FPV

Freestyle, cinewhoops, racing, and the goggles-on world of first-person-view flight.

323

Articles

Beats covered

Reporters on beat

Oct 5

Last updated

Ukraine

Terra Drone Invests in Ukraine’s Amazing Drones and Launches Terra A1 Interceptor to Target the Global Defense Market

Terra Drone Corporation has announced a strategic investment in Ukraine-based Amazing Drones LLC and the joint launch of a new interceptor drone called the Terra A1, according to a company announcement. The deal was structured through Terra Drone’s subsidiary Terra Inspectioneering and combines a capital stake with a full business alliance. Terra Drone formally entered…

Haye KestelooApr 8

Ukraine's Drone Industry Arrives in Düsseldorf, and It Has Receipts

Europe

General Cherry and Orqa Sign MoU to Build Counter-Drone Systems on European Soil

Ukraine’s General Cherry and Croatian drone manufacturer Orqa have signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly develop and manufacture interceptor drones and counter-drone systems in Europe, according to Unmanned Airspace. The agreement pairs General Cherry’s three years of live C-UAS combat knowledge with Orqa’s established production infrastructure in Croatia. Joint manufacturing facilities ar

Haye KestelooApr 7

FPV

FPV Drone Strikes U.S. Black Hawk at Baghdad Base

A small, low-cost FPV drone struck a U.S. Army HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter at a base in Baghdad, Iraq, in what appears to be the first confirmed successful drone attack on an American military aircraft, as reported by The War Zone. The U.S. military has no official comment yet, but the video says everything. What…

Rafael SuárezApr 6

Antigravity A1

DJI Avata 360 vs. Antigravity A1: Don’t buy until you watch this

Today, we’re comparing two of the most interesting drone releases in the past few years. On one side, we have the DJI Avata 360, DJI’s first ever panoramic drone designed to combine FPV flying with full 360-degree capture. And on the other side, we have the Antigravity A1, the first mainstream 8K 360 drone that…

Mihail SvilenovApr 4

Ukraine

Ukrainian Students Race Combat Drones in Kyiv. The Winner Flew It in 36 Seconds.

There are drone racing tournaments, and then there is this one. The final of Kyiv Drone Racing took place in a hangar at the National Aviation University Kyiv Aviation Institute, with more than 30 teams and roughly 100 participants competing on drones built by one of Ukraine’s most consequential defense technology companies, as The Defender…

Rafael SuárezApr 3

Russia

While TechEx Was in Düsseldorf, Russian Intelligence Was Bugging Its Chief Engineer’s Office

On the day TechEx showed its unjammable fiber-optic FPV drones in Düsseldorf, Russia’s intelligence was bugging their chief engineer’s office back in Ukraine.

Haye KestelooMar 27

Ukraine

Ukraine’s Fiber Optic FPV Drones Now Switch to Radio When the Cable Snaps

The Ukrainian military has tested an FPV (First-Person View) drone that carries both fiber optic and radio control channels at once, giving operators a live fallback the moment the fiber cable breaks or loops mid-flight. Tetyana Chornovol, a Ukrainian journalist, current Verkhovna Rada MP, and Armed Forces platoon commander, disclosed the development on March 22,…

Haye KestelooMar 23

Ukraine

Ukraine’s Madyar Brovdi Outpaces Russia’s Recruitment: $878 Per Kill, 400-to-1 Exchange Rate

Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, is bleeding Russia’s army faster than Moscow can replace it. A detailed profile published today in The Economist reveals that December 2025 was the first month in four years of war when verified Russian losses to Ukrainian drones exceeded Russian recruitment. Since the start of winter,…

Haye KestelooMar 23

FPV

The drone industry moves fast. Stay ahead of it.