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Benjamin Biggs' Blackbird speed drone, the quadcopter that set the 626 km/h Guinness record in December 2025

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Ben Biggs Built The 626 km/h Blackbird On 14-Cell Packs Few Pilots Use

Benjamin Biggs has published the full build story of the Blackbird drone that took the Guinness quadcopter speed record at 626 km/h in December 2025.

Haye KestelooSep 21

Hand holding a quadcopter with four 3D printed radial impellers replacing propellers

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Quadmovr Flies A Drone On 3D Printed Impellers Instead Of Propellers

FPV builder quadmovr flew a quad on four PETG centrifugal impellers straight off the print bed. The files are free on MakerWorld, and a racer already flew them.

Haye KestelooSep 20

Drone Dominance Program seal on a trade show backdrop with two FPV attack drones on the table in front of it

Department of Defense

Neros Makes Both Pentagon Gauntlet II Boards As Skycutter Falls To 4th

Neros is the only company on both Gauntlet II leaderboards, Perennial Autonomy wins deep strike, and March champion Skycutter drops to fourth.

Haye KestelooSep 19

View from a Russian drone camera looking down on a paved road in Kherson, with pedestrians walking along it and a recording overlay showing REC, 1.5x zoom and a running timer

Legal

Yale Expert: Civilian Drone Builders Risk Losing Legal Protection

Two drone experts warn that civilians who build and move attack drones may forfeit noncombatant status, and the texts deciding it date to 2009.

Haye KestelooSep 15

Ukrainian FPV strike quadcopter hovering low over a forest track with a payload module on its back, illustrating Anthropic's report on Russian developers using Claude Code to build autonomous kamikaze drone swarm software

Ukraine

Anthropic Catches Russians Using Claude to Code Self-Targeting Drones

Anthropic says a freelance Russian team used Claude Code to build kamikaze drone swarm software that picks targets, including people, with no human veto.

Haye KestelooSep 12

A woman in a patterned headband raises the GoPro MISSION 1 PRO ILS with a Micro Four Thirds lens to her eye against a cloudy sky over a colonial old town, from GoPro's launch video.

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GoPro Calls The $700 ILS 'Available' A Day After Selling 90% Of Itself

GoPro says the 197-gram MISSION 1 PRO ILS is now available and pitches it at FPV pilots, one day after agreeing to sell 90% of itself to Starman.

Haye KestelooSep 2

US Army

US Army Throws 1,900 Drones at Its Own Paratroopers in Germany

The Saber Junction 26 opposing force fields 1,900 drones and new jammers against the 173rd Airborne, a week after the Army killed its drone battalion.

Haye KestelooAug 27

GoPro MISSION 1 PRO ILS compact cinema camera fitted with a Laowa 6mm T2.1 cine lens and variable ND filter, clamped to a blue-and-chrome speed-rail rig under a metal roof.

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GoPro's 197-Gram 8K Cinema Camera Takes MFT Lenses For $699.99, Manual Focus Only

GoPro's MISSION 1 PRO ILS is a 197-gram 8K cinema camera with a Micro Four Thirds mount at $699.99, no autofocus, and a real FPV cinelifter angle.

Haye KestelooAug 26

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