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South Korea Seeks Drone Detection Fix After NK Incident
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered a sweeping review of the country’s drone detection and monitoring systems after multiple unmanned aircraft allegedly crossed into North Korean airspace, raising fears that civilian drone activity could accidentally spark a military…
Pentagon Moves Toward Counter Drone Marketplace
The Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has taken an early step toward creating an online marketplace for counter drone technology with its first acquisition under the Replicator 2 effort, as Air and Space Forces reports. The task force, which…
House Homeland Security Chair Calls Drones a “New, Growing Frontier” of Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The same week DHS announced its permanent counter-drone office and FEMA began distributing $500 million in C-UAS grants, the House Homeland Security Committee held an oversight hearing that spelled out exactly why the federal government is treating drones as a…
FAA Adds Two New UAS Test Sites, NOAA Deploys Weather Drones, and SiFly Partners with Taranis for Crop Intelligence
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. The FAA is adding two new UAS test sites. NOAA is officially using drones for daily weather forecasting. And SiFly and Taranis are teaming up…
China vs. Ukraine: FT Investigation Exposes Beijing’s Dual-Track Drone Strategy That Leaves Kyiv Behind
Chinese component suppliers are scheduling factory visits to ensure Ukrainian and Russian drone buyers never meet in the same building. That detail alone tells you everything about Beijing’s actual position in this war. A major Financial Times investigation published January…
Sterling Heights Brings Axon-Skydio DFR Program to Detroit Metro, Funded Entirely by Federal Forfeiture
The photo shows a Skydio drone hovering over a dock outside the Sterling Heights Police Department. It’s a familiar sight in 2026, but not in Michigan, where automated drone response has been slow to take hold despite the state’s heavy…
UK Ministry of Defence invests £240,000 in drone degree as Army confronts artillery’s decline
When I first covered the NMITE drone degree announcement last month, the funding details were conspicuously absent. Now we have numbers. The Ministry of Defence has committed £240,000 to what officials are calling the UK’s first “drone degree,” with enrollment…
Zipline’s $7.6B Bet: The Economics of Delivering Burritos vs. Saving Lives
The Verge’s Tim Stevens stood on a lawn in Rowlett, Texas last year and watched a strange-looking craft clear the trees, hover overhead, and lower a brown paper package on a thin rope. His lunch had arrived by drone. The…
Zipline reaches $7.6 billion valuation as Valor Equity Partners leads $600 million funding round
Watching Zipline’s trajectory from a Rwanda-based medical delivery startup to America’s largest autonomous delivery network has been one of the defining stories in commercial drone aviation. The company just reached a $7.6 billion valuation with a $600 million funding round…
DJI Matrice 400 Gains Delivery Mode in New Firmware
DJI has released a new firmware update for the Matrice 400, pushing the industrial drone deeper into logistics, inspection, and precision operations. The new Firmware version v16.01.08.06, released on January 19, 2026, introduces new task modes, sensor improvements, and a…
Russia’s Shahed Production Surge: Ukraine’s Top Commander Warns of 1,000 Drones Per Day by 2026
The numbers from Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi are stark: Russia currently produces 404 Shahed-type drones daily and plans to more than double that capacity to 1,000 units per day. That production target, revealed in an interview published Sunday…
DJI Agras Meets an 82-Year-Old Farmer: China’s ‘Hardcore Grandma’ Proves Age Is No Barrier to Agricultural Drone Mastery
The 15-kilogram battery pack would give most pilots pause. For Dai Shuying, an 82-year-old farmer from eastern China’s Anhui province, it’s just another component she learned to install after watching her grandson operate what she initially called an “iron lump.”…