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FAA no-fly zones around ICE vehicles are a First Amendment problem, press groups say
When DHS closed 935 square miles of Chicago’s airspace to civilian drones during immigration raids last October, press freedom organizations called it a First Amendment crisis. NOTAM FDC 6/4375 is the same thing, but permanent and nationwide. Two of the…
Pentagon Pushes Low Tech Defenses Against Small Drones
The Pentagon has issued new guidance urging the use of camouflage, nets, barriers, and other low cost physical defenses to protect critical infrastructure and crowded venues from small drones, a move that quietly confirms what drone professionals have been saying…
Kansas City on Alert for Drone Warnings in World Cup
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup creeping closer like a VAR review nobody asked for, Kansas City security officials are looking up, not at the scoreboard, but at the sky, as reported by KMBC. Their concern is not weather, birds,…
How Windracers’ ULTRA MK2 Drone Will Save Lives in Madagascar
Windracers’ ULTRA MK2 drone is headed to Madagascar on a World Food Programme (WFP) contract, focused on getting supplies to challenging locations that would otherwise take hours, if not days to reach. Madagascar is the kind of environment that exposes…
Russian Embassy School in London Teaches Combat Drones
Children as young as 15 are being taught how to use battlefield drones at a Russian government run school in west London, according to lesson plans reviewed by The Daily Mail. The Russian Embassy School in Notting Hill, which operates…
DJI Mini 5 Pro: YouTuber Danny McGee Highlights 10 Features That Push The Mini Lineup Further Than Expected
YouTuber Danny McGee has been flying the DJI Mini 5 Pro for months before its official announcement. His verdict: this drone pushes the Mini lineup further than most people expected, and he considers it the number one recommendation for anyone…
Ben Biggs hits 690 km/h in unofficial drone speed run, reclaims title from Luke Maximo Bell
Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs and the Drone Pro Hub team are back. Weeks after Luke Maximo Bell reclaimed the Guinness World Record for fastest drone with his Peregreen V4 at 657.59 km/h (408.6 mph), Biggs took his upgraded Blackbird…
DJI Osmo Action 6: The one manual exposure setting that turns action cam footage into cinema
Most DJI Osmo Action 6 owners press record, leave everything on auto, and wonder why their footage looks flat compared to what they see on YouTube. Cape Town-based cycling YouTuber Gerrit Knein just published a DJI-sponsored breakdown explaining exactly why,…
Hover Air X1 Pro Max review after 7 months: Is it worth $1,100?
I bought the Hover Air X1 Pro Max back in June of last year because someone told me that it could track just about anything as long as it can see a person. Now, all of my DJI drones are…
Telesin frame and street grip kit for DJI Osmo Action 6: Which one is right for you?
Hey folks, Shawn here from Air Photography. Today we’re going to take a look at a couple of different frame options for your DJI Osmo Action 6. Telesin offers a few different frames, including a basic frame that is lightweight…
FPV drone chases WRC rally car through the desert, and the footage is absolutely wild
The FIA World Rally Championship YouTube channel dropped a video titled “INSANE Rally Drone Footage,” and for once, the title isn’t clickbait. An FPV drone chases a World Rally Car through a desert stage at full speed, and it keeps…
US Marines Build HANX, The First NDAA Compliant 3D Printed Drone
The U.S. Marine Corps has quietly crossed an important threshold in military drone development by creating its first fully NDAA compliant unmanned aircraft with no China sourced components, a compact and modular platform known as HANX, developed by the 2nd…
Timmins SAR gets DJI Matrice 4TD, the Cadillac of drones
When search and rescue teams talk about gaining an advantage, they usually mean better boots, more radios, or maybe an extra truck. In Timmins, Ontario, the advantage now hums softly, lifts straight up, and sees heat through snow, trees, and…
U.S. Navy MQ-25A Completes First Autonomous Taxi
The U.S. Navy’s first operational MQ-25A Stingray has completed its first autonomous taxi test, marking a key milestone on the path toward flight operations, as Boeing Defense and Defence Blog confirmed the event on January 30. During the test, air…
DJI Matrice 400 Delivers Ice Water Rescue in Minutes
DJI did it again: If the USAR Drone Team sounds familiar, that is because they are regulars here for a very different reason. We usually write about them for rescuing lost dogs and reuniting them with relieved owners who thought…
Turkey’s Drone Industry Faces a NATO Reality Check
Turkey did not wake up one morning and decide to dominate the global combat drone market. It crept there quietly, selling capable aircraft to buyers who wanted results fast, paperwork slow, and prices low, as War on The Rocks reports.…
ICE’s $85 Billion Surveillance Machine Includes Skydio Drones for Protest Monitoring and Roving No-Fly Zones for Everyone Else
The Washington Post published a comprehensive investigation this week into ICE’s rapidly expanding surveillance technology arsenal, and the drone angle is something every pilot in this country needs to understand. Buried within the details of facial recognition apps, phone-hacking spyware,…
Riding a DJI Agras Drone Is How Darwin Wins
Every once in a while, a video appears that forces an entire industry to pause, rub its temples, and whisper, “Please don’t let regulators see this.” The recent recording from Pará that we received via Petroleo e Gas does exactly…
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