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DJI Brings Osmo Pocket 4P To Cannes On May 14, Mid-Film Festival
DJI has set the date and venue for the Osmo Pocket 4P reveal. The company posted matching teasers Monday from its global and Japan X accounts confirming a Cannes, France event on May 14, 2026 at 17:00 CEST. That date…
Pocket Camera War: Five New Cameras Hit at Once
The portable camera market apparently decided to have a group chat moment. In the span of a few weeks, five new pocket and compact cameras either launched, teased, or leaked their way into the conversation. If you create content alongside…
Vancouver Police Deploy DJI Matrice Fleet for FIFA World Cup 2026 Security
Vancouver Police Department officials confirmed they will use a robust drone program featuring DJI Matrice 400, Matrice 300, Matrice 30, and Matrice 4 series platforms to monitor crowd movements and support public safety operations during the FIFA World Cup 2026…
DroneShield and Terma Partner on Integrated Counter-UAS Solutions
DroneShield and Terma have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on layered counter-unmanned aerial systems technologies, as EDR Magazine reported. The partnership combines DroneShield’s AI-powered detection and electronic warfare capabilities with Terma’s advanced command-and-control software to deliver more effective…
U.S. Marines Get Three Weeks On FPV Drones As Pentagon Volume Gap With China And Russia Widens
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune has spent three weeks training pilots on first-person-view attack drones, with deployment imminent and adversaries already capable of producing millions of similar systems each year. The New York Times…
FBI Charges Former Michigan Scholar With Hiding His Chinese Military Drone Company From U.S. Customs
The FBI has charged Chuan Wang, a former University of Michigan visiting scholar, with lying to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers about his work as co-founder and chief technology officer of a Chinese company that builds drones for the…
Laredo Police Use RAVEN Drones to Locate Vehicle Burglary Suspect
Laredo Police Department officers arrested a 34-year-old man after he burglarized two vehicles early on May 6, with the RAVEN program drones playing a key role in locating him while he hid in nearby brush, as reported by LMT Online.…
Helsing Aims for $18 Billion Valuation in $1.2 Billion Dragoneer-Led Round
Helsing is in advanced talks to raise $1.2 billion at a valuation of about $18 billion, according to the Financial Times. The round would push the Munich-based defense AI company past most of Europe’s other private tech firms and cement…
Northrop Flies DARPA Hybrid-Electric XRQ-73 SHEPARD UAS
Northrop Grumman has successfully flown the XRQ-73 SHEPARD, a hybrid-electric flying-wing UAS developed for DARPA’s Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration program. The milestone flight took place in April 2026 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, after previous delays, as…
Waiv Robotics Unveils Autonomous VTOL Landing System for Ships
Waiv Robotics, a London-based maritime tech startup, has unveiled a gyro-stabilized platform that enables fully autonomous takeoff and landing of VTOL drones on moving vessels at sea, as reported by The Robot Report. The system works with existing drones without…
Russia’s GRU Drafted a Plan to Give Iran 5,000 Unjammable Fiber-Optic Drones for Use Against U.S. Forces, The Economist Reports
A confidential ten-page document prepared by the GRU, the intelligence directorate of Russia’s armed forces, proposed supplying Iran with 5,000 short-range fiber-optic drones of the type used in Ukraine, an unspecified number of satellite-guided drones equipped with Starlink terminals, and…
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Pro: Your Handheld Air 3S Is Almost Here
DJI has officially confirmed the Osmo Pocket 4 Pro is coming, and based on everything that has leaked so far, this is not an incremental update. The Pocket 4P, as DJI is calling it on Chinese social media, is a…
U.S. Army Merges Drones and Electronic Warfare at Fort Stewart
The U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division is training its Soldiers to fight in a world where a drone flying overhead and a jammer carried on your back are just as important as the rifle in your hands, as ARMY.MIL reported.…
FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM, DJI FCC Deadline Looms, and 218 Wildfire Drone Incursions in 2025
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I have five stories for you this week — it’s a longer one, but there’s a lot of important information packed in. FAA Files Long-Overdue Section 2209 NPRM First up, the FAA has…
The DJI Pocket 4 You Can’t Buy and the Clone You Might
DJI announced the Osmo Pocket 4 in April, and by every account it’s a beautiful little machine. Better dynamic range, 4K at 240 frames per second, improved photo quality. The kind of camera that makes your hands itch the moment…
DJI Confirms Osmo Pocket 4P With Coordinated Teaser, Dual-Lens Hardware Now Official
DJI broke its public silence on the Osmo Pocket 4P on Friday morning, posting coordinated teasers from its global and Japan X accounts that show the dual-lens hardware leakers have been describing for months. The DJI Global post pairs the…
Amazon Prime Air Targets Metro Atlanta As Walmart And Wing Already Own Georgia Skies
Amazon Prime Air Targets Central New York With 176-Square-Mile Drone Delivery Zone Around Clay
Amazon plans to operate Prime Air drone deliveries across a 176-square-mile (456 km²) area of Central New York from its Clay fulfillment center, the company told residents at a public information session in Syracuse on Wednesday evening. The proposed coverage…
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