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Army Lethal FPV Drone Course Turns Soldiers into Sky Ninjas drones

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Pentagon Picks 25 Drone Makers for $150M “Gauntlet” Competition

Stay ahead of the curve with our breakdown of the Pentagon's $150M "Gauntlet" drone competition. Discover the 25 vendors selected for the Drone

Zachary PeeryFeb 10

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FPV Drones Steal the Show at the Winter Olympics

If you have been watching the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games and suddenly felt like you were riding inside a human missile on ice, no worries, nothing is wrong with your TV. That swooping, breath stealing, borderline illegal looking camera move is not a superhero with a steadicam. It is an FPV drone doing laps…

Rafael SuárezFeb 9

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Palladyne AI Flies IntelliSwarm for the First Time

Palladyne AI has announced through a press release the first successful flight of IntelliSwarm, its integrated autonomy stack

Rafael SuárezFeb 8

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Northside flies a RED Komodo cinelifter over the Matterhorn, and the footage is absolutely wild

Flying an FPV drone at 3,260 meters above sea level is one thing. Hauling 25 kilograms of cinema-grade drone gear up an icy alpine trail to get there is another thing entirely. Northside did both, strapping a RED Komodo worth over $10,000 to an 8-inch X8 cinelifter and sending it up the face of the…

Haye KestelooFeb 5

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface

Department of Defense

U.S. Marines Test Fiber Optic FPV Drones at Sea

The U.S. Marine Corps is rediscovering an old truth with a very modern twist. When the airwaves are hostile, unreliable, or outright weaponized, the smartest move might be to avoid them entirely. From January 27 to 29, 2026, I Marine Expeditionary Force, working with the Defense Innovation Unit, evaluated fiber optic FPV drones at Marine…

Rafael SuárezFeb 4

United States

Pentagon Pushes Low Tech Defenses Against Small Drones

First person view drones receive special attention in the guidance, and for good reason. FPV aircraft are fast, agile, difficult to track visually

Rafael SuárezFeb 3

DJI

FPV drone chases WRC rally car through the desert, and the footage is absolutely wild

The FIA World Rally Championship YouTube channel dropped a video titled “INSANE Rally Drone Footage,” and for once, the title isn’t clickbait. An FPV drone chases a World Rally Car through a desert stage at full speed, and it keeps up. Not for a few seconds. Not for a single corner. Mile after mile after…

Haye KestelooFeb 2

Russia

SpaceX implements Starlink speed limit to ground Russian strike drones in Ukraine

Two days after Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov thanked SpaceX for its “quick response” to Russian drones using Starlink connectivity, we’re now seeing the first concrete result: a speed-based kill switch. Starlink terminals are now displaying a “Movement speed is too high” error and cutting connectivity when they detect movement above approximately 75-90 km/h (47-56…

Haye KestelooJan 31

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