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Ukraine publicly introduced a new long-range strike drone called Sichen on April 14 at a Ministry of Foreign Affairs exhibition in Kyiv. The aircraft is built for deep strikes at ranges up to 870 miles and carries an 88-pound warhead, as reported by Militarnyi. The name translates to “January” in Ukrainian, a reference to the…
Barclays published research on Wednesday arguing that autonomous food delivery, driven by sidewalk robots and drones, could cut per-order costs to roughly $1 in the long term. The British bank sees about $16 billion in unlocked annual profit across the global food delivery industry if penetration reaches projected levels, as Yahoo! reported. For the drone…
A Santa Clara startup called Hyfix Spatial Intelligence just pulled in $15 million to build an American-designed system-on-a-chip that folds flight control, high-precision positioning, secure communications, and onboard compute into a single piece of U.S.-manufactured silicon. Craft Ventures led the round. The pitch is that this will be the American brain for drones and robots…
Good day folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. In this video, we’re going to do a quick unboxing of the brand new DJI Osmo Pocket 4. This is the Creator Combo, and it’s got some nice new features and upgrades, including 107 GB of built-in storage. It can now capture at 240 frames per second…
So, let me get this straight, and you tell me if I’m way off here, but DJI drones are dangerous enough to block future models, but not dangerous enough to ban the estimated 2 million that are flying around in this country right now. Because that’s exactly what this situation is starting to look like.…
YouTube creator Cam Mackey argues the DJI Pocket 4 is blocked from US sale because of political money and Trump family drone investments, not security.
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 for Skydio Dock and X10 systems to secure American airbases across the Middle East. Skydio…
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. The FAA publishes a new NOTAM to replace the controversial ICE NOTAM — interesting stuff there. The Pentagon cites classified intelligence to oppose DJI’s FCC petition. The FAA clears the military to use anti-drone lasers in US airspace. And DJI…
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