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A Flock Drone Now Guards Georgia’s Most Notorious Jail
The Fulton County Jail has been many things over the years: overcrowded, federally scrutinized, the subject of a consent decree, and home to one of the more infamous booking photos in recent American history. Now it’s also the site of…
Wing finally brings drone delivery to Bay Area residents, 14 years after being born there
Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, announced on Monday that it will expand residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company framed the move as a “homecoming,” since Wing was founded in the…
FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks — The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 2026, banned the import of all new foreign-made consumer wireless routers, adding them to its Covered List after a White House-convened interagency panel determined they pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could…
DJI Sues Insta360 Over Six Patents Three Days Before Avata 360 Launch
New Jersey College Adds Counter-Drone Training to Its Curriculum
Warren County Community College has been quietly building one of the best drone training programs in America from a campus in Washington, New Jersey that most people in the industry couldn’t find on a map. Now it’s adding something no…
Zipline Adds $200M to Series H, Bringing Total to $800M as Repeat Orders Drive Faster-Than-Expected Growth
Zipline has closed an additional $200 million on top of its Series H round, pushing the total to $800 million, TechCrunch reported. The new capital includes participation from crypto investment firm Paradigm and arrives ahead of schedule. “Things have moved…
Netherlands Becomes First NATO Nation to Embed Drone and Counter-Drone Units in Every Army Combat Formation — and Is Hiring 1,200 People to Do It
The Dutch army is about to become the most drone-integrated ground force in NATO. Starting in April, the Netherlands will begin recruiting between 1,000 and 1,200 military personnel to staff newly created drone and counter-drone units that will be embedded…
Aurex Opens 65,000 Square Feet of Secure Defense Manufacturing
Aurex, the Huntsville-based aerospace and defense company formerly known as Special Aerospace Services, has formally announced 65,000 square feet of secure manufacturing capacity across two facilities, one in Huntsville, Alabama and one in Denver, Colorado, built and ready now for…
Brazil Lets Delivery Drones Fly Over Cities Without Asking Permission First
Brazil just made drone delivery significantly less bureaucratic, which is not a sentence most people expected to write about any country’s aviation regulator, as AINONLINE reported. On March 16, ANAC, Brazil’s civil aviation authority, authorized Speedbird Aero to fly its…
DJI Matrice 400 And Zenmuse L3 Help Map Lost Maya Cities In Guatemala’s Jungle
A DJI Matrice 400 drone paired with the Zenmuse L3 LiDAR payload is now scanning the Mirador Basin in northern Guatemala, where archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen has spent 47 years documenting one of the densest concentrations of ancient Maya cities…
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,…
Drones Fly Into Fukushima’s Reactor and Find the Bottom
Fifteen years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, palm-sized drones have flown inside the Unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi and reached what engineers had been trying to see since the…
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…
2,000 Drones Drew BTS Over Seoul for Their Comeback
On the evening of March 20, two thousand drones lifted off over Ttukseom Hangang Park in northeastern Seoul and spent roughly 15 minutes painting the night sky with the faces of seven men who hadn’t performed together in almost four…
Skydio Wins $52 Million Army Order for Nearly 3,000 X10D Drones, the Largest Single-Vendor sUAS Purchase in U.S. Military History
The U.S. Army has placed an order exceeding $52 million with Skydio for nearly 3,000 X10D drones, the company announced today. It is the largest small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) procurement from a single vendor in Army history. The contract…
2nd Cavalry Scouts With Drones, Not Soldiers
In a forest near Grafenwöhr, Germany, the scouts of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are doing something that would have been science fiction to the cavalrymen who rode these same European roads eighty years ago, as 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment…
Army Taps Anduril for $20B AI Counter-Drone Framework
The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice software…
Ukraine’s Deep Strike Drone Campaign Stretches the Kill Zone to 150 Kilometers, Strangling Russia’s Rear Logistics
Ukraine’s drone forces have pushed the battlefield kill zone to roughly 150 kilometers behind the front line, a dramatic expansion from the 15 kilometers the Financial Times confirmed in February, according to The Telegraph (May 16, 2025, paywalled). Ukrainian drones…
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