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Ontario Bans Chinese Drones For Sensitive OPP Work, Plans Broader Government Phase-Out
The Ontario government will ban the Ontario Provincial Police from using Chinese-made drones on highly sensitive operations and begin phasing out broader provincial government use of Chinese hardware, the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement announced on…
U.S. Navy Tests BlackSea GARC and Seasats Lightfish in Norway
The U.S. Navy is running an exercise called Arctic Sentry 2026 off the coast of northern Norway through May 24, putting unmanned surface vessels and underwater drones through their paces in cold-climate maritime operations. The two surface platforms identified in…
DJI FlyCart 30 Maps Timor-Leste Manganese 800 Meters Down
Estrella Resources has deployed a DJI FlyCart 30 heavy-lift quadcopter in Timor-Leste to fly a drone-mounted geophysical survey that can image manganese mineralization down to 800 meters (2,625 feet) below the surface, the kind of depth that until recently required…
DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise Saves Man in Dumpster at Minus 20
The Corman Park Police Service in Saskatchewan has deployed its DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise drone 37 times since receiving it in April 2025, and one of those deployments involved finding an intoxicated man who had crawled into a dumpster on…
CiS Unveils ORKA Dock, A Self-Operating Drone Hangar Built To Launch From Moving Uncrewed Boats
German autonomous aerial systems developer CiS unveiled the ORKA Dock at the Combined Naval Event in Farnborough on May 19, 2026, calling it the world’s first fully autonomous drone launch and recovery system that operates from a moving uncrewed surface…
Russian Drones Attack CNN Crew 14 Times On Ukraine’s ‘Road Of Life’
A CNN crew walking a short stretch of the Druzhkivka-to-Kostyantynivka supply road in eastern Ukraine survived at least 14 Russian drone attacks and close encounters during what was supposed to be an hour’s walk each way. The patrol took five…
The FAA Controls the Sky, But Can Cities Ban Your Backyard Drone?
This morning I was reading about another ridiculous state drone law that they’re trying to pass, and I felt like this video needed to be made. With recent world events and the restrictions on foreign-made drones that were just passed,…
DJI Avata 360 vs. DJI Avata 2: Which FPV Drone Should You Buy?
Good day, folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. A good question I’ve been asked in the last couple of weeks with the release of the Avata 360 is from people who are perhaps going to be purchasing their first DJI…
Why Fulshear PD Chose DJI Matrice 350 RTK Over Skydio X10
The Fulshear Police Department launched a Drone as First Responder program on April 6, 2026, and the platform doing the work is the DJI Matrice 350 RTK rather than the U.S.-built Skydio X10 that has become the default for many…
BAE, Anduril Shortlisted for UK Apache Wingman Drone
The UK Ministry of Defense announced on May 15 that BAE Systems, Anduril Industries, Tekever, and Thales UK have been shortlisted to develop autonomous drones that will fly alongside the British Army’s AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. The four firms will…
Flytrex Sky2 Doubles Past Rivals With 8.8-Pound Payload
Flytrex unveiled its new Sky2 delivery drone on Thursday, and the headline number is the payload: 8.8 pounds (4 kg), enough to carry two large pizzas, bread bites, and sodas in a single trip. That is roughly enough food for…
Bloomington Tests Skydio X10 DFR Drones for First Response
The City of Bloomington, Minnesota, will spend the next two weeks running a Drone as First Responder pilot using Skydio X10 aircraft and the Skydio Dock, the city announced on May 15. The testing period begins the week of May…
Australia Picks PteroDynamics Transwing VTOL for Navy Logistics
A U.S. drone company just landed its first international defense contract, and it came from a customer that has been thinking hard about how to keep ships supplied across the Pacific. PteroDynamics, a Colorado-based developer of autonomous VTOL aircraft, announced…
Autel Tells FCC The Drone Ban Rests On Secret Evidence And Borrowed Allegations Aimed At DJI
Autel Robotics filed a reply at the Federal Communications Commission arguing the agency added the company to its Covered List on the basis of classified material Autel was never allowed to see and technical complaints originally aimed at DJI. The…
DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo Drops to $1,099 on Amazon
The DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo dropped to $1,099 on Amazon over the weekend, which is $500 off the $1,599 list and at or near the lowest price it’s been since launch. I fly a Mini 5 Pro…
Amazon Prime Air Picks Baton Rouge For Summer MK30 Drone Delivery Launch
Amazon will launch Prime Air drone delivery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana this summer, putting between 12 and 20 MK30 drones into operation from a new facility near the company’s Cortana fulfillment warehouse. The service will deliver packages weighing up to…
DJI Lito X1 Matches Mini 5 Pro Camera Quality In UK Creator’s Blind Test, At Almost Half The Price
A blind side-by-side camera test from UK YouTube creator DM Productions concluded that the £369 DJI Lito X1 (no official US price; not sold in the United States) holds up against the £689 / $759 DJI Mini 5 Pro in…
Sentrycs Scout: Man-Portable Cyber-Over-RF Counter-Drone Kit
Sentrycs, the Israeli counter-UAS company acquired by ONDAS last year, debuted a new man-portable cyber-over-RF detector called Scout at SOF Week in Tampa earlier this month. The product compresses the company’s fixed-site detection and mitigation stack into a battery-powered handheld…
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