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The Air & Space Forces Association’s Gabriel Chapter in Northern Virginia just handed the Leesburg Civil Air Patrol squadron a concrete investment in its future: two professional-grade unmanned aerial systems and the curriculum to put them to work, as the AFA reported. The donation marks an expansion of how the Leesburg cadet program introduces young…
Northwestern State University’s ARGO Lab just ran its first drone training program for soldiers at Fort Polk, Louisiana. The two-day course took troops from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division through the fundamentals of UAS operations, flight planning, sensor work, and field maintenance, as reported by National Today. What the Training Covered JD…
Researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University’s (NPU) School of Civil Aviation in Xi’an, China have published what they describe as the world’s first open-source flight control system built specifically for bamboo-frame unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), releasing the software and hardware configuration files free to any developer worldwide. The paper appeared on February 28 in the journal…
There are drone racing tournaments, and then there is this one. The final of Kyiv Drone Racing took place in a hangar at the National Aviation University Kyiv Aviation Institute, with more than 30 teams and roughly 100 participants competing on drones built by one of Ukraine’s most consequential defense technology companies, as The Defender…
Russia is scaling its drone warfare program at a pace that should get the attention of anyone watching the Ukraine conflict. Deputy Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Anatoly Kontsevoy announced at a Federation Council meeting that the Russian Armed Forces plan to train more than 70,000 drone specialists this year, according to Voennoedelo.…
Warren County Community College has been quietly building one of the best drone training programs in America from a campus in Washington, New Jersey that most people in the industry couldn’t find on a map. Now it’s adding something no other higher education institution in the country currently offers at scale: a formal counter-drone security…
Six hundred students. A fake bioterrorism attack. A simulated explosion. And drones flying overhead until midnight for ten straight days. This is how America trains its next generation of emergency responders. A City Built to Burn, Flood, and Collapse Disaster City is not a metaphor. It is a real 52-acre facility in College Station, Texas,…
Sixteen teams of students aged 12 to 18 are descending on Utica, New York this Sunday for the 2026 U.S. Drone Soccer District II Championship, as Utica Phoenix reports. Glowing drones. A netted arena. Three-minute sets of full-contact aerial combat. Welcome to the fastest growing youth tech sport in America. What Drone Soccer Actually Is…
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