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Parrot ANAFI USA to Patrol Skies at 2026 World Cup
The U.S. Coast Guard is deploying the Parrot ANAFI USA as part of a new domestic counter-drone mission this summer, with the FIFA World Cup and America’s 250th anniversary celebrations as the first real operational test, as reported by Defense…
Navy’s First Carrier Laser Test Destroys Multiple Drones
The US Navy just put a laser weapon on an aircraft carrier for the first time. On October 5, 2025, a palletized AeroVironment LOCUST system detected, tracked, and destroyed multiple drones in a live-fire test aboard the USS George H.W.…
Airbus A400M to Launch 12 Cruise Missiles or 50 Drones
Airbus just turned its A400M transport into something much more dangerous. On April 18, 2026, the company confirmed a new mothership variant that can launch up to 12 cruise missiles or around 50 drones straight out of the cargo ramp,…
Australia Bets $5B on Laser and Interceptor Drone Defense
Australia just unveiled a decade-long counter-drone push worth up to $7 billion AUD (about $5 billion USD), anchored by two Melbourne companies building hardware the Defence Industry Minister compared to Star Wars, as The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The initial…
VooMax Breeze Is A Fikaxo Rebrand of a DJI Drone—And Fikaxo Doesn’t Even List It
Security researcher Konrad Iturbe has identified the VooMax Breeze 8K drone selling on Amazon as a rebrand of a drone already tied to Fikaxo Technology Inc., one of the suspected DJI shell companies DroneXL reported on in September 2025. Iturbe,…
FAA Launches DETER Enforcement Program, DJI Lito Leaks, FlyCart 200, and SiFly ADS-B Integration
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. The FAA launches the DETER program — we’ll talk about that. Some pricing and spec leaks for not one but two new DJI drones. Speaking…
Army Opens Flightwerx Drone Hub Next to Fort Rucker
The U.S. Army opened Flightwerx on April 20, a new drone innovation facility in Daleville, Alabama, sitting right outside Fort Rucker. The site is built to train soldiers on unmanned systems, connect them with industry and academia, and feed the…
VooMax Breeze 8K Lands On Amazon The Same Day DJI Says Lito X1 Will Never Ship To America
A new drone brand called VooMax has appeared on Amazon with a $649 sub-250-gram drone whose spec sheet reads like a photocopy of the DJI Lito X1 that launched globally this morning. The listing, for the VooMax Breeze Standard Kit,…
DJI Lito X1 Review: Why This Entry-Level Drone Redefines What Beginners Should Expect
Today, we’re taking a deep dive into DJI’s latest entry-level premium drone, the Lito X1. And I know what you’re thinking — premium and entry-level, they don’t go together, right? Wrong. Because we have a very interesting product that has…
Skydio’s Adam Bry Says DJI Tried To Buy The Company In 2014. Twelve Years Later, DJI Can’t Sell Its Drones In Much Of America.
CEO Adam Bry dropped a detail about Skydio’s origin story on Thursday that has been reported before but rarely in Bry’s own words with this much texture. DJI tried to acquire Skydio in 2014. The three co-founders flew to Shenzhen,…
Skydio Raises $110M Series F At $4.4B Valuation, And The CEO Says The Small Size Is The Point
Skydio closed a $110 million Series F on Thursday at a $4.4 billion post-money valuation, with CEO Adam Bry framing the modest raise as the real headline. The San Mateo drone maker was oversubscribed. Existing investors wanted to put in…
FBI Probes Theft Of 15 Agricultural Spray Drones In New Jersey As Iran War Heightens Bioterror Fears
Fifteen agricultural spray drones were stolen from a New Jersey location last month in what the FBI is treating as a sophisticated, possibly coordinated theft, according to reporting by national security journalists Jack Murphy and Sean D. Naylor at The…
DJI Lito X1 And Lito 1 Launch Globally, Wedging Into The Mini Gap American Buyers Will Never See
DJI launched two new sub-249-gram camera drones today, the Lito X1 and Lito 1, aimed squarely at first-time pilots and entry-level creators at a price point that would have moved serious volume at Best Buy. Orders opened April 23, 2026…
Iranian Operative Nabbed at LAX Over $70M Sudan Drone Deal
Federal agents arrested 44-year-old Shamim Mafi at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night as she tried to board a flight to Turkey, as MSN reported. Prosecutors say the Woodland Hills resident spent years brokering Iranian weapons deals, including a…
Skydio CEO Joins Ramapo Police DFR Demo for Rockland Chiefs
The Town of Ramapo Police Department in Rockland County, New York, hosted all five county town supervisors this week for a live demonstration of its Drone as First Responder program. Skydio CEO Adam Bry attended in person and helped sponsor…
DJI Upgrades SkyPixel Winner To A Mavic 4 Pro After US Customs Swallows Her Original Prize Drone
Editor’s note (April 23, 2026): An earlier version of this story mischaracterized the chronology of Joanna Steidle’s SkyPixel prize. Steidle’s original prize was a DJI Mavic 3 Pro that was shipped to her in the United States and seized in…
DJI Avata 360 First Flight: My Raw, Uncut & Unsponsored First Impressions
Hi everyone, welcome to 51 Drones and this is the DJI Avata 360. Welcome to my first uncut and raw first experience with this drone. I did this with the
DJI Tells Ninth Circuit 25 Unreleased Products Are Now In Regulatory Limbo, With $1.56 Billion At Stake In 2026
DJI filed a sharply worded brief on April 15, 2026 in its Ninth Circuit fight with the FCC, putting specific numbers on the damage for the first time: 14
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