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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

CiS ORKA drone landing in the ORKA Dock on the deck of a FLANQ Q-RECON 24 uncrewed surface vessel

Industry

CiS ORKA Dock Demand Outruns The 30-Person German Factory Behind The Moving-Deck Drone First

German drone maker CiS says European demand for its ORKA Dock and drone now exceeds what its 30-person Rostock factory can build.

Haye KestelooJul 27

Top-down drone view of Formula 1 cars sweeping through a corner during the 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix broadcast

FPV

Formula 1 Flies Its Drone Under The Sponsor Bridge At Hungarian GP And Nobody Blinked

Formula 1 used drone footage more aggressively, and more creatively, in today's Hungarian Grand Prix broadcast than in any race I have watched this season. Watching the Apple TV feed on Sunday, July 26, I counted drone angles woven into the live coverage from lap 3 onward, and two of them stopped me cold…

Haye KestelooJul 26

Ukraine

EU Launches Drone Alliance With Ukraine, Putting 18 Companies Behind A 2026 Joint Production Target

The European Commission has formally launched the EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance, pairing nine EU companies with nine Ukrainian manufacturers behind a joint drone and counter-drone production push targeting the end of 2026. The move turns months of bilateral defense-industrial deals into formal EU policy and puts companies like Quantum Systems and Vyriy on the founding board.

Haye KestelooJul 20

Europe

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