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White Manna delivery drone with four spinning rotors and a Made in USA flag on its fuselage, shown side-on against a black background

Manna Aero

Manna Adds Two East Tulsa Drone Bases Rated for 'Thousands' a Week

Manna is opening two east Tulsa drone bases and says each can handle thousands of deliveries a week. On launch hours, its own rate caps each at 768.

Haye KestelooOct 6

Gray DJI Mini 3 drone held in one hand, arms unfolded, camera and gimbal facing the lens, MINI 3 printed on the right arm

Deal

DJI Mini 3 Hits $269 for Prime Big Deal Days, Matching Its June Low

Amazon has the DJI Mini 3 at $269 for Prime members through October 7, $150 off list and level with its June low. The Fly More Combo is $600.

Haye KestelooOct 6

Amazon

Amazon Drones Buzz Cleveland Heights Homes. The Mayor Wants Them Moved

Cleveland Heights Mayor Jim Petras will ask Amazon whether drone routes can shift to commercial areas. Amazon moved some Texas flights in February.

Haye KestelooOct 6

A black pickup truck marked ACS carries a turret-mounted machine gun and a tan radar panel in the Arizona desert, with smoke drifting from the gun barrel.

Counter-Drone

US Military Counts 378 Border Drone Incursions In 30 Days, And Rising

The military detected 378 drones on the US-Mexico border in a month and says the trend is rising, as 21 firms tested counter-drone gear in Yuma.

Haye KestelooOct 6

White Airspection VTOL drone with wings and a tail rotor flying over a sandy beach with a row of offshore wind turbines on the horizon

BVLOS

Airspection Drone Skips the Boat on BVLOS Run to UK Wind Farm

Glasgow's Airspection flew a shore-launched drone 8.7 miles round trip to a Liverpool Bay wind farm beyond line of sight in the UK CAA's BVLOS sandbox.

Haye KestelooOct 6

US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber taking off with afterburners lit, spraying water off a runway lined with autumn trees

Department of Defense

Feared Iran Drone Attack Sent All 12 US B-1s Home From RAF Fairford

US and British officials say a feared IRGC drone attack, which some liken to Ukraine's Spiderweb raid, led the US to pull all 12 B-1s from RAF Fairford.

Haye KestelooOct 6

White DJI Neo 3 drone with spoked propeller cages beside a blue-grey DJI RC Mini controller with a built-in screen on a wooden table

LEAK

DJI Neo 3 Unboxing Video Leaks, and the Battery Slots Are Real

Leaked DJI Neo 3 unboxing: an RC Mini with a screen, three batteries, a charging hub, and the slotted battery packs DroneXL doubted in September.

Haye KestelooOct 6

Two men signing documents at a table draped in a black Zing Drone Solutions cloth, under a banner reading Oregon Defense Tech Basecamp

Remote ID

Zing Drone Solutions Tests Korean Radios as FCC Bars Foreign Parts

Zing is testing radio modules from Seoul's NUCODE for smaller Remote ID hardware, but the FCC Covered List makes no exception for an ally's parts.

Haye KestelooOct 6

DJI Neo drone resting on an open palm with a river and trees behind it

Deal

DJI Neo Hits $139 on Amazon While DJI's Own Store Is Sold Out at $169

The DJI Neo is $139 on Amazon for Prime Big Deal Days, matching its lowest price ever, while DJI's own store shows it at $169 and out of stock.

Haye KestelooOct 6

DJI Enterprise

DJI Certifies First Benelux Dealer for Europe-Only Mapping Training

Drone Parts Center in Nivelles, Belgium, is the first Benelux dealer certified for DJI's GEO training. Matrice 4E and Zenmuse L3 courses now open.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Gray Skydio X10 drone with a three-sensor camera gimbal hovering low over a green field with trees behind it

DFR

Lakeland's $22M Axon Deal Adds Drones, Taps Immigration Grant

Lakeland OKs a $21.98M, 10-year Axon deal with Drone as First Responder flights. An immigration grant is applied to its first two years. Money itemized.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Hand holding a small black carbon quadcopter with four white tri-blade propellers over a grass field

FPV

Quadmovr Flies A 160 Gram 5-Inch Drone By Eye, No Camera, No GPS

Two weeks after his impeller video passed 1.6 million views, quadmovr is back with a 117 gram dry 5-inch quad flown line of sight in acro mode.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Entrance canopy of the FBI campus at Redstone Arsenal with large blue lettering reading Federal Bureau of Investigation, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, above five guard booths

Counter-Drone

FBI Drone School to Double Capacity After 700 World Cup Seizures

DOJ's No. 3 says the FBI's Redstone Arsenal counter-drone school will more than double capacity. It is the only gate to new police drone takedown powers.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Flock Safety Alpha drone lifting off from its white rooftop dock inside a fenced enclosure, city skyline behind

Police

Warwick Police Flock Drone Waits On T.F. Green's Zero-Foot FAA Grids

Warwick, RI's $150,000 Flock Alpha police drone has a BVLOS waiver but no airport airspace approval. FAA facility map grids at T.F. Green read 0 feet.

Haye KestelooOct 5

A man holds a white and green 3D-printed blended wing body model aircraft at a grass airfield while a second model flies overhead

Video

Ramy RC Crashes Five Natilus Horizon Models Before One Finally Lands

Ramy RC's 24-foot Natilus Horizon prototype is still grounded. Five 3D-printed models crashed before one landed at JetPower. He explains what went wrong.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Bundeswehr soldier in camouflage and balaclava holding a controller while a gray quadcopter hovers above him over a field

Germany

Germany Builds 600-Soldier Drone Regiment as US Army Scraps Its Own

Germany will stand up a 600-soldier drone regiment in 2027 with a 500 km reach and its own jammers, weeks after the US Army ended a same-size unit nearby.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Federal Aviation Administration headquarters at 800 Independence Avenue SW in Washington, D.C., with the Orville Wright Federal Building sign in front

FAA

FAA Puts $12 Million Into Drone Test Sites as Part 108 Sits Unsigned

The FAA awarded $12 million to 19 drone research projects at its nine test sites. Congress mandated the money in 2024, and Part 108 is still unsigned.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Soldiers in camouflage salute as flag-draped transfer cases sit in the open backs of gray vans on an airfield

Department of Defense

Wounded Port Shuaiba Soldiers Tell AP the Army Left Them to Find Care

Nine soldiers wounded in Iran's March 1 Port Shuaiba strike tell AP the Army sent them to barracks, logged them as not combat wounded and delayed TBI care.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Gray blueflite cargo drone hovering low over a mown field with its winch hooks hanging beneath the fuselage, tree line behind

Drone Delivery

Munson Medical Drones Fly Again Oct. 6, Five Months After DroneUp Quit

Munson Healthcare and blueflite fly phase two of Michigan's medical drone trial Oct. 6 to 30 in Traverse City, five months after operator DroneUp quit.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Aerial view of Lumen Field in Seattle lit up at night with the downtown skyline and Elliott Bay behind it

FAA

FAA Warns NFL Drone Pilots After 700 World Cup Seizures Didn't Deter

The FAA is calling every NFL game a No Drone Zone with $100,000 fines. The same warnings ran before the World Cup, and the FBI still seized more than 700 drones.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Wing hybrid delivery drone in flight carrying a blue Walmart-branded package box beneath its fuselage

Drone Delivery

Wing Picks Denver for Walmart Drones. Two Suburbs Already Froze Hubs

Wing and Walmart name Denver and Seattle for 2027 drone delivery. Both metros surfaced in city permits first, and two Denver suburbs have paused hubs.

Haye KestelooOct 5

A blue, white and gold VISA hot air balloon floats in a clear blue sky above a multi-lane road and roadside businesses in Albuquerque.

FAA

FBI's Balloon Fiesta No Drone Zone Runs On A Clock: 10.5 Hours A Day

FBI counter-drone teams are enforcing the Balloon Fiesta TFR, but the FAA's two NOTAMs run 5:30 a.m. to noon and 4 to 8 p.m. daily, not around the clock.

Haye KestelooOct 4

Two children in pilot caps sitting at a junior flight simulator cockpit with multiple display screens

Europe

Estonia's Capital Trains Kids From 8 on Drones, Citing Russia

Tallinn opened a drone classroom for children aged 8 to 16 and it is already fully booked. The city sold it as STEM. Its creator says the motive is Russia.

Haye KestelooOct 4

A crowd of journalists and officials gathered in front of the fire-damaged, partly collapsed National Academy of Sciences building in Kyiv.

Ukraine

Germany Funds Jet-Drone Interceptors As Ukraine's Best Hits 30%

Merz arrived in Kyiv with €1.3 billion, part of it for mass-producing interceptors against Russia's jet Shaheds. Zelensky says the best one downs 30% of targets.

Haye KestelooOct 4

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