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BRINC added live wildfire detections and smoke coverage to its LiveOps software at no additional cost, shipping the feature days after an engineer prototyped it. The layers run on NOAA satellite data that the agency itself labels strategic guidance rather than tactical fire intelligence.
ThinkOn and AVSS are hosting TAK on Canadian sovereign cloud, with live drone video piped in. The data residency case is real. The 'until now' is not.
GoPro's new Niagara Falls reel was shot on a MISSION 1 PRO strapped to FPV Evan's drone. The airspace is restricted on both sides of the border.
Avidrone Inc. won the DARPA Lift Challenge at a 3.84:1 payload-to-weight ratio with the Katana, a conventional single-rotor helicopter, and because nobody reached 4:1, the half-prize clause DroneXL reported last week cut every podium payout in two. The result says as much about energy density and American drone policy as it does about lift.
Camera footage shows the Leipzig drone flew straight into the wing of a Ukrainian An-124, and the bus driver never kicked it out of the air. DroneXL corrects Sunday's report as DNA on the drone matches the 2024 DHL parcel attack and a record in Lithuania, and an American EchoShield radar goes up at the airport.
Sen. John Kennedy told the FCC's own lawyer the agency scares him. He meant television. Drone pilots staring down Docket 26-189 know the feeling.
Cameras on the Royal Navy's K3 Scout sea drones sent heartbeat signals to a Chinese IP address. Kraken says the units were NDAA-compliant.
Six drone overflights hit the Bundeswehr base at Mechernich, believed to be the only Patriot repair facility in Europe, two nights after the Leipzig drone bomb. One drone circled above the police officers sent to investigate, and none of the aircraft was stopped.
Correction: Camera footage shows the Leipzig drone struck the wing of a parked Antonov An-124 and fell to the ground without detonating. The bus driver found it and pinned it under his foot. He never kicked it out of the air, contrary to the lawmaker account this article reported.
DJI is urging drone operators to file FCC comments before September 2 as the agency weighs cutting off imports and sales of previously approved drones with thermal, LiDAR, spray, and docking capabilities.
Two Primoco UAVs took turns carrying mobile base stations over a Czech protected landscape, holding a 7.7 square mile coverage zone at up to 100 Mb/s on standard phones and standard frequencies.
Three NCSIST Mighty Hornet III attack drones flew a coordinated autonomous search under Shield AI's Hivemind — built and operated by Taiwanese engineers who reached independence in under three months.
DJI opened reservations for the Osmo 360 II in China on August 7 and confirmed an August 13 launch. Swappable lenses answer the first generation's loudest complaint — and the US still has no price or date.
Amazon's first drone delivery operation outside the United States flies from Darlington under a CAA trial permission that expires at the end of 2026. What the British regulator decides in December shapes where Prime Air flies next in Europe.
An Everdrone drone delivered a defibrillator before the ambulance at a Borås cardiac arrest. A bystander shocked the man's heart back, and he survived.
A FOIA release names 1,000+ agencies the FAA cleared for drone first responder flights in 10 months, more than in the previous seven years combined.
Cleveland Clinic and Zipline completed their first prescription drone deliveries in Beachwood, Ohio, as Zipline says U.S. flights now top 70% of its daily volume.
Investigators confirm Semtex and PETN in the Leipzig drone bomb, which slipped past airport defenses and sat unseen beside a Ukrainian An-124 for four hours.
More than 700 drones seized at the FIFA World Cup, Spokane wildfire incursions ground firefighting aircraft, and DoorDash Air wins FAA Part 135 approval.
Satellites that spot a classroom-sized fire and pilotless water bombers like Marcos Aerospace's Quencher point one way: the first 30 minutes of a wildfire belong to unmanned aircraft.
A Russian FPV drone chased 52-year-old vegetable seller Yurii around his van in Kherson, then detonated. The UN called this campaign a crime against humanity in 2025.
I tested the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P and Pocket 4 side by side — D-Log 2 dynamic range, the 3x tele camera, ActiveTrack 8, and which one you should buy in 2026.
Newberg-Dundee police and Yamhill County deputies have flown drones since 2022 — a 10-aircraft combined DJI fleet that clears buildings ahead of officers and ends foot pursuits with thermal at 400 feet. No ribbon cuttings, no controversy, just standard equipment.
A PolAir Remote drone flown from Bankstown Airport — 300 miles away — spotted a woman leaving a shed during a welfare check in Moree, leading to her arrest for breaching a domestic violence order. Australia's first remotely piloted police drone trial keeps converting flights into arrests.
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