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Ukraine’s Drone Industry Arrives in Düsseldorf, and It Has Receipts
Three years ago, Ukraine had almost no commercial drone manufacturing industry at scale. Today, I was walking the floor at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf — the leading European trade fair for autonomous technologies and robotics, running March 24–26 at…
Lockheed Martin Picks Fortem to Defend Critical Infrastructure
Lockheed Martin has selected Fortem Technologies to field an autonomous counter-drone system for critical infrastructure protection, pairing Fortem’s TrueView radar sensors and DroneHunter interceptors with Lockheed’s own Sanctum C-UAS Mission Management software, as reported by The Defense Post. The result…
Rutgers Built a Drone That Flies Like a Bird and Has No Moving Parts
Engineers at Rutgers University have designed a solid-state ornithopter, a bird-like flying robot with no motors, no gears, and no mechanical linkages of any kind, and proven in simulation that it can fly. The catch is honest and refreshingly so:…
U.S. Marines and South Korea Just Practiced Shooting Down Suicide Drones
For the first time on public record, American forces have disclosed live-fire drone interception training during a combined exercise with South Korea. U.S. Marine Corps forces deployed from Okinawa, Japan, conducted the training on March 18 at the Daecheon Shooting…
K-State Salina Hosts First Responder Drone Summit in April
Kansas State University Salina is bringing together law enforcement, fire departments, and emergency management agencies for a full day of drone education and hands-on demonstrations on April 22, connecting public safety professionals with UAS experts, FAA representatives, and the vendors…
Masked Attackers Burn Ukrainian Thermal Imaging Factory in Czech Republic
A group of masked individuals set fire to the Archer-LPP production facility in Pardubice, Czech Republic on the night of March 19 to 20, destroying almost all of the plant’s production capacity, including finished thermal imaging sights and equipment in…
Lakewood PD’s Skydio X10 Drone Films Three Drug Deals Live
A Lakewood Police Department drone operation on Colfax Avenue resulted in five arrests last Saturday after agents used a Skydio X10 to watch three separate hand-to-hand drug transactions in real time before moving in on the suspects. The operation was…
Lockheed’s NetSense Turns Your Phone’s 5G Signal Into a Drone Detector
Lockheed Martin has built and demonstrated a drone detection prototype that uses no dedicated sensors, no specialized hardware, and no new infrastructure. It uses the 5G network that already exists, the same one your phone is connected to right now,…
Air Force Opens Hunt for Drone Killers at Home Bases
The Air Force has had enough of watching small drones poke around its installations without a reliable way to stop them. This week, the service’s Point Defense Battle Lab put out two Requests for Information asking industry for exactly what’s…
BRINC Launches Guardian Drone With Starlink and New Seattle Factory to Scale 911 Response
BRINC launches Guardian, the world's first Starlink-connected 911 response drone, with 8-mile range, 62-minute flight time, and a new Seattle factory.
A Flock Drone Now Guards Georgia’s Most Notorious Jail
The Fulton County Jail has been many things over the years: overcrowded, federally scrutinized, the subject of a consent decree, and home to one of the more infamous booking photos in recent American history. Now it’s also the site of…
Wing finally brings drone delivery to Bay Area residents, 14 years after being born there
Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, announced on Monday that it will expand residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company framed the move as a “homecoming,” since Wing was founded in the…
FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks — The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 2026, banned the import of all new foreign-made consumer wireless routers, adding them to its Covered List after a White House-convened interagency panel determined they pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could…
DJI Sues Insta360 Over Six Patents Three Days Before Avata 360 Launch
New Jersey College Adds Counter-Drone Training to Its Curriculum
Warren County Community College has been quietly building one of the best drone training programs in America from a campus in Washington, New Jersey that most people in the industry couldn’t find on a map. Now it’s adding something no…
Zipline Adds $200M to Series H, Bringing Total to $800M as Repeat Orders Drive Faster-Than-Expected Growth
Zipline has closed an additional $200 million on top of its Series H round, pushing the total to $800 million, TechCrunch reported. The new capital includes participation from crypto investment firm Paradigm and arrives ahead of schedule. “Things have moved…
Netherlands Becomes First NATO Nation to Embed Drone and Counter-Drone Units in Every Army Combat Formation — and Is Hiring 1,200 People to Do It
The Dutch army is about to become the most drone-integrated ground force in NATO. Starting in April, the Netherlands will begin recruiting between 1,000 and 1,200 military personnel to staff newly created drone and counter-drone units that will be embedded…
Aurex Opens 65,000 Square Feet of Secure Defense Manufacturing
Aurex, the Huntsville-based aerospace and defense company formerly known as Special Aerospace Services, has formally announced 65,000 square feet of secure manufacturing capacity across two facilities, one in Huntsville, Alabama and one in Denver, Colorado, built and ready now for…
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