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MyDefence Opens Counter-Drone Factory in Oklahoma City
A Danish counter-drone company just planted its flag on American soil. MyDefence opened its U.S. manufacturing and innovation facility in Oklahoma City on February 26 — and the timing couldn’t be more deliberate, as Oklahoma Commerce reports. From Copenhagen to…
Skydio DFR Command Hits 10 Million Calls
Ten million calls for service. Let’s sink that in. 10,000,000 people needing help, reporting an emergency.That’s not a product milestone. That’s a proof of concept that just became undeniable. The Number That Changes the Conversation Skydio just announced that its…
LUCAS Attack Drone Sees First Combat in Operation Epic Fury, Turning Iran’s Own Shahed Design Against Tehran
Seven months after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a reverse-engineered Iranian drone at a Pentagon event and called it America’s answer to the Shahed-136, that drone flew in combat. In the early hours of February 28, 2026, the…
HMS Duncan Takes On Drone Swarms and Wins
Royal Navy warship HMS Duncan just survived a drone swarm attack off the Welsh coast. Controlled chaos, live firing, and a training exercise that felt anything but fake. One Ship. Multiple Threats. Zero Excuses. QinetiQ’s Sharpshooter exercise doesn’t mess around.…
U.S. MQ-4C Triton Disappears Near Iran
An American Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton reconnaissance drone vanished from radar on February 22 while flying near Iran, adding a new layer of tension to an already volatile region. The aircraft, registration 169660 and call sign OVRLD1, had taken off…
Pentagon Shoots Down Its Own $30M CBP Drone at the Texas Border and Still Has No Fix for the Coordination Failure That Caused It
A U.S. military high-energy laser destroyed a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) surveillance drone near Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday, February 26. The reason: CBP never told the Pentagon it was flying one. The military saw an unidentified aircraft…
Ukraine Destroys Shahed Drone Relay Stations in Belarus, Cutting Moscow’s Eyes Over Kyiv
The Shahed-136’s most dangerous feature was never its warhead. It was the mesh network quietly stitching dozens of drones together mid-flight, turning each surviving drone into a signal repeater for every other. Ukrainian signals intelligence just severed that network at…
Drone Operators Trained for Modern Combat at Fort Indiantown Gap
At Fort Indiantown Gap, the quiet February air is buzzing, not with helicopters, but with something smaller, sharper, and far more personal: drones. For ten days, as the National Guard reports, soldiers from across different units and specialties gathered to…
Oppenheimer’s $400 Billion Drone Market Forecast Bets Big on Defense, Names Ondas as Top Pick
I’ve been covering drone industry investment cycles for years, and every few months a new Wall Street note lands with a number big enough to make you do a double take. This one cleared that bar. Oppenheimer just put a…
China’s Wing Loong 2 Is Spoofing Transponder Signals Over the South China Sea in What Analysts Call a Taiwan Rehearsal
A Chinese military drone has been flying regular surveillance missions over the South China Sea since August while broadcasting false transponder codes that made it appear to be other aircraft entirely — including a sanctioned Belarusian cargo plane and a…
Enfield Weighs Police Drone Donation
A small town in Enfield is about to decide whether it wants a drone in the sky, and the debate sounds a lot like conversations happening across America right now. On Monday at 6 p.m., residents will gather at Whitney…
Shield AI’s V-BAT Already Has a Weapons Deal — So Why Is Co-Founder Brandon Tseng Still Arguing Against Armed Drones?
The V-BAT has flown more than 60 miles into Russian-controlled airspace through layered GPS jamming, spotted a Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system, and handed targeting data to HIMARS crews who destroyed it. That mission — pure intelligence, zero ordnance on the…
Algorithm Warfare Is Here: How $500 Commercial Drones Are Beating $5 Million Tanks and What the Pentagon Must Do Next
A soldier in a trench, wearing a $300 pair of FPV goggles and holding a hobbyist controller, can guide a commercial drone carrying a $500 payload into a $5 million tank. The math is brutal and it only moves in…
EASA Updates Official List of 66 EU-Approved Drones, With DJI Holding 26 Spots — And the Cx System May Change Soon
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has published its latest official list of drones approved for operation in the EU, covering 66 systems across the Open and Specific categories. The list is a practical reference, not a press release. If…
US Military Shoots Down CBP’s Own Drone Near Texas Border, Democrats Demand Independent Investigation
The Pentagon fired a high-energy laser at a drone near Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday — and destroyed it. The problem: it was a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone. CBP had not told the military it was flying…
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Leaks in Plain Sight
It finally happened. Not a blurry warehouse shot. Not a shadowy reflection in a Weibo comment section. We just got what might be the most polite leak in DJI history: the actual Quick Start Guide of the DJI Osmo Pocket…
Russian Drone Approaches French Carrier in Sweden
A Russian drone approached the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle while the warship was docked in Malmö, Sweden, during a strategic visit, according to United24 Media. The Swedish Armed Forces detected the unmanned aircraft and immediately deployed electronic warfare…
Fortem Lands $18M Army Counter-Drone Deal
The counter drone race just added fresh fuel. Fortem Technologies has secured a three year, $18 million contract with the U.S. Army to deploy its net based DroneHunter interceptors at Army sites worldwide, as TechBuzzNews reports. The award signals something…
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