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With four days to go before DJI’s official announcement, Igor Bogdanov’s @Quadro_news account has published the first set of official press images of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 in a three-part photo set. DJI has confirmed April 16 as the announcement date across its social channels. What’s left to surprise us is rapidly shrinking. What…
I fly four drones for work. The Mini 5 Pro is the one I reach for first. That’s not a throwaway line. I use it almost every day, and it’s earned that spot in my kit by being the most versatile small drone DJI has ever made. As of April 11, the DJI Mini 5…
Honeywell Aerospace and California-based Odys Aviation have announced a collaboration to mount Honeywell’s SAMURAI counter-drone system on the Laila, a hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft built for long-range, runway-independent operations, as reported by UAS Weekly. The combined platform is designed to hunt hostile drones from the air before they reach critical infrastructure. What SAMURAI Actually Doe
The Department of Defense filed a memorandum with the Federal Communications Commission opposing DJI’s petition to be removed from the agency’s Covered List, as first reported by Broadband Breakfast on April 7. The filing’s most consequential detail is what it doesn’t fully reveal: according to the DoD’s memo, the national security determination that led to…
Northwestern State University’s ARGO Lab just ran its first drone training program for soldiers at Fort Polk, Louisiana. The two-day course took troops from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division through the fundamentals of UAS operations, flight planning, sensor work, and field maintenance, as reported by National Today. What the Training Covered JD…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the U.S. military formal clearance on Friday to use high-energy lasers against suspected drones in U.S. airspace, ending a two-month interagency dispute that twice shut down commercial flight operations over the Texas-Mexico border. FAA administrator Bryan Bedford said in a joint statement with the Defense Department that the agency…
US defense startup XDOWN has unveiled the STUD (Small Tactical Unmanned Drone), a hand-launched UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) designed to reach active flight from a stowed position in two seconds. According to NextGen Defense, a single soldier can carry 8 to 12 units in a standard tactical backpack, launch them by hand, and let the…
The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) is telling the full story of what seven drones stationed across the city are actually doing, and the numbers are hard to argue with. In an interview with KKTV published April 6, 2026, CSPD Sgt. Jeff Edmonds said the drones, part of the department’s Real Time Crime Center Unit,…
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