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Sacramento Sheriff Used A $999 DJI Avata 2 To Disarm A Suspect, And The Politics Are Sharper Than The Knife
A Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office pilot flew a consumer FPV drone into a garage, found a barricaded parolee holding a knife, and pulled the blade out of his hand with a magnet before any deputy stepped into the room. The…
FBI Has Seized 300+ Drones At World Cup Stadiums, And The Per-City Numbers Show Who Is Actually Getting Caught
The FBI has intercepted more than 300 unauthorized drones at FIFA World Cup 2026 venues across the United States in the first ten days of the tournament, a figure that converts a year of federal counter-drone spending into a hard…
China Unveils 55-Pound Laser That Burns Drones in 4 Seconds
China just put a counter-drone laser on a soldier’s back. At the Defence Information Equipment & Technology Exhibition that opened June 16 in Beijing, the state-linked contractor Harbin Xinguang Optic-Electronics Technology rolled out two man-portable laser weapons, the Lijian II…
Young Touts Indiana FAA Test Site At Spray Drone Field Day While The Aircraft On The Tarmac Stay Chinese
Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) spent part of June 8 at the Southeast Purdue Ag Center in Butlerville, watching agricultural spray drones lift off at the Indiana Spray Drone Association Education Day. The visit gave a sitting U.S. senator a close…
Urban Ray Pushes Medical Drone Logistics Forward
The headline is simple: samples flew from St. Josef Hospital to the Medical Care Center for Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology Ruhr in Essen through a fully automated hub-to-hub process. The useful part is what that implies, because the real bottleneck…
TCSO Drones Will Answer 911 Calls Before Deputies Do
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office is about to get its own fleet of 911 response drones. The county is finalizing a deal with Motorola Solutions to run a Drone as First Responder program built on BRINC hardware, the same setup…
Boynton Beach OKs $90K Axon Drone Over Budget Fears
Boynton Beach is getting a police drone first responder program, but not without a fight over the bill. On June 16 the city commission approved an Axon drone package in a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Aimee Kelley the lone no…
DJI Pulls the Matrice 4D’s C6 Compliance Off the Dock, Handing STS-02 Operators a Cheaper Path to BVLOS
DJI has extended the existing C6 class certification on its Matrice 4D Series to cover standalone flights with the DJI RC Plus 2 Enterprise controller, removing the requirement that the aircraft launch from a DJI Dock 3 to fly compliant…
Fire Point Turns a Moscow Strike Into a Trade Show Ad
Fire Point ran Thursday’s combat footage from a Moscow oil refinery strike as floor entertainment at its own booth in Paris. The Ukrainian drone and missile maker ran the raw video on a screen at Eurosatory 2026 hours after its…
FCC Cracks Open the Door for Chinese Toy Drones, Walmart and Wing Expand, and a Man Shoots a BB Gun at a DFR Drone
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I have three stories for you this week. The FCC opens the door for Chinese toy drones, but there’s a bit of a catch. Walmart and Wing are expanding their drone delivery operation.…
Newport News Sends Drones to 911 Calls in 90 Seconds
Newport News, Virginia is about to start sending drones to 911 calls before officers or firefighters arrive, with some aircraft reaching a scene in under 90 seconds. The city has eight drones staged at four launch sites, ready to lift…
Mexico Downs Drone Over Korea’s World Cup Training
A drone flew over South Korea’s closed World Cup training session in Guadalajara on June 17, and Mexican forces brought it down before the team ran its tactical drills. Coach Hong Myung-bo confirmed the sighting a day later and called…
Drone Pilot’s Motor Trick Warns Surfer of Circling Shark
A drone pilot in Northern California spotted a shark circling a surfer on June 10, then used the aircraft itself to push the man out of the water before anything happened. Nick Bertocchini was flying over Seascape Beach in Aptos…
DJI Pocket 4P US Ban Spawns a Near-Clone: Meet Muse 2 Pro
American creators who wanted the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P and got blocked by the FCC now have a workaround with a familiar shape. A US-registered brand called Xtra is preparing the Muse 2 Pro, a dual-lens gimbal camera whose spec…
Oakland Sheriff Drones, K-9 Find Missing Holly Toddler Safe
A Holly homeowner’s doorbell camera caught an 18-month-old boy walking alone past the 500 block of Elm Street at 11:54 a.m. on June 19, and within minutes Holly Police had Oakland County Sheriff’s Office drones and a K-9 team in…
Thales and Renault Unveil 4 TROOP at Eurosatory 2026
Thales and Renault Group rolled out a joint hybrid 4×4 tactical vehicle named 4 TROOP at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris-Nord Villepinte on June 15, designed to serve as a mobile command and control node for unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned…
Orlando Police Launch 11-Drone Skydio DFR Network
The Orlando Police Department activated its automated Drone as First Responder network on June 17, four months after council approved the $6.83 million contract amendment to deploy 11 Skydio drones across nine rooftop docks. The system is now responding live…
NASA Just Flew Human Kidneys by BVLOS Drone
NASA, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), and nonprofit tissue bank LifeNet Health have successfully completed what they are calling a first-of-its-kind study: transporting human kidneys by drone beyond visual line of sight. The flights took place on June…
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