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A dense flock of European starlings swirling against a purple dusk sky above a tower

Counter-Drone

NATO Jet Scrambled, Vilnius Airport Closed. It Was a Flock of Birds

A NATO jet scrambled and Vilnius airport shut for 38 minutes over a radar contact that turned out to be birds. Poland made the same call eight days ago.

Haye KestelooSep 13

Leipzig-Halle Airport check-in terminal exterior

Leipzig Drone Bomb

Germany Plans To Let Utilities Fight Off Drones After Leipzig Bomb

Germany plans nine-city counter-drone units and a law letting power and water companies actively fend off drones, five weeks after the Leipzig bomb.

Haye KestelooSep 7

DJI Power

DJI Power 2000 Now Plugs Into Your Wall Socket. Not in America

DJI put the Power 2000 on stage at IFA 2026 as a grid-tied home battery with its first balcony solar kit. US buyers get none of it.

Haye KestelooSep 4

DJI

DJI Osmo 360 II Goes Global at IFA, Skips America a Second Time

DJI priced the Osmo 360 II at €589 and £509 for a September 15 release across Europe. The FCC-cleared camera still has no US price or date.

Haye KestelooSep 3

A WB Electronics FlyEye fixed-wing reconnaissance drone suspended above a WB Group trade-show stand, gimbal camera under the nose.

Poland Plant Fire

Poland Probes Sabotage After Fire At Drone Plant Supplying Ukraine

A figure on camera, a fire at 12:23 a.m., and Poland's ABW at the plant that builds drone parts for Kyiv and Warsaw.

Haye KestelooAug 31

Four German officials stand behind a DLR lectern marking the Drone Security Technology Center at the opening ceremony in Cochstedt

Leipzig Drone Bomb

Germany Opens Counter-Drone Test Center After Leipzig Explosive Drone

Germany opened the DLR Drone Security Technology Center at Cochstedt airport two weeks after an explosives-laden drone struck a Ukrainian An-124 at Leipzig.

Haye KestelooAug 19

Yellow quadcopter delivery drone hovering against a clear sky while lowering a white parcel box on a winch line

Drones for Good

Everdrone AED Drone Beats the Ambulance in Sweden, and a Bystander Restarts a Man's Heart

An Everdrone drone delivered a defibrillator before the ambulance at a Borås cardiac arrest. A bystander shocked the man's heart back, and he survived.

Haye KestelooAug 7

Ukraine's Brave1 defense tech pavilion at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf

NATO

Brave1 and NATO Open the €10 Million Counter-Drone Grant Window, and It Slams Shut Monday

Brave1 and NATO opened applications on July 28 for UNITE-Brave NATO, the first joint Ukraine-NATO innovation grant program. Teams chasing €10 million in counter-drone and air defense grants have until Monday, August 3 to file on Prozorro.

Haye KestelooJul 31

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