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South Carolina Moves to Criminalize Prison Drone Drops
South Carolina lawmakers are closing a gap that’s been frustrating law enforcement for years. A bill dubbed the South Carolina Drone Regulation and Public Safety Act cleared a Senate committee unanimously this week, following a unanimous House vote last month,…
Vancouver Police Deploy DJI Matrice Fleet for FIFA World Cup 2026 Security
Vancouver Police Department officials confirmed they will use a robust drone program featuring DJI Matrice 400, Matrice 300, Matrice 30, and Matrice 4 series platforms to monitor crowd movements and support public safety operations during the FIFA World Cup 2026…
Waiv Robotics Unveils Autonomous VTOL Landing System for Ships
Waiv Robotics, a London-based maritime tech startup, has unveiled a gyro-stabilized platform that enables fully autonomous takeoff and landing of VTOL drones on moving vessels at sea, as reported by The Robot Report. The system works with existing drones without…
Russia’s GRU Drafted a Plan to Give Iran 5,000 Unjammable Fiber-Optic Drones for Use Against U.S. Forces, The Economist Reports
A confidential ten-page document prepared by the GRU, the intelligence directorate of Russia’s armed forces, proposed supplying Iran with 5,000 short-range fiber-optic drones of the type used in Ukraine, an unspecified number of satellite-guided drones equipped with Starlink terminals, and…
FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM, DJI FCC Deadline Looms, and 218 Wildfire Drone Incursions in 2025
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I have five stories for you this week — it’s a longer one, but there’s a lot of important information packed in. FAA Files Long-Overdue Section 2209 NPRM First up, the FAA has…
Amazon Prime Air Targets Central New York With 176-Square-Mile Drone Delivery Zone Around Clay
Amazon plans to operate Prime Air drone deliveries across a 176-square-mile (456 km²) area of Central New York from its Clay fulfillment center, the company told residents at a public information session in Syracuse on Wednesday evening. The proposed coverage…
Amazon Begins First UK Drone Deliveries In Darlington Under A Trial-Only Approval
Amazon Prime Air made its first UK parcel deliveries in Darlington, County Durham this week, the company’s first commercial drone operation outside the United States. The service runs as a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) trial through the end of 2026,…
New DIRT Program Trains Personnel on Grounded Drones
A Virginia-based counter-UAS training company has launched a program built around the part of a drone incident that most training programs skip entirely: what to do after the aircraft is on the ground. 38 Sierra announced Drone Incident Response Training,…
Missouri Drone Corridor Aims to Save Transplant Time
A small startup in Rolla, Missouri is building what may be the nation’s first rural health care drone corridor, and the clock it’s racing isn’t measured in minutes. It’s measured in whether an organ donor’s tissue reaches a matching recipient…
Navy Picks Insitu’s ScanEagle and Integrator for ISR
The U.S. Navy has selected Insitu to continue providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services to the Navy, Marine Corps, and other federal customers, as Sea Power Magazine reported. The award covers both the ScanEagle and Integrator platforms under a Contractor-Owned,…
Purdue Bets Big on AI to Automate the Skies
Purdue University just put its full weight behind a future where one drone pilot coordinates dozens of aircraft at once. The Indiana research powerhouse is expanding a cluster of AI and autonomy programs that could fundamentally reshape how drones operate…
Coast Guard Deploys Saildrone Vessels on Great Lakes This Summer
The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District is putting autonomous sail drones on the water starting this month. Running from May through October 2026, these uncrewed surface vehicles will patrol all five Great Lakes as part of a contract focused…