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DJI Revokes Operator’s Certificate After Agricultural Drone Used to Lift Person 10 Meters Into the Air
An agricultural drone built to spray citrus trees got used to hoist a person more than 10 meters off the ground in Fengjie County, Chongqing. DJI identified the violation through its own inspection process and responded accordingly: the operator, identified…
FCC Exempts Four Foreign Drone Models From Import Ban as DJI Court Battle Continues
Our earlier report today confirmed the news: the FCC has removed the first four drone systems from its “Covered List.” What that report didn’t have space to unpack is the regulatory logic behind the timing and the specific manufacturers chosen.…
Beyond Drones: How a 7,000-Unit Vacuum Hack is Fueling the DJI Ban
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a hawkish national security think tank with a documented history of opposing Chinese technology in U.S. markets, has filed a formal response with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging the agency to reject…
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…