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SWEPCO Sends Skydio X10 Drones to Scout Power Lines in East Texas
East Texas utility SWEPCO has a new way to find the branches that will kill your power before they actually do it. The drones are already flying. The Problem With Trees and Power Lines Vegetation management is the unglamorous backbone…
DJI Avata 360 Confirmed In Two Versions: The 4G Model That Won’t Work Outside China
Ten days before the March 26 launch, a product database listing surfaced on X this afternoon showing something nobody had broken out yet: the DJI Avata 360 comes in two distinct hardware versions. Model DVN3NT is the standard drone. Model…
Jetson ONE Flies the California Coast and 115 Million People Watched
The inventor of the Jetson ONE took off from his driveway, flew over Pismo Beach surfers and straight over the pier, and landed in Grover Beach. MrBeast filmed it. The world noticed. From a Residential Driveway to the Pacific Ocean…
Ukraine’s Sting Drone Is The Most Wanted Weapon In The Gulf. Ukraine Can’t Legally Sell It Yet.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Saudi Aramco was in talks with Wild Hornets to buy Sting interceptor drones for its oil infrastructure. Wild Hornets denied it the same day. Both statements are true — and the gap…
Amazon Prime Air Quits Drone Alliance Over Safety
Amazon’s Prime Air division has walked away from the Commercial Drone Alliance, and the reason is blunt: a fundamental disagreement over whether detect-and-avoid technology should be mandatory across the national airspace. The split went public March 12 after Reuters obtained…
Joby’s Bay Area Flight: A Masterclass in Marketing vs. Reality
There’s a detail buried in Joby’s Golden Gate flight announcement that most other outlets missed — and it changes how you should read this story. Last Friday, Joby Aviation flew its electric air taxi across the San Francisco Bay, past…
DOT & FAA Launch eVTOL Pilot Program in 26 States — Autonomous Cargo Flights Could Start This Summer
The same executive order that unleashed drone dominance last June is now sending electric air taxis into live commercial airspace. On March 9, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA named eight projects under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program…
Teen Rescued from Oregon Cliff Face. A DJI Drone Showed the Way.
A teenager called his dad from a cliff saying he was sliding and was going to fall. His father, a retired firefighter and paramedic, drove 90 minutes and stayed on the phone the whole way. A Coast Guard helicopter and…
State Grid Bets $250 Million on DJI Drones — And It’s Not a Pilot Program
The numbers are hard to ignore. DJI Enterprise has won the State Grid Corporation of China’s first batch of drone inspection procurement contracts for 2026, with a winning bid of 1.83 billion yuan — approximately $250 million USD, according to…
The $20,000 Drone Threat: Why Our Billion-Dollar Bases Are No Longer Safe
The Washington Post opinion piece published March 16 by Nolan Peterson — a former U.S. Air Force Special Operations pilot and Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow — cuts through the usual strategic commentary with something more uncomfortable: a personal account…
Kratos Wins $7M Contract to Detect Drones and Cruise Missiles
A classified customer just handed Kratos a production contract for a system that hunts low-profile drones and cruise missiles. Who ordered it and where it deploys stays secret. What it does does not. The Contract Kratos Will Not Talk About…
DXB Ground Stop: How a Single $30k Drone Paralyzed the World’s Busiest Airport
Dubai International Airport went dark to commercial traffic on Monday, March 16, after a drone struck one of its fuel storage tanks and ignited a fire. The Dubai media office confirmed the incident on X, stating that “a drone incident…
China’s AI-Powered Radar Takes On Drone Swarms as US-Iran War Drives New Detection Race
The Iran conflict is doing more than destroying infrastructure and tankers. It’s stress-testing air defense systems in real time, and Beijing is watching every radar return very carefully. China has publicly confirmed it is integrating AI algorithms into its air…
The A-29 Super Tucano Just Got an AI Brain for Hunting Drones
Brazil’s legendary light attack aircraft is getting an American AI upgrade. The target is cheap drones. The logic is simple and devastating, as Flight Global reported. The Problem With Using a Ferrari to Chase a Bicycle Every time a Western…
Green Berets Learn to Build, Break, and Fix Drones at Fort Carson
Three weeks. Soldering irons, tactical ranges, and high winds over Colorado. The 10th Special Forces Group just graduated its latest class of drone operators. These ones can also repair what they fly. Three Weeks on the Range and in the…
DJI Avata 360 Leaked Pricing Undercuts Insta360 Antigravity A1 by More Than $1,000 Ahead of March 26 Launch
I’ve watched DJI enter new product categories for years. The strategy is always the same: price below market expectations and let volume absorb the margin. The leaked pricing for the DJI Avata 360, set to officially launch on March 26,…
A Ukrainian Drone Came Home with a Russian Trident Stuck in It
A bomber drone flew a strike mission over Kharkiv, Ukrain survived, and returned to base impaled by two feet of nails and steel rods shaped into a trident. Nobody had seen this before. The Drone That Came Home Wrong Late…
Drones Fly Over Texas A&M’s Mock Disaster City in Mass Casualty Drill
Six hundred students. A fake bioterrorism attack. A simulated explosion. And drones flying overhead until midnight for ten straight days. This is how America trains its next generation of emergency responders. A City Built to Burn, Flood, and Collapse Disaster…
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