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The US Navy has quietly crossed a threshold that defense planners have been chasing for decades. A warship used a laser, not a missile, to destroy multiple airborne threats during a real sea based test, as reported by the Kyiv Post. According to Lockheed Martin, the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Preble successfully shot down…
Clark County, Nevada just gave recreational drone pilots in the Las Vegas area something they rarely get: more places to fly. The county’s Department of Parks and Recreation updated its Drone/UAV Operation Policy on November 10, 2025, expanding the list of approved parks from roughly 8 locations to 28. That is a 3.5x increase, and…
Canada is serious about defence, and not just in speeches or budget lines. With the federal government’s 2025 Canada Strong budget putting fresh emphasis on domestic innovation, Niagara College has stepped forward with new hands-on engineering programs designed to train students to build the systems Canada increasingly depends on, as Notlocal reports. Drones, autonomous vehicles,…
It is the scenario every dog owner fears, and for Amanda and Zach Sebert in Marysville, Ohio, it became painfully real just as a major winter storm rolled into Union County. Their one year old Bernedoodle, Gracie, slipped out of the yard in the Adena Pointe neighborhood only minutes before snow and brutal cold shut…
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) just published a solicitation for something the U.S. military has needed for years but never had: a box that can store drones, launch them in mass, recover them, recharge them, and do it all over again with almost no humans involved. The program is called the Containerized Autonomous Drone…
Hillsdale and Montvale are waiting on results from recent deer population surveys carried out with thermal imaging drones, with reports expected sometime in February, as The Press Group reports. Borough administrator Mike Ghassali, who is also Montvale’s mayor, said both towns were surveyed back to back during the winter, a period that improves accuracy because…
The Santa Ana Police Department is asking the City Council to approve a contract worth about $683,000 to officially launch the city’s first police drone program, with a vote scheduled for February 3. If approved, Santa Ana would join a growing list of police departments in Orange County that already operate their own unmanned aircraft…
DJI has done it again. The company that insists it keeps its secrets locked in a digital vault somehow keeps “accidentally” letting them slip out through regulatory filings, leaked photos, and conveniently timed spec drops. The latest victim of this tradition is the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Pro, a camera DJI has not announced, teased,…
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