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Pentagon’s FY27 budget earmarks $75B for drones, with $54.6B for DAWG, the largest year-over-year boost of any defense program. Full analysis and what’s next.
IARPA’s RFI-26-01 seeks bio-derived materials for drone turbines and motors that degrade after missions. Responses due May 15. Analysis and what it means.
France’s 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade is using the ORION 26 exercise to break its platoons into small drone-armed combat cells, a doctrinal shift pulled directly from the lessons of the war in Ukraine, as Defence Blog reported. The brigade announced the experiment on April 18, 2026. The goal is blunt. Make infantry harder to find,…
Reliable Robotics closed a $160M round led by Nimble Partners, pushing valuation near $1B as the SpaceX alum-led startup races toward FAA uncrewed cargo cert.
DJI has officially launched its latest smartphone gimbal, the DJI Osmo Mobile 8P, introducing a major design shift with a removable display module.
More than a half dozen drones flew into restricted airspace around Coors Field during the Colorado Rockies’ opening homestand against the Philadelphia Phillies from April 3 through 5, as ESPN reported. Nobody was arrested. The FAA and the FBI issued a joint warning on Thursday, April 16, trying to keep drones out of the stadium…
In yet another product release, DJI has unveiled two new heavy-lift drones: the DJI FlyCart 200 and the DJI T200 with 200kg payload capacity.
I’ve been putting the brand new GoPro Mission 1 Pro through its paces over the last couple of weeks — outdoors running and riding, underwater, you name it. All to figure out how its new features work, because there are a ton of them. About 50 new features, which is actually quite astonishing. More than…
Shares of Aevex Corp. doubled Monday, April 20, 2026, just two trading sessions after the military drone manufacturer listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Class A shares jumped as much as 49% to $40.25, up from the initial public offering price of $20 set last week, according to a Bloomberg report by Arvelisse Bonilla…
Operation Epic Fury has cost the US Air Force 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones since late February. At roughly $30 million per airframe, the losses add up to around $720 million in hardware alone, as National Interest reports. Iranian surface-to-air missiles are doing most of the shooting, and the clusters of lost drones map almost perfectly…
NOAA announced a new uncrewed surface vehicle for its research fleet, and the pitch is simple. It’s solar-powered, self-propelled, small enough to trailer behind a truck, and built to loiter at sea for months. Engineers at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle think it can do almost everything a weather buoy does, plus a…
Ukraine carried out more than 9,000 frontline missions with armed unmanned ground vehicles last month, up from 2,900 in November 2025, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense. The figures, reported by The New York Times on April 20, show ground robots moving from experimental curiosity to standard tactical asset in roughly twelve months. A year…
A newly released teaser hints at what could be the DJI Osmo Mobile 9, and it may introduce one of the biggest design changes we've seen so far.
DJI launches the Power 1000 Mini globally today, and The Verge’s Thomas Ricker posted his review this morning giving it an 8 out of 10. The headline finding: it is the smallest 1 kWh portable power station on the market. DJI shrank it down roughly in half compared to the original Power 1000, while keeping…
Good day folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. In today’s article, we’re going to primarily do a video comparison of the new DJI Osmo Pocket 4 against the Osmo Pocket 3. Before we get into the side-by-side comparisons, I just want to go over some of the main upgrades and main selling points of the…
The Federal Aviation Administration is quietly developing an AI-powered air traffic management tool that would let controllers deconflict flight paths up to two hours before a collision risk emerges, according to reporting from The Air Current published April 17, 2026. The program is called Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories, or SMART. Three companies are…
Terrahaptix Inc., the Nigerian defense-tech startup also known as Terra Industries, will open a 34,000-square-foot drone factory in Accra, Ghana, by the end of June 2026. At full capacity, the plant targets 50,000 units annually by 2028, which would make it the largest drone manufacturing site on the African continent, the company confirmed in a…
The UK Ministry of Defence announced on April 15 that Britain will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine by the end of 2026. Defence Secretary John Healey made the announcement ahead of the 34th Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting in Berlin. Deliveries of the new package began this month, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda.…
DJI Lito X1 launches on April 23. That’s in four days. Somebody apparently forgot to tell Speedy Drone in Toronto, because their product page for the Lito X1 has been live for a while now, complete with a full spec sheet, a comparison chart, an FAQ section, and sample photos allegedly shot on the drone…
A Danish startup called Sapient Perception raised €2 million in pre-seed funding this week, pitching a sensor that lets drones see a much wider area without losing detail. The round was co-led by Balnord and FORWARD.one, as Resilience Media reported. The money will go toward engineering hires, product development, and early customer deployments in defense,…
DJI will occupy Booth C6719 at the Las Vegas Convention Center when NAB Show 2026 opens April 19, showing off its Ronin and Osmo product lines to the broadcast industry for four days straight. The company confirmed its attendance in an April 17 press release and teased the booth on its official X account the…
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a new drone enforcement program on April 16, 2026, that offers first-time individual violators reduced civil penalties or shorter certificate suspensions in exchange for admitting liability and surrendering their right to appeal. The Drone Expedited and Targeted Enforcement Response program, known as DETER, was published in a press release the…
Kraken Robotics just pulled off something navies have been trying to make practical for years. The Canadian firm integrated its KATFISH towed sonar onto Sefine’s RD-22 unmanned surface vessel off the coast of Istanbul, then launched and recovered the system from the moving USV with no humans in the loop, as Unmanned Systems Technology reported.…
A Tokyo defense startup just put a $450 fixed-wing drone on the Japanese market, and the airframe is made of wood. JISDA, short for Japan Integrated Security Design Agency, announced the ACM-01 Shiraha on April 14 in Tokyo. It’s a 6.2-foot wingspan trainer built to be flown hard, crashed, and replaced without anyone wincing at…
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