mph. That record has now been obliterated by a custom-made drone, Peregreen 2, hitting nearly 300 mph. This incredible feat was achieved…
DJI MINI 4K The Best Beginner and Budget friendly drone of 2024
DJI recently released the Mini 4K, which is essentially like the Mini 2 but a couple of hundred dollars less. The real question is what can you do with a $300 drone that films in 4K and weighs less than…
Merrillville’s Police Turn to Drones for Enhanced Public Safety
Overview of Merrillville’s Drone Program In a recent stride toward advanced law enforcement technology, the Merrillville Police Department in Indiana has embraced the use of drones to boost their crime-fighting efforts. The town announced on Monday that their drone program…
Iran’s Secret Drone Factory Trains Hezbollah Fighters
Iran is secretly training Hezbollah fighters to carry out drone attacks on northern Israel at a rapidly expanding top-secret base near the holy city of Qom, according to leaked classified documents from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The drone…
DJI Mini 4K Unboxing and First Flight – Best Drone for Beginners?
All right, so DJI just released their beginner entry-level drone. This here is the DJI Mini 4K and replaces the older DJI Mini 2 SE, giving us a better camera allowing us to capture higher resolution video. So what I…
Ukraine Transforms Sport Plane into Long-Range Strike Drone
Nynja Plane Crashes in Russia, 600 Miles from Ukraine Border Ukrainian engineers have apparently converted another sport plane into a long-range strike drone, with one crashing inside Russia, reportedly more than 600 miles from the Russia-Ukraine border. This matches the…
Washington State Expands Funding for Law Enforcement Drones Despite Privacy Concerns
Washington State, one of the earliest and largest adopters of law enforcement drones, is allocating additional funding for vehicle-tracking technologies, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Washington State Department of Commerce has reportedly set aside $1.43 million for proposals, with…
Crashing DJI’s New Enterprise Drone – Matrice 3D and Dock 2 First Impressions
Okay, so last week I spent the entire day with the DJI Matrice 3D and the DJI Dock 2, and I have some thoughts. My purpose for spending time with the setup was to help AVSS put together a promo…
Two Men Arrested for Attempting to Smuggle Drugs into Prison with Drone
In a brazen attempt to smuggle contraband into a West Tennessee prison, two men were apprehended by the Bells Police Department on Wednesday night. The suspects were caught with a drone and a variety of illegal items, including fentanyl pills,…
Weekly UAS News Update: DJI Dock 2,
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. This week we have three stories for you: the DJI Dock 2 that was finally released (we talked about this in the last couple weeks), Helios getting approval to do a drone swarm,…
High-Tech Heroes: Thermal Drones Save Injured Dog Missing for a Day
A Leap Into the Future of Pet Rescue Imagine this: a dog, Guinness, hit by a car, injured, and missing for over 24 hours. It sounds like a nightmare, right? But here’s where modern technology steps in and changes the…