EASA rules, U-space, and drone news across the continent.
Tytan Technologies, a Munich-based counter-drone startup, is preparing to open a new German factory capable of producing 3,000 autonomous interceptors per month, with production scheduled to start this August. CEO and co-founder Balázs Nagy confirmed the expansion to Defense News, pointing to sustained demand driven by the war in Ukraine. Tytan’s interceptors are already in…
DJI confirmed the launch of the Mic Mini 2S for July 2, 2026 at 8 p.m. local time, adding 14.5 GB of internal storage and 24-bit / 32-bit floating point recording to the smallest wireless microphone in the company’s audio line. The launch closes the biggest gap between the budget Mini line and DJI’s flagship…
The DJI Mavic 4 Pro Creator Combo is on sale on Amazon right now for $3,400. That’s down from its standard $3,999 retail price, a 15 percent discount that puts $600 back in your pocket. The sale covers the full Creator Combo with the RC Pro 2 controller, not the base kit. If you have…
Stark Defence, the Berlin startup that builds loitering munitions for the German military, closed a €500 million (roughly $570 million) funding round this week led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The deal values the two-year-old company at approximately €3.5 billion ($3.65 billion) and brings total capital raised to €660 million. Stark went…
EASA’s NPA 2026-103 would drop EU drone registration, training, and Remote ID to 100 grams, following the UK. Pros get lighter rules; hobbyists get squeezed.
The useful part is what that implies, because the real bottleneck in drone logistics has never been the flight alone, it has been the operational chain around it.
DJI has extended the existing C6 class certification on its Matrice 4D Series to cover standalone flights with the DJI RC Plus 2 Enterprise controller, removing the requirement that the aircraft launch from a DJI Dock 3 to fly compliant European BVLOS missions. The change applies to the Matrice 4D and 4TD running firmware version…
Thales and Renault Group rolled out a joint hybrid 4×4 tactical vehicle named 4 TROOP at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris-Nord Villepinte on June 15, designed to serve as a mobile command and control node for unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles operating around it. The platform is a civilian Renault chassis carrying a Thales…
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