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DJI Avata 360 First Flight: My Raw, Uncut & Unsponsored First Impressions
Hi everyone, welcome to 51 Drones and this is the DJI Avata 360. Welcome to my first uncut and raw first experience with this drone. I did this with the
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DJI Tells Ninth Circuit 25 Unreleased Products Are Now In Regulatory Limbo, With $1.56 Billion At Stake In 2026
DJI filed a sharply worded brief on April 15, 2026 in its Ninth Circuit fight with the FCC, putting specific numbers on the damage for the first time: 14
Department of Defense
Navy MQ-4C Triton Spies on Cuba in 12-Hour Drone Mission
A US Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone spent more than 12 hours orbiting the coast of Cuba on April 16, tracing a pattern that passed Havana, Guantanamo
DJI
DJI Avata 2 Vs A $15,000 Red Komodo Cinelifter: Iceland Test Exposes The Real FPV Trade-Off
Two FPV pilots flew the same lines at three Icelandic landmarks, one with a DJI Avata 2 and one with a Red Komodo cinelifter worth $15,000 to $20,000. The verdict from their head-to-head video, published by creator Mark Gustov on his YouTube channel, is more nuanced than a pure gear-flex comparison. The Avata 2 kept…
Aloft
China’s “Land Aircraft Carrier” Powers Drones Mid-Flight
The US approach has leaned toward laser because the precision suits long-range, single-drone missions. China's microwave approach suits
Amazon
DJI Launches Mic Mini 2 With Ten Faceplate Colors And A €33 Starting Price
DJI pushed the Mic Mini 2 live on its Hong Kong product page one week before the teased April 28 global reveal, confirming that the “More Than Sound” campaign is a second-generation wireless microphone, not an accessory refresh or a Mic 3 successor. The DJI listing is live with full specs, five configurations, and ten…
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DJI Lito 1 And Lito X1 Pricing Surfaces On Italian Retailer Two Days Before Launch, No US Release Expected
Italian retailer Dino Galiano leaked DJI Lito 1 (€339) and Lito X1 (€419) two days before launch. Full specs, forward LIDAR, no US release. Here's what changed.
Skydio
Pentagon Requests $75 Billion For Drones In FY27, With DAWG Getting The Largest Year-Over-Year Boost Of Any Defense Program
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.
Ukraine
IARPA Wants Drone Engines That Rot: New RFI Targets Bio-Derived Propulsion for Missions That Leave No Trace
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.
Ukraine
France Tests Drone-Armed Combat Cells in ORION 26 Drills
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,…
Amazon
Reliable Robotics Raises $160 Million As SpaceX Alum Pushes FAA For First Commercial Uncrewed Cargo Cert
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.
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DJI launches DJI Osmo Mobile 8P in China with remote control
DJI has officially launched its latest smartphone gimbal, the DJI Osmo Mobile 8P, introducing a major design shift with a removable display module.
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Coors Field Drone Incursions Prompt Federal Warning
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…
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DJI releases DJI FlyCart 200, T200 drones with 200kg payload capacity, multi-drone control
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.
Insta360
GoPro Mission 1 Pro Hands-On: 50+ New Features, 1-Inch Sensor, 8K60, and Interchangeable Lenses
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…
Bell
Aevex Stock Doubles in Two Days as Wall Street Bets Big on Military Drone Makers
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…
Iran
24 MQ-9 Reapers Lost Over Iran: A $720 Million Problem
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…
Drone Research
NOAA’s New Ocean Drone Can Replace A Lost Weather Buoy
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
Ukraine Scales Robotic Ground Assaults To 9,000 Missions A Month As Zelensky Pitches Unmanned Warfare To Europe
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…
DJI
DJI Osmo Mobile 9 with Remote Coming April 21st
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.
Reviews
DJI Power 1000 Mini Review Lands With An 8/10 From The Verge, US Sale Still In Limbo
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…
DJI
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 vs Pocket 3: Is the Upgrade Worth It?
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…
Anduril
FAA Picks Palantir, Thales, and Airspace Intelligence to Build AI That Predicts Flight Conflicts Two Hours Out
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…
Anduril
Terrahaptix Builds Africa’s Largest Drone Factory in Ghana as JNIM and ISIS Drive Sahel Arms Race
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…
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