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The Financial Times sent reporters into eastern Ukraine and came back with a term that every military planner should memorize: the “kill zone.” It is the strip of land closest to the front lines where anything that moves, on wheels, on foot, or on treads, gets targeted and destroyed by first-person-view drones. We have been…
Florida based Petrel Technologies confirmed that its AERO Sky hybrid VTOL aircraft completed a six hour endurance test, covering hundreds
Germany is shopping for a robotic wingman that can fight, strike, think, and still find its way home if the signal goes dark. According to United24 Media, Berlin is evaluating several unmanned aerial vehicles for a future unmanned fighter bomber program. The goal is ambitious: an aircraft capable of air to air combat, ground strikes,…
An ATR-72-600 turboprop operated by Myanmar National Airlines was hit by multiple FPV suicide drones while passengers were boarding at Myitkyina Airport on the evening of February 20, 2026. No one was killed or injured, but the attack marks the second time in eight days that drones have targeted the airport, and what appears to…
The Orlando City Council is set to vote Monday on a $6.83 million expansion of the Orlando Police Department drone program, a move that would formalize a Drone as First Responder system built around Axon’s Skydio aircraft, according to Orlando Weekly. If approved, the city would amend its existing contract with Axon to purchase 11…
The U.S. Army has added a new arena to its culture of elite competitions. This time, the battlefield fits inside a backpack and launches with a whine. From February 17 to 19, soldiers gathered at the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s UAS and Counter UAS Test Range for the inaugural Best Drone Warfighter Competition, as…
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week, and they’re quite interesting. First up, the FAA abruptly shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas. A former DJI VP has been detained in China. A new bill gives Kansas City police the authority to take down drones. And…
SkyDrive Inc. has reached a general understanding with 7A Drones Co., Ltd. for the purchase of 10 SKYDRIVE Model SD 05 eVTOL aircraft
California based startup Swarm Aero has opened an 80,000 square foot Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas
In April 2025, inside the neon charged arena of the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi, something quietly historic happened. An autonomous racing drone did not just compete. It defeated three human FPV world champions in head to head knockout rounds, as Small Wars Journal reported. No pilot.No goggles.No thumbs on sticks. Just silicon nerves…
At the India AI Summit, California based Ottonomy.IO unveiled Ottumn.AI, a cloud orchestration platform designed to coordinate robots, drones, and smart infrastructure as if they were sections of the same mechanical orchestra, as published by The Robot Reports. The company built Ottumn.AI on NVIDIA artificial intelligence infrastructure, with backing from the NVIDIA Inception program. The…
In Rockbridge, Virginia, first responders have found a new partner that does not drink coffee, does not complain about overtime, and can hover over a cornfield at midnight without blinking. The Rockbridge Regional Public Safety Communications Center has quietly built a drone program that is now reshaping how local agencies handle search and rescue, suspect…
In a world where minutes can redraw the map of a community, drones are no longer weekend gadgets or delivery pipe dreams. They are becoming airborne lifelines. On March 2, the University of Mississippi will host its second Unmanned Aircraft System Symposium, organized by the Center for Air and Space Law. The event, titled “Unleashing…
SABUVIS II was managed by the EDA with a budget of €3.7 million. Poland served as the lead nation, with Germany, Portugal, and Slovenia
Europe’s AI driven drone heavyweight, TEKEVER, has officially switched on the lights at its new UAS Training School in West Wales, turning a quiet corner of the Welsh coast into what looks increasingly like a nerve center for serious unmanned aviation, as SUAS News reports. The facility has been fully operational since January 2026 and…
Police in regional Australia are about to test a capability that feels like a preview of where public safety aviation is heading. In Moree, NSW Police are deploying DJI Matrice 4TD aircraft as part of a six month trial that allows officers in Sydney to remotely pilot drones operating more than 600 kilometers away, as…
German defense startup Stark is facing mounting backlash over its ties to tech billionaire Peter Thiel, days before lawmakers decide on a drone contract that could reach €2.9 billion, as Financial Times reports. What should have been a celebration of Europe’s push for sovereign defense tech has instead turned into a debate about influence, democracy,…
The Ukrainian company Ratel Robotics announced on February 18 that its domestically produced Ratel H unmanned ground vehicle has been
Europe is not just designing a long range loitering munition. It is redesigning how such weapons are built. Under the European Long-range Strike Approach framework, the One Way Effector 500 Plus is emerging as a deliberately simple, industrial scale strike system, as Interesting Engineering reports. And the word simple keeps coming up for a reason.…
Europe’s five biggest military spenders are formalizing what Ukraine’s drone operators figured out the hard way: cheap autonomous systems beat expensive traditional ones. The UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland are expected to announce a new joint drone and missile development program as early as Friday, February 20, during a defense ministers’ meeting in Poland,…
China’s coastguard just gave us a rare window into how drones are shaping operations at Scarborough Shoal, and it did not come through a defense white paper or satellite imagery analysis. It came through a Lunar New Year post. Behind the festive tone was something far more strategic. Beijing is increasingly relying on uncrewed aircraft…
Israeli drone maker XTEND is heading to the public markets through a $1.5 billion reverse merger with Florida based JFB Construction Holdings, a Nasdaq listed contractor whose core business until now has had little to do with defense robotics, as Bloomberg reports. The combined company will rebrand as XTEND AI Robotics and trade under the…
London’s phone theft crisis has mutated into something colder and more organized. Gangs are recruiting children on Snapchat, offering up to £380 for the latest Apple devices, and sending teenagers out on bikes before school to hunt commuters, as The Guardian reports. According to the Metropolitan Police, gangs are circulating digital “menus” listing cash rewards…
US based Ondas Holdings is seeking to acquire Aeronautics, the unmanned aerial vehicle subsidiary of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
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