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Heligan Report Warns Counter-Drone Defenses Are Starved, But the Government Spending Numbers Tell a More Complicated Story
A consultancy report distributed this week puts a hard number on something drone operators have watched develop for two years: the money flowing into building drones dwarfs the money flowing into stopping them. The report’s author argues that imbalance has…
Ukraine’s Winged FPV Drones Just Hit a Russian Van 102 Kilometers Behind the Line
A Ukrainian quadcopter-type FPV drone struck a Russian UAZ “Bukhanka” van at a distance of 102 kilometers (63 miles) from the front, with no carrier aircraft launching it closer to the target. The strike was disclosed on May 26 by…
Colombia Arms DJI Matrice 300 Drones With Grenades
Colombia just acquired 3,744 grenades built to fall from drones, and the aircraft doing the dropping are off-the-shelf DJI Matrice 300 RTK quadcopters. The grenades are homemade by the state arms maker Indumil, and they’re already in service with the…
Congress Wants Sea Drones to Guard Army Boats
Congress wants the Army to put robot boats in the water to protect its manned ones. A new defense bill directs the Army to study using unmanned surface vessels as escorts for its watercraft, the boats that haul troops and…
Amazon Eyes a 176-Square-Mile Drone Zone in N.Y.
Amazon wants to turn 176 square miles of upstate New York into a drone delivery zone. The company is asking the town of Clay, near Syracuse, for permission to fly Prime Air deliveries out of an existing warehouse. If it…
A Walmart Drone Pad Is Now a Zoning Fight in N.C.
Walmart wants to park a drone launchpad in a North Carolina lot. More than 200 neighbors signed a petition to stop it. On Monday night, Lincoln County commissioners weighed whether the future of 23-minute delivery is worth the noise over…
Georgia Bets $550K on Drones to Stop School Shooters
Five Georgia high schools will soon keep drones waiting on charging pads, ready to fly at an attacker before police can reach the building. The state set aside $550,000 to test the idea this fall. The drones are piloted by…
Flock Safety Pushes Alpha Camera As The Sensor Arms Race In Police Drones Heats Up
Flock Safety is putting its camera front and center in a new round of marketing for the Alpha, the company’s American-made Drone as First Responder aircraft, with a slickly produced clip that frames the payload as carrying more sensors than…
GoPro Mission 1 Pro vs DJI Osmo Action 6: The Ways DJI Still Wins
North Dakota Cuts BVLOS Waivers From Years to 23 Days
Getting a beyond-visual-line-of-sight waiver from the FAA has long meant waiting years and hiring lawyers. North Dakota just made it take 23 business days. The state’s Vantis network, the first statewide BVLOS system in the country, has turned the biggest…
China Claims a Drone Swarm That Hunts Through Jamming
A Chinese research team of the Northwestern Polytechnical University says it has built a drone swarm that keeps hunting even after you jam its radios and blind its cameras. Their paper, published in China’s top aeronautics journal, claims a 100%…
Vivid Sydney Cancels All Drone Shows After Crash
Vivid Sydney just pulled the plug on every drone show left in its lineup. The trigger came Monday night, when roughly 89 drones dropped out of the sky during the festival’s Star-Bound performance at Cockle Bay. Eighty-three of them hit…
Lexar Professional Silver Plus 1TB Review: The microSD Card That Lives in My Drone Now
The Lexar Professional Silver Plus 1TB has quietly become the only microSD card I bother thinking about. It lives in my DJI Mini 5 Pro, and I fly for months without reaching for the bag of spares I used to…
Zipline Bets Nigeria Becomes Its Biggest African Market With 12 New Drone Hubs By 2028
Zipline plans to build 12 additional drone distribution centers across Nigeria by 2028, growing its network from three operational hubs to 15 and turning what began as a state-level vaccine pilot into a national logistics buildout. The California-based autonomous delivery…
Motorola Solutions Buys D-Fend For $1.5 Billion, Turning Counter-Drone Takeover Tech Into A Public Safety Product
Motorola Solutions agreed on Monday to buy Israeli counter-drone company D-Fend Solutions for $1.5 billion, putting radio-frequency drone-takeover technology directly into the hands of the same company whose 911 command-center software already runs in more than 60 percent of North…
GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: 61 Things You Need to Know After Two Months of Shooting
So, this here is a brand new GoPro Mission 1 Pro, and I’ve been putting it through its paces over the last month and a half across all sorts of different scenarios to figure out where it works well and…
DJI Mimo Share Codes: How to Easily Share Your Color, Editing, and Settings With Others
Good day, folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. Just a quick little video for you today. With a recent firmware update to the DJI Mimo app, they introduced a new feature called share codes. In its simplest form, share codes…
DJI Lito X1 Review After 30 Days: An Affordable Drone Packed With Advanced Features
Good day, folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. The DJI Lito has been out for about a month now, and I’ve had a good amount of time to fly it and test out some of its capabilities. And I think…
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