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Northrop Flies DARPA Hybrid-Electric XRQ-73 SHEPARD UAS
Northrop Grumman has successfully flown the XRQ-73 SHEPARD, a hybrid-electric flying-wing UAS developed for DARPA’s Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration program. The milestone flight took place in April 2026 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, after previous delays, as…
St. Petersburg PD Puts Skydio X10 Drone Hive on Its Rooftop
The St. Petersburg Police Department has activated a rooftop Drone Hive at its headquarters — three Skydio X10 drones docked and ready to launch within seconds of a priority call. Chief Anthony Holloway announced the expansion this week, and the…
Doral Police Deploy Parrot ANAFI at Cadillac Championship
The Doral Police Department used last week’s return of the PGA Tour to Trump National Doral to debut its new drone unit under real operational pressure, as Local 10 reported. Two Parrot ANAFI UKR GOV drones took to the skies…
FBI Probes Theft Of 15 Agricultural Spray Drones In New Jersey As Iran War Heightens Bioterror Fears
Fifteen agricultural spray drones were stolen from a New Jersey location last month in what the FBI is treating as a sophisticated, possibly coordinated theft, according to reporting by national security journalists Jack Murphy and Sean D. Naylor at The…
DJI Launches Mic Mini 2 With Ten Faceplate Colors And A €33 Starting Price
DJI pushed the Mic Mini 2 live on its Hong Kong product page one week before the teased April 28 global reveal, confirming that the “More Than Sound” campaign is a second-generation wireless microphone, not an accessory refresh or a…
24 MQ-9 Reapers Lost Over Iran: A $720 Million Problem
Operation Epic Fury has cost the US Air Force 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones since late February. At roughly $30 million per airframe, the losses add up to around $720 million in hardware alone, as National Interest reports. Iranian surface-to-air missiles…
China’s HH-200 Cargo Drone Flies First Mission with 1.5-Ton Load
China just put another piece of its low-altitude cargo strategy in the air. The HH-200, a twin-engine unmanned freighter built by AVIC Xi’an Aircraft Industry Group, completed its maiden flight on April 15 at Pucheng, in Shaanxi Province, as Defense…
Hyfix Raised $15M to Out-Engineer DJI. Now Comes the Hard Part
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…
The Verge Confirms What We’ve Been Saying: Nobody Is Replacing DJI, and Drones Are Now for War
The Verge published a major report today asking the question every American drone pilot has been asking since December: who fills the DJI-shaped hole? Senior editor Sean Hollister interviewed me, Vic Moss, cofounder of the Drone Service Providers Alliance, Antigravity…
Masked Attackers Burn Ukrainian Thermal Imaging Factory in Czech Republic
A group of masked individuals set fire to the Archer-LPP production facility in Pardubice, Czech Republic on the night of March 19 to 20, destroying almost all of the plant’s production capacity, including finished thermal imaging sights and equipment in…
Seneca’s Aspen Firefighting Drones Face the Real Test: Can They Suppress a Fire Before Humans Arrive?
Seneca‘s autonomous firefighting drones are heading to Aspen, Colorado this fire season, and the question fire chiefs have been asking for years is finally getting a field answer: can drones actually suppress a blaze before a human crew reaches the…
America Keeps Buying Expensive Drones. China Keeps Building Millions of Cheap Ones.
A Substack analysis by Kate McKenna has been circulating hard in defense circles this week, and the numbers inside deserve a wider audience. Eleven MQ-9 Reapers downed in under two weeks. $330 million gone, lost to Iranian surface-to-air missiles and…