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Taiwan Civilians Learn Drones to Counter China
Pan Chien-chin had never piloted a drone before May 2026. The 48-year-old food company worker walked into a small classroom in Taipei, picked up a sub-100-gram Taiwanese-built quad, and spent the afternoon learning to fly it by hand and eye…
DJI Matrice 300 RTK Found Hidden Hotspots in Clarkson Apartment Fire
A three-story apartment complex caught fire near SUNY Brockport in Clarkson, New York, and the fire moved through the attic faster than crews expected. When Brockport Fire Chief Adam Leggett looked up at the height of the building and realized…
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…
Walmart and Wing Add Seven Markets, Putting Two Drone Operators on a Collision Course in Memphis
Walmart and its drone partner Wing named seven new metro areas for their delivery network on June 10, and one of those cities should sound familiar to anyone who read DroneXL earlier today. Memphis is on the list. So is…
Amazon Brings Prime Air to Memphis With a Meet-and-Greet, Not a Launch Date
Amazon parked an MK-30 delivery drone inside the Renasant Convention Center on Tuesday and invited Memphis residents to meet it. The company calls the service Prime Air, and the pitch was familiar: packages up to five pounds, delivered in two…
SkyFall’s AI Interceptors Hunt Shaheds Without a Pilot’s Eyes, and Ukraine Knows the Risk It Is Taking
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer called SkyFall has flown artificial intelligence into the one job interceptor pilots could never do fast enough: spotting an incoming Shahed before the human eye registers it. At a launch site in a central Ukrainian pine…
What Three Illinois Spray Drone Operators Actually Fly
Ag spray drones have moved from novelty to revenue stream in the U.S. Corn Belt, and the operators flying them have strong opinions about which platforms hold up over a full season. Prairie Farmer recently spoke with three Illinois custom…
Handala Claims an FBI Drone Hack and a World Cup Threat. The Proof Fell Apart Fast.
An Iran-linked hacker group called Handala claims it breached FBI first-person view (FPV) drones and used that access to threaten teams at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which opened June 11 across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The SITE…
Drones Are Lighting China’s Fields for Night Harvest
Picture a wheat field in Anhui Province at midnight, lit up like a stadium. The light isn’t coming from towers on the ground. It’s hanging in the air, bolted to a drone that hasn’t landed in hours and doesn’t plan…
Memphis Police Fly Skydio, Parrot, and DJI Together
A Memphis police drone tracked a suspect into a black Audi and logged the license plate before officers ever reached the scene. That arrest is the headline. The detail that caught my eye sits in the background of the footage.…
Navy Surface Drone Pulls Two Apache Crew From the Strait of Hormuz in the First Sea-Drone Rescue the U.S. Military Has Ever Run
An unmanned U.S. Navy boat found two downed Army aviators in the water off Oman on Monday evening and brought them home, the first time an autonomous surface vessel has rescued American military personnel. The two crew of a U.S.…
Shield AI V-BAT Severs Romanian Officer’s Fingers as Reuters Documents 50-Plus Crashes
A Romanian Navy official lost two fingers and fractured a third on May 12 when her hand was caught in the propeller of a Shield AI V-BAT drone during a training exercise on a boat off the Texas coast. Romania’s…