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Antigravity A1 vs. DJI Avata 360: The One Feature That Changes Everything
I flew the Antigravity A1 and DJI Avata 360 head-to-head in Puerto Rico. Here's how they compare on size, goggles, signal, flight time, and which to buy.
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Lee County Sheriff Releases Drone Footage Of Man Firing A BB Gun At A DFR Aircraft, A Federal Felony
A Lee County Sheriff’s Office drone searching for a bear in southwest Florida recorded a man pointing a BB gun at the aircraft and firing at least twice, and the footage put a federal felony on camera in real time. The arrest came Saturday, and the agency later released the video alongside footage of the…
Walmart
Walmart and Wing Add Seven Markets, Putting Two Drone Operators on a Collision Course in Memphis
Walmart and its drone partner Wing named seven new metro areas for their delivery network on June 10, and one of those cities should sound familiar to anyone who read DroneXL earlier today. Memphis is on the list. So is Phoenix. The Alphabet-owned operator will push the partnership toward nearly 20 US markets, and the…
Amazon
Amazon Brings Prime Air to Memphis With a Meet-and-Greet, Not a Launch Date
Amazon parked an MK-30 delivery drone inside the Renasant Convention Center on Tuesday and invited Memphis residents to meet it. The company calls the service Prime Air, and the pitch was familiar: packages up to five pounds, delivered in two hours or less, for $4.99 if you hold a Prime membership. What Amazon did not…
Ukraine
SkyFall’s AI Interceptors Hunt Shaheds Without a Pilot’s Eyes, and Ukraine Knows the Risk It Is Taking
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer called SkyFall has flown artificial intelligence into the one job interceptor pilots could never do fast enough: spotting an incoming Shahed before the human eye registers it. At a launch site in a central Ukrainian pine forest, the company demonstrated its P1-SUN interceptor against a lightweight replica of the Iranian-designed attack…
DJI
FCC Reopens The Door To Chinese Toy Drones, But The Rules Are So Tight Even A DJI Neo Doesn’t Qualify
The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it will allow new models of Chinese toy drones to be imported into the United States, the latest crack in a sweeping ban that has frozen DJI and Autel out of the American market since December. On paper, it reads like a thaw. Read the fine print and…
White House
DOJ Charges Five Men In White House UFC Drone Plot, And The Complaints Show A Plan Long On Intent, Short On Drones
DOJ charges five men over a drone-and-sniper plot at the White House UFC Freedom 250 event. Court filings show real guns but barely-built drones.
DJI
DJI O4 Ground Station Pushes Dock 3 Programs Past Network Dead Zones
DJI's O4 Ground Station extends Dock 3 drone coverage to 30 km via FlightHub 2 and 40 km in relay mode with the Matrice 400, built for off-grid ops.
Insta360
Insta360 Luna Ultra Review: I Tested One of 2026’s Most Exciting Cameras in Alaska
I tested the Insta360 Luna Ultra in Alaska — dual lenses, a detachable remote, 8K I-Log, and Leica color. Here's why it may be 2026's most exciting camera.
White House
FBI Stops Explosive-Drone Plot At White House UFC Event, And It Lands Mid-World Cup Counter-Drone Buildup
FBI disrupts an explosive-drone plot against the White House UFC Freedom 250 event, arresting five, as World Cup counter-drone spending peaks.
Skydio
Port St. Lucie Skydio X10 Saves Life On Day One
Port St. Lucie’s police department flipped the switch on its new Drone as First Responder program on June 11, and the system did not wait long to prove itself. Within hours, a remotely launched drone located a missing autistic woman before she could reach a nearby canal, arriving on scene ahead of the responding officers.…
DJI
What Three Illinois Spray Drone Operators Actually Fly
Ag spray drones have moved from novelty to revenue stream in the U.S. Corn Belt, and the operators flying them have strong opinions about which platforms hold up over a full season. Prairie Farmer recently spoke with three Illinois custom operators about the aircraft and trailers they actually run. Their answers line up around two…
Insta360
DJI and Insta360 Are Fighting in US Court Over Cameras Most Americans Can Only Buy From One of Them
DJI sued Insta360 over the Luna Ultra on its US launch day, and Insta360 countersued with five patents. The fight is over a market DJI's own Pocket 4P can't enter.
DJI
DJI Osmo Pocket 4P vs Pocket 4 vs Pocket 3, and the Insta360 Luna Ultra Americans Can Actually Buy
Insta360 Luna Ultra vs DJI Osmo Pocket 4P, Pocket 4, and Pocket 3 compared on specs, price, and US availability, the one spec DJI's FCC ban can't fix.
DJI
DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Goes Official With Two Cameras, 17 Stops, and a 103GB Body US Buyers Still Cannot Touch
DJI has published the full DJI Osmo Pocket 4P spec sheet, turning a vague Cannes teaser into a real product. The pocket gimbal pairs a new 1-inch wide-angle main camera with a dedicated 60mm telephoto, a combination no prior Pocket has carried. The headline numbers are now concrete: 17 stops of dynamic range on the main sensor,…
Australia
Coogee Beach Shark Attack Prompts Australian Regulator To Review Drone Curbs Under a Sydney Airport Flight Path
A shark attack that critically injured a 35-year-old woman at Sydney’s Coogee Beach on Saturday has pushed Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority to reconsider the drone restrictions that limit shark-spotting flights at one of the city’s most exposed beaches. The restrictions exist because Coogee sits under the flight path of Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, which…
Department of Homeland Security
Bridgepoint Weighs $1 Billion Sale Of MyDefence, The Counter-Drone Firm Guarding World Cup Airspace
Private equity owner Bridgepoint is preparing to sell MyDefence, the Danish counter-drone company whose jammers and detectors are helping guard airspace at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in a deal that could value the business at around $1 billion. The London-listed firm has hired an adviser to prepare an auction toward the end of this…
Germany
In Berlin Four CCAs Face Off for Germany
Berlin Air Show this week, each chasing the same prize: the contract to fly as Germany's robotic wingman by 2029.
Germany
700 Drones Form Gaudí’s Face Over Sagrada Familia
Seven hundred drones rose over Barcelona on June 10 and slowly assembled the face of a man who died exactly one hundred years earlier. Antoni Gaudí, the architect of the Sagrada Família, looked down on his unfinished masterpiece in points of light while crowds watched from the streets below. Hours earlier, Pope Leo XIV had…
Police
Toronto Police Tracked Down CBC’s Rogue Test Drone Beside Hotel X Within Minutes
The Toronto Police Service tracked a drone flying over a no-fly zone near Toronto Stadium to its pilot several blocks away beside Hotel X, then sent ground officers to confront the operator, all in a staged exercise built and flown by CBC News ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026. The public broadcaster was given…
DJI
DJI Sues Insta360 In Texas Over Luna Pocket Cameras, And Insta360 Fires Back
DJI filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Insta360 on June 11, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the rival camera maker’s new Luna Pro and Luna Ultra gimbal cameras of copying the design and core technology of its Osmo Pocket line. One suit asserts two design patents covering…
Counter-Drone
Mercedes-Benz Mounts Tytan Drone Interceptors On The G-Class In ILA 2026 Defense Deal
Mercedes-Benz signed a memorandum of understanding with Munich counter-drone startup Tytan Technologies at the ILA 2026 air show in Berlin to develop vehicle-mounted systems that detect and shoot down small drones, built on the military G-Class SUV and the Sprinter van. The agreement, witnessed by Germany’s federal economics minister, makes the Stuttgart carmaker the latest…
Ukraine
NATO Allies Move To Loosen The Trigger On Drones, Handing Its Top Commander New Powers Before The Ankara Summit
NATO countries want to give the alliance’s top military commander more freedom to shoot down drones by the time leaders meet in Ankara next month, after nine months of incursions that have caused damage and injuries while rattling politics across the Eastern Flank. Two NATO diplomats and one alliance official described the proposal to Politico,…
DJI
World Cup Drone TFRs Get DHS Authorization Path, Moab Helicopter Dodges Drone, And AirData Teams Up With LeoSight
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. First up, the FAA adds a new DHS authorization path for World Cup NOTAMs. A firefighting helicopter in Utah dodges an unauthorized drone. And AirData UAV and LeoSight are teaming up to bring live drone data to DFR programs. Let’s…
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