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Brazil just made drone delivery significantly less bureaucratic, which is not a sentence most people expected to write about any country’s aviation regulator, as AINONLINE reported. On March 16, ANAC, Brazil’s civil aviation authority, authorized Speedbird Aero to fly its DLV-2 A25 delivery drone over areas with population densities up to 12,950 people per square…
A DJI Matrice 400 drone paired with the Zenmuse L3 LiDAR payload is now scanning the Mirador Basin in northern Guatemala, where archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen has spent 47 years documenting one of the densest concentrations of ancient Maya cities on Earth. DJI Enterprise published a video profile of the project this month. The video…
The Ukrainian military has tested an FPV (First-Person View) drone that carries both fiber optic and radio control channels at once, giving operators a live fallback the moment the fiber cable breaks or loops mid-flight. Tetyana Chornovol, a Ukrainian journalist, current Verkhovna Rada MP, and Armed Forces platoon commander, disclosed the development on March 22,…
Fifteen years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, palm-sized drones have flown inside the Unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi and reached what engineers had been trying to see since the meltdown began: the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel, surrounded by what TEPCO believes is…
Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, is bleeding Russia’s army faster than Moscow can replace it. A detailed profile published today in The Economist reveals that December 2025 was the first month in four years of war when verified Russian losses to Ukrainian drones exceeded Russian recruitment. Since the start of winter,…
The Ttukseom drone display was one piece of a sprawling urban activation called BTS THE CITY ARIRANG SEOUL, a month-long citywide project
The U.S. Army has placed an order exceeding $52 million with Skydio for more than 2,500 X10D drones, the company announced today. It is the largest small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) procurement from a single vendor in Army history. The contract moved from bid to award in under 72 hours, bypassing the multi-year acquisition timelines that…
In a forest near Grafenwöhr, Germany, the scouts of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are doing something that would have been science fiction to the cavalrymen who rode these same European roads eighty years ago, as 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment reports. They’re sitting behind their Strykers, watching a ground robot disappear into the tree line,…
The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice software platform, as Defence Express reports. It is the largest single contract in Anduril’s history and…
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces have expanded the battlefield kill zone to 150km. Discover how the new Deep Strike Command Centre is using AI-enabled drones to dismantle Russian air defenses and strangle rear logistics.
Nobody asked Max Imagination to do this. There was no grant, no sponsor, no defense contract. Just a YouTuber, an ESP32 microcontroller that costs about as much as a decent burrito, a consumer 3D printer, and a question that apparently needed answering: how fast can you go when the budget ceiling is $155? The answer,…
Turkey’s Baykar unveiled the K2 Kamikaze UAV on March 14, and the promotional video was set to Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2. That detail tells you something about how Baykar sees itself at this point, as QUWA reported. Five K2s lifted off from the Keşan Flight Training and Test Center in Edirne Province, flew sorties over…
Switzerland’s government-backed Taskforce Drones is preparing its next round of UAS technical trials for autumn 2026, building on a December 2025 campaign that pushed attack drones and counter-drone systems through some of the most challenging terrain in Europe, as JANES reports. The program is overseen by the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport…
The DJI Mini 4K bundle just dropped to $269 on Amazon, down from $389, and it comes with two batteries, a remote controller, a shoulder bag
Anduril Industries accelerates FURY combat drone production at its new $1B Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio, hitting milestones four months ahead of schedule. Learn how commercial tech is reshaping the U.S. Air Force's CCA program.
Ukraine is scaling production of 3D-printed interceptor drones like the P1-SUN and STING to 2,000 units per day. As Gulf states eye these $1,000 systems to counter Iranian-designed threats, we analyze the five key models and the looming challenge of jet-powered Shahed-238 drones.
Ukraine's 66th Mechanized Brigade has shifted its drone targeting from Russian infantry to high-value "systems": drone operators, logistics, and shelters. Discover how this tactical evolution is reclaiming ground on the Lyman axis.
The South Bend Police Department launches a one-year Drone as First Responder (DFR) pilot with Flock Safety. Discover how eight RTCC operators are using thermal drones to slash response times in Indiana.
Ukraine officially deploys military drone interception units to five Middle Eastern countries. Following a tour by Rustem Umerov, Kyiv secures long-term security deals to protect critical infrastructure using combat-proven drone technology.
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces have tripled the drone "kill zone" to 93 miles. Discover how the new Deep Strike Command Centre is using Nemesis heavy bombers and AI-enabled FPVs to dismantle Russian air defenses and paralyze front-line logistics.
As Seneca deploys autonomous firefighting drones to Aspen, Colorado, the industry watches to see if 100-pound suppressant payloads can stop wildfires before human crews arrive. A look at the tech, the $60M backing, and the hard reality of wind constraints in aerial firefighting.
Luke Bell's Solar Drone V2 crashed after 2.5 minutes, but the flight logs revealed a breakthrough. Discover how a diode-isolated buffer battery might solve the voltage collapse problem for solar-powered multirotors.
As the FCC updates its Covered List, public safety agencies face a $2B reckoning. Learn why building a drone program that survives Washington is the new priority.
Ukrainian FPV drone operators from the 59th Brigade successfully intercepted and destroyed a $16M Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter near Pokrovsk. See the video and technical analysis of this high-value asymmetric strike.
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