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DRONERESPONDERS and the Mountain Rescue Association (MRA) have scheduled their next Search and Rescue (SAR) Working Group virtual roundtable for May 19, 2026. The session focuses on training — specifically how to become a more efficient small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) SAR pilot — and is open to anyone who works in or cares about…
On the table at the Brave1 pavilion at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf sat a drone unlike anything else on the floor. The frame was large — arms stretched wide, propellers big enough to move serious air. Strapped to the body was a black housing with the VARTA logo and a prominent blue battery pack.…
The ACLU’s new whitepaper argues U.S. drone rules favor government and corporations over citizens — and cites DroneXL’s own protest surveillance reporting as evidence.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 390, the Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) Act, by a unanimous vote on February 24, 2026, sending the bipartisan wildfire drone bill to the Senate. Sponsored by Rep. Vince Fong (R-CA-20) and co-led by Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-4), the legislation directs NASA to expand its existing…
Today I’m breaking down everything you need to know about the DJI Avata 360 so you can decide whether it’s worth it or not. We’re talking 8K 60 frames per second 360 video, a 1/1.1-inch sensor on each camera, 10-bit D-Log M color, O4 Plus transmission, full propeller guards, user-replaceable lenses, omnidirectional obstacle sensing and…
Good day folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. DJI has just launched a brand new, really exciting new product — the DJI Avata 360. I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time, and for some people, this is going to change the way you create and capture aerial footage. Introduction: A Game-Changer for…
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. The Avata 360 is finally out. We also have DJI suing Insta360, and then we have BRINC launching a new Guardian drone with Starlink integration. And then finally, we have some micro drones that are going to the bottom of…
Germany is funding the production of 15,000 Ukrainian-made STRILA interceptor drones for the National Guard of Ukraine, according to an announcement from the German Embassy in Ukraine on March 23. The multimillion-euro agreement — signed in Kyiv in the presence of German Chargé d’Affaires Maximilian Rasch, alongside representatives of the National Guard and Quantum Systems…
Two DJI Mavic 3 drones hovering at least 25 meters above the Caribbean Sea on July 8, 2023, recorded what scientists are calling the most detailed cetacean birth ever documented: a sperm whale calf entering the world off the coast of Dominica, lifted immediately to the surface by a coordinated group of 11 whales. The…
On the day TechEx showed its unjammable fiber-optic FPV drones in Düsseldorf, Russia’s intelligence was bugging their chief engineer’s office back in Ukraine.
The business card on the table at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf read “General Cherry / Vlad Polikashkin / Marketing Director.” The booth behind it was the largest standalone Ukrainian stand on the floor — backlit walls, Ukrainian military unit insignia, a Ukrainian flag in the corner, and a steady line of visitors that did…
DJI officially launched the Avata 360 on March 26, 2026, the company’s first drone to combine a native 360° camera system with full FPV flight capability. The drone is available immediately for sale in China and on pre-sale in most other regions. American buyers are a separate story: DJI’s official website does not offer the…
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 Messe Düsseldorf — and Ukrainian companies occupied some of the busiest floor space in the…
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 is a layered, hardware-plus-software kill chain that is designed to detect, track, and neut
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: the materials needed to build it in the physical world don’t exist yet. The research…
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 Range using Stinger portable surface-to-air missiles to shoot down MQM-171A BroadSword target drones configured to…
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 building the hardware they’re already flying in the field, as reported by The Salina Post.…
The Pardubice facility produces the AT-300 thermal imaging sight, the primary thermal optic for the Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile system
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 straightforward in the best possible way. Agents patrolling the intersection of Colfax and Teller observed…
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, as its detection layer. You wanted Black Mirror? There you go. The system is called…
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 been missing: systems that can spot the threat and systems that can kill it, as…
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.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office launched the system on March 19 in partnership with Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based public safety
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 Bay Area in 2012 as a project inside Google’s X, the Moonshot Factory. It is…
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