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FCC Removes First Four Drones From Covered List After Department of War Clears Them on National Security
The process the FCC built into its foreign drone ban is finally producing results. On March 18, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List to remove four UAS and UAS-related systems following a formal national security determination from…
Drone Drops Knives, Drugs, and a Cell Phone Into New York State Prison, Fueling Push for Hochul’s Anti-Drone Law
At 1 a.m. on a Saturday, a drone flew into the secured grounds of Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York and released a package between two dormitory buildings. Guards found it before any inmate did. The wires sticking out…
Russia Is Giving Iran Satellite Data and Upgraded Shahed Drone Tech, WSJ Reports. The Kremlin Calls It Fake News.
The bidirectional hardware pipeline we first confirmed in March — Russian military navigation systems turning up inside Iranian drones — now has a much more explicit paper trail behind it. The Wall Street Journal reported on March 17, 2026, citing…
FAA & Photojournalist Rob Levine: The DHS Drone Ban Just Got Its First Federal Court Challenge
Minneapolis-based photojournalist Rob Levine filed a petition for judicial review Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, directly challenging NOTAM FDC 6/4375 — the FAA security notice that bans all drone flights within 3,000 feet…
Ukraine’s Sting Drone Is The Most Wanted Weapon In The Gulf. Ukraine Can’t Legally Sell It Yet.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Saudi Aramco was in talks with Wild Hornets to buy Sting interceptor drones for its oil infrastructure. Wild Hornets denied it the same day. Both statements are true — and the gap…
Parallel Flight Firefly Clears FAA Hurdle, Heads to Market
California’s Parallel Flight Technologies just received the regulatory green light that changes everything for the company. The FAA has granted the Firefly heavy-lift drone a Section 44807 exemption, authorizing commercial operations in U.S. airspace, as UAVHQ reported. This is not…
16 Teams Battle for Drone Soccer Title at SUNY Poly
Sixteen teams of students aged 12 to 18 are descending on Utica, New York this Sunday for the 2026 U.S. Drone Soccer District II Championship, as Utica Phoenix reports. Glowing drones. A netted arena. Three-minute sets of full-contact aerial combat.…
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could Let One Person Command a Drone Swarm
The Chinese PLA demonstrated what a single operator directing 200 fixed-wing drones looks like in January. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is now warning that with AI, that number could scale by orders of magnitude — and the operator count could…
Fedorov’s Gamble: Can Open-Source Battlefield Data Defeat Russian Jamming?
The footage is brutal and specific: FPV drones diving on vehicles as drivers swerve, soldiers leaping from trenches and hurling objects at incoming munitions. I’ve watched hundreds of these clips over the past three years of covering this war. Now…
Trump Family’s Drone Portfolio Reaches $750 Million as Pentagon Scales Up Procurement
Bloomberg has put a dollar figure on what we’ve been tracking for months: the Trump family’s drone investment portfolio, held through a Texas-based firm called American Ventures, is worth nearly $750 million across three Florida-based companies, all of which are…
The Sky is Watching: ICE’s Skydio Drones and the “Metro Surge” Fear in Minneapolis
There is a version of this story that is just about drones in the sky over Minnesota. The actual version is about what those drones mean to the people looking up at them. Minnesota Public Radio reports that drone sightings…
DJI Avata 360 Launch Date and 8K Resolution Confirmed, SkyeBrowse Update, and $5,000 Reward for Stolen Military Drones
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. First off, DJI officially announces the Avata 360 launch date and the 8K resolution. We have another SkyeBrowse update. And then finally, a $5,000 reward…
