
DJI Responds To Ontario Ban, Calls Decision Country-Of-Origin Move Without Proven Evidence
DJI says Ontario's Chinese drone ban is a country-of-origin decision without evidence, citing seven years of audits and warning of public safety costs.
Every firmware drop, every FCC filing, every leak out of Shenzhen. DJI is the most-covered drone maker on DroneXL — this is the desk that watches them.

DJI says Ontario's Chinese drone ban is a country-of-origin decision without evidence, citing seven years of audits and warning of public safety costs.

The Ontario government will ban the Ontario Provincial Police from using Chinese-made drones on highly sensitive operations and begin phasing out broader provincial government use of Chinese hardware, the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement announced on May 20, 2026. The press release does not name DJI directly, but the company is…

Estrella Resources has deployed a DJI FlyCart 30 heavy-lift quadcopter in Timor-Leste to fly a drone-mounted geophysical survey that can image manganese mineralization down to 800 meters (2,625 feet) below the surface, the kind of depth that until recently required a helicopter to access. The Australian explorer is using the FlyCart 30 to carry the…

The Corman Park Police Service in Saskatchewan has deployed its DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise drone 37 times since receiving it in April 2025, and one of those deployments involved finding an intoxicated man who had crawled into a dumpster on Highway 41 in -20°C (-4°F) temperatures. The thermal camera on the aircraft picked him up.…

German autonomous aerial systems developer CiS unveiled the ORKA Dock at the Combined Naval Event in Farnborough on May 19, 2026, calling it the world’s first fully autonomous drone launch and recovery system that operates from a moving uncrewed surface vessel without any human in the loop. The system was validated during SeaSEC 2026, an…

Shawn from Air Photography breaks down the DJI Avata 360 vs. Avata 2: image quality, FPV flight, FocusTrack, safety, and which is right for you.

The DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo dropped to $1,099 on Amazon over the weekend, which is $500 off the $1,599 list and at or near the lowest price it’s been since launch. I fly a Mini 5 Pro almost every week and have run mine hard since release, so this is one of…

UK YouTube creator DM Productions runs a blind camera test between the £369 DJI Lito X1 and £689 Mini 5 Pro, and concludes the price gap is hard to justify.
Firmware drops, FCC filings, leaks, rumors — the DJI desk is the busiest one in the DroneXL newsroom.