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101st Airborne launches Aerosonde drone at JRTC
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division launched a Textron Systems Aerosonde unmanned aircraft system during a Joint Readiness Training Center rotation at Fort Polk, Louisiana on April 9, 2026, as DVIDS reported. The deployment puts one of the Army’s leading…
Honeywell Puts Counter-Drone AI on a Long-Range VTOL
Honeywell Aerospace and California-based Odys Aviation have announced a collaboration to mount Honeywell’s SAMURAI counter-drone system on the Laila, a hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft built for long-range, runway-independent operations, as reported by UAS Weekly. The combined platform is designed to hunt…
FAA’s eIPP lets Wisk and Reliable Robotics fly commercial before certification, and that changes everything
The FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) is now doing something U.S. aviation regulators have never done: letting companies fly commercial missions with uncertified aircraft, then using the data to write the rules afterward. A detailed report from Aviation International…
Harvard Students Build Fixed-Wing VTOL Drone to Track Sperm Whales in Dominica
Two Harvard mechanical engineering seniors have built a fixed-wing VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) drone from scratch to help marine biologists locate sperm whales tagged with VHF (very high frequency) transmitters off the coast of Dominica, according to a project…
FirePoint’s $2.5 Billion UAE Deal Rejected Before It Could Begin
Ukraine’s anti-monopoly committee sent back an application for a $760 million acquisition of a 30% stake in FirePoint, the country’s top long-range drone and missile maker, according to a written response the committee gave to Reuters on April 8, 2026.…
General Cherry and Orqa Sign MoU to Build Counter-Drone Systems on European Soil
Ukraine’s General Cherry and Croatian drone manufacturer Orqa have signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly develop and manufacture interceptor drones and counter-drone systems in Europe, according to Unmanned Airspace. The agreement pairs General Cherry’s three years of live C-UAS…
Amazon Prime Air MK30 at XPONENTIAL Europe Düsseldorf: A Heavy Drone With a Crash Problem
Amazon Prime Air brought its MK30 delivery drone to XPONENTIAL Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany last week, where I spent considerable time with a company representative discussing the aircraft’s design. I came away with more questions than answers. The MK30 stands…
General Cherry Built Ukraine’s Counter-Drone Stack From Scratch. Now It’s Selling to the World.
The business card on the table at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf read “General Cherry / Vlad Polikashkin / Marketing Director.” The booth behind it was the largest standalone Ukrainian stand on the floor — backlit walls, Ukrainian military unit…
Ukraine’s Drone Industry Arrives in Düsseldorf, and It Has Receipts
Three years ago, Ukraine had almost no commercial drone manufacturing industry at scale. Today, I was walking the floor at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf — the leading European trade fair for autonomous technologies and robotics, running March 24–26 at…
Brazil Lets Delivery Drones Fly Over Cities Without Asking Permission First
Brazil just made drone delivery significantly less bureaucratic, which is not a sentence most people expected to write about any country’s aviation regulator, as AINONLINE reported. On March 16, ANAC, Brazil’s civil aviation authority, authorized Speedbird Aero to fly its…
America Keeps Buying Expensive Drones. China Keeps Building Millions of Cheap Ones.
A Substack analysis by Kate McKenna has been circulating hard in defense circles this week, and the numbers inside deserve a wider audience. Eleven MQ-9 Reapers downed in under two weeks. $330 million gone, lost to Iranian surface-to-air missiles and…
Jetson ONE Flies the California Coast and 115 Million People Watched
The inventor of the Jetson ONE took off from his driveway, flew over Pismo Beach surfers and straight over the pier, and landed in Grover Beach. MrBeast filmed it. The world noticed. From a Residential Driveway to the Pacific Ocean…