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US Marines Build HANX, The First NDAA Compliant 3D Printed Drone
The U.S. Marine Corps has quietly crossed an important threshold in military drone development by creating its first fully NDAA compliant unmanned aircraft with no China sourced components, a compact and modular platform known as HANX, developed by the 2nd…
Turkey’s Drone Industry Faces a NATO Reality Check
Turkey did not wake up one morning and decide to dominate the global combat drone market. It crept there quietly, selling capable aircraft to buyers who wanted results fast, paperwork slow, and prices low, as War on The Rocks reports.…
Hundreds of drones to light up Toyota Field in classical music performance
Toyota Field is about to trade explosive booms for something far more elegant. On Friday evening, the San Antonio sky will become a floating concert hall as hundreds of drones take flight in a large scale aerial performance synchronized to…
RQ-170 ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Filmed Taxiing at Creech AFB in Rare Daylight Footage Weeks After Venezuela Mission
New video footage shows the RQ-170 Sentinel, one of America’s most secretive stealth drones, taxiing in broad daylight at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The footage, captured by aviation observer Uncanny Expeditions and shared on X by @thenewarea51 on…
Prison Drone Drops Turn Night Skies Into Smuggling Lanes
A single drone drop at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution recently made national headlines, not because of technical sophistication, but because of its grocery list, as WISTV reports. Crab legs, steak, Old Bay seasoning, and marijuana were delivered neatly from…
FAA NOTAM Creates Mobile No-Fly Zones That Could Affect Drone Pilots Nationwide
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I have four stories for you this week. An FAA NOTAM is creating mobile no-fly zones, and it’s a bit of an issue. The FAA has reopened the comment period for BVLOS rulemaking…
Western Chips Power Russia’s New Geran 5 Drone
Russia’s drone program just revealed another uncomfortable truth for the West. Even under heavy sanctions, American and European microchips are still showing up inside Russian weapons, this time inside a new high speed attack drone called the Geran 5, as…
Ukraine’s Pay Per Kill Drone Program Scales Fast
Ukraine has quietly turned battlefield necessity into a brutally efficient incentive system. According to newly appointed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a pay per kill program targeting Russian Shahed style attack drones has helped Ukraine secure roughly 40,000 interceptor drones in…
Helsing And Stark Beat Rheinmetall For €600 Million German Loitering Munition Contracts
German defense startups Helsing and Stark Defence are set to receive €300 million each in military orders for loitering munitions, while defense giant Rheinmetall AG gets passed over after failing to deliver a working prototype, Bloomberg reports. Helsing’s HX-2 And…
Bessemer’s 2026 Defense Roadmap: Autonomous Drones Move From Testing to Combat
Bessemer Venture Partners just released its 2026 defense tech roadmap, and the message for the drone industry is clear: autonomous systems aren’t experimental anymore. They’re defining battlefield outcomes. The venture capital firm, which has backed companies across the defense sector,…
DJI vs. TikTok: The Chinese Drone Giant Tried a US Strategy First, Then Abandoned It for Shell Companies
TikTok just pulled off what many considered impossible. On Thursday, ByteDance agreed to spin out a U.S. TikTok entity where non-Chinese investors will own approximately 80 percent of the American app. ByteDance keeps just 19.9 percent. The deal effectively neutralizes…
FAA NOTAM 6/4375 Bans Drones Near Federal Convoys, But Nobody Can See Where the Restrictions Are
A week-old FAA security notice has drone operators asking how they can comply with nationwide airspace restrictions they cannot see. NOTAM FDC 6/4375, issued January 16, 2026, prohibits all unmanned aircraft from flying within 3,000 feet laterally and 1,000 feet…