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Skydio’s Weapons Reversal, a DJI Avata 2 Police Disarm, and the World Cup Drone Crackdown
Welcome to your weekly US news update. I have three stories for you this week. The Skydio CEO walks back their no-weapon pledge, which is an interesting one. A Sacramento sheriff uses a DJI Avata 2 to disarm a suspect,…
St Paul Police Logged 472 DFR Flights in Four Weeks
The St Paul Police Department’s new dock-based Drone as First Responder program flew 472 missions in its first four weeks, already passing the 436 patrol-drone flights the department logged in all of 2025. The three rooftop Skydio X10 drones went…
Irvine Police Drone Catches Shoplifter in Truck Bed
The Irvine Police Department’s Drone as First Responder program ended a Walmart shoplifting case the same way it ends most calls these days, with the suspect on the ground and an aircraft watching from above. Officers arrested Guillermo Hazael Martinez…
Drone Nerds Adds RigiTech Eiger for 62-Mile Delivery
XTI Aerospace’s Drone Nerds division added the RigiTech Eiger, a long-range delivery drone rated for 62 miles (100 km) per mission, to its enterprise portfolio. The Swiss-built aircraft takes off vertically, flies like a fixed-wing plane, and needs no runway.…
Anduril Eyes Nissan’s Oppama Plant to Mass-Produce Japanese Drones, Turning a Car Factory Into a Weapons Line
Anduril Industries is in talks to buy Nissan’s Oppama assembly plant in Yokosuka, Japan, and convert the 64-year-old car factory into a production site for military drones. Reuters broke the story on June 25, 2026, citing three people familiar with…
DJI Mavic 4 Pro Creator Combo Drops $600 on Amazon
The DJI Mavic 4 Pro Creator Combo is on sale on Amazon right now for $3,400. That’s down from its standard $3,999 retail price, a 15 percent discount that puts $600 back in your pocket. The sale covers the full…
DJI Prime Day 2026: Best Drone Deals Worth Buying
Amazon Prime Day 2026 runs through June 26, and for once the drone deals are actually worth your time. I’ve flown most of DJI’s current lineup personally, and several of these discounts are the lowest prices I’ve seen on this…
Walmart and Wing Plan Drone Deliveries in Maricopa
Walmart is moving drone delivery into seven new markets, and Maricopa, Arizona is confirmed on the list. The company announced the expansion in early June 2026, naming Wing as its delivery partner for the greater Phoenix area push. No launch…
Saronic Corsair Apache Rescue Was Years in the Making
On June 8, 2026, an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and a Navy sea drone picked up the two surviving crew members within two hours. It was described afterward as an operational first. It…
Zipline Adds Austin to Texas Drone Delivery Push
Zipline plans to expand its autonomous drone delivery service to Austin later this year, making it the California company’s third Texas market in under 12 months. Dallas-Fort Worth launched in August 2025. Houston followed in April 2026. Austin is next,…
Thiel and Sequoia Bet $570M on German Drones
Stark Defence, the Berlin startup that builds loitering munitions for the German military, closed a €500 million (roughly $570 million) funding round this week led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The deal values the two-year-old company at…
DJI Matrice 300 RTK Found Hidden Hotspots in Clarkson Apartment Fire
A three-story apartment complex caught fire near SUNY Brockport in Clarkson, New York, and the fire moved through the attic faster than crews expected. When Brockport Fire Chief Adam Leggett looked up at the height of the building and realized…