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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 when the shark moved in behind a surfer named Rex and began to circle. Instead…
FBI disrupts an explosive-drone plot against the White House UFC Freedom 250 event, arresting five, as World Cup counter-drone spending peaks.
A firefighting helicopter working a brush fire near Moab, Utah encountered an unauthorized drone over the active fire area, and state fire managers responded by publishing photos of what past drone strikes have done to aircraft. The warning lands 17 months after a DJI Mini punched a hole in a Super Scooper over the Palisades…
U.S. Africa Command ran its CURTAIN CALL drone-swarm defense through a second field test at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California from April 27 to May 1, 2026, and this round added the threat the program was built to stop: a coordinated attack by several drones at once, not a single aircraft. What the command…
Russia's Monocrystal, a top sapphire supplier for missile and drone optics, files for bankruptcy after Ukrainian drone strikes, sanctions, and lost markets.
The U.S. Navy just ran a live exercise off Key West testing whether drones and AI can find, track, and engage suspected drug trafficking vessels in real time, as reported by the US Naval Institute. The exercise wasn’t a concept demonstration or a PowerPoint briefing. It was a working kill chain with real hardware, real…
United deleted drone strike from its Flight 1980 statement after Boeing 737 inspection found no damage. Brendan Schulman: "Balloons are red and shiny, too."
A small, low-cost FPV drone struck a U.S. Army HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter at a base in Baghdad, Iraq, in what appears to be the first confirmed successful drone attack on an American military aircraft, as reported by The War Zone. The U.S. military has no official comment yet, but the video says everything. What…
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