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Ireland is tightening its digital airspace as it prepares to host Europe’s political elite. When Council of the European Union presidency rotates to Dublin on July 1, Ireland will become the diplomatic living room of Europe for six months. Prime ministers, presidents, defense chiefs, and policy heavyweights will pass through the capital. That spotlight brings…
As global militaries sprint through the AI arms race, China is leaning into a strategy that sounds less like a defense white paper and more
The U.S. Army is quietly experimenting with a future where supply convoys hum through the sky instead of rumbling down dusty roads. On February 12, 2026, soldiers conducted training with the TRV-150 unmanned aerial vehicle at Fort Stewart in Georgia, evaluating the heavy lift logistics drone during an exercise focused on performance and operator readiness,…
A political storm is circling one of New York City’s most historic industrial campuses, and at the center of it is a drone manufacturer. The city owned Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. will not renew its lease with Easy Aerial, a New York based drone company, according to statements made by local officials and later…
A company by the name of PowerLight Technologies, out of Kent, Washington, may have found the secret to the age-old war between UAS and batteries: laser-powered drones. No, I’m not kidding. PowerLight claims to have created a way to power long-endurance fixed-wing drones by using ground-based lasers that can charge them up to (nearly) one…
Kansas City may soon get something it has never had before, local police with the legal authority to knock a drone out of the sky, as KCTV5 reports. A new bill introduced by Eric Burlison would temporarily give state and local law enforcement the power to intercept and disable unmanned aircraft during the 2026 FIFA…
Thermal drone footage has added fuel to a growing controversy in Southaven, Mississippi, where Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is accused of operating unpermitted gas turbines to power its expanding datacenter footprint, as reported by The Guardian. An investigation by Floodlight newsroom used aerial thermal imaging (yep, the same that we write a lot…
Sammy Azdoufal wanted to drive his new DJI ROMO robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. Just for fun. So he used Claude Code to reverse-engineer the DJI app’s communication protocols, built a custom client, and connected it to DJI’s servers. What came back wasn’t just his vacuum. Roughly 7,000 ROMO units across 24 countries started…
Michigan is no longer just talking about drones. It just secured the airspace to prove it. The U.S. Department of Defense has officially designated Michigan’s National All Domain Warfighting Center as a National Range for Deep Uncrewed Aerial Systems training, as reported by FREEP. That is a long title, but the meaning is simple. Michigan…
This article has been updated on Feb. 19 2026 In the mountain town of Aspen, where forests press close against homes and ski lodges, wildfire season no longer waits politely for summer. It lingers year round, prowling the tree lines. Now, the Aspen Fire Department is answering with a new kind of strike force that…
A drone pilot in Maryland is now facing federal charges after allegedly flying over one of the most sensitive military sites in the United States and posting the footage to his YouTube channel, as FOX Baltimore reports. According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court for Maryland, Stuart Dale Bennett was identified by the…
The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 is no longer just a rumor circulating in forums and Telegram groups. It has appeared in the real world. An official DJI retailer in Kuala Lumpur has shared hands on footage of the camera after a customer walked into the store carrying it. The video is now live on Instagram,…
A small college in Harrison, Arkansas just stepped onto a national stage. The Federal Aviation Administration has selected North Arkansas College’s Uncrewed Aerial Systems program for its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Collegiate Training Initiative, known as UAS CTI. The information was released by the North Arkansas College on their website. That puts Northark inside an elite…
The department has partnered with Ponderosa.ai to pilot what they describe as the nation’s first water dropping suppression drones
Flying the mission was Sgt. Michael Matelski, one of three FAA licensed pilots in the department. He deployed a DJI Matrice 30T, a compact
Chinese authorities have criminally detained DJI’s former Vice President of Sales on suspicion of accepting bribes during a five-year tenure that coincided with the drone giant’s most turbulent period of global regulatory pressure. The executive, identified only by surname Yuan, oversaw DJI’s entire global sales operation from May 2019 through May 2024. The detention was…
A former drone operator from Russia’s elite Rubikon unit has defected to Ukraine, offering a rare inside look at how one of Moscow’s high profile UAV formations recruits, trains, and maintains control over its personnel. The interview was published by Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate through its “I Want to Live” surrender initiative, and reported by…
Europe just gave a cargo drone a new job title. The Black Swan, originally built to haul freight across continents, is being refitted into a high flying sentinel by Bulgaria’s Dronamics and Germany’s HENSOLDT, as Next Gen Defense reports. The result is something they call “Detect and Defend.” Which sounds polite. In practice, it means…
From Feb. 20 to 22, 64 FPV pilots will compete in the 7th Annual Micro Drone Race, flying tight, high speed lines through a custom course
The United States Army is about to add a new insect to its battlefield ecosystem, and this one hunts in midair. In March, the Army’s Global Response Force will begin assessing the Bumblebee V2, a four rotor FPV interceptor designed to chase down and physically ram hostile drones out of the sky, as Defense News…
At the Munich Security Conference, Germany’s Auterion and Ukraine’s Airlogix announced a joint venture to mass produce autonomous strike drones for Ukraine and NATO allies, as Militarnyi reported.
If the numbers are accurate, this was not a strike. It was a warehouse extinction event. Ukraine says it has destroyed approximately 6,000 Russian FPV drones in a precision strike on a storage site in the Rostov region, as UNITED24 reports. The claim comes from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which…
London Defence R&D recently unveiled their Raptor Pilot AI Pro, a 100g AI autopilot unit that is capable of using visual and inertial systems to reach its target, even if it doesn’t have an external control link. This AI autopilot module combines flight control and onboard vision processing into a solid, unified package. The Raptor…
A police drone made the difference between a long night and a safe reunion in Pennsylvania this week. On February 2 at 9:39 p.m., the Buckingham Township Police Department requested drone support from the Warrington Township Police Department to help locate a missing endangered man suffering from dementia, as Patch.com reported. Time was critical. Darkness…
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