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The FIA World Rally Championship YouTube channel dropped a video titled “INSANE Rally Drone Footage,” and for once, the title isn’t clickbait. An FPV drone chases a World Rally Car through a desert stage at full speed, and it keeps up. Not for a few seconds. Not for a single corner. Mile after mile after…
The U.S. Marine Corps has quietly crossed an important threshold in military drone development by creating its first fully NDAA compliant
Timmins Porcupine Search and Rescue has received the DJI Matrice 4TD, a drone so capable it feels less like a gadget and more like a
The U.S. Navy’s first operational MQ-25A Stingray has completed its first autonomous taxi test, marking a key milestone on the path toward flight operations, as Boeing Defense and Defence Blog confirmed the event on January 30. During the test, air vehicle pilots initiated movement from the Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control System. The aircraft then…
All drones used by the USAR Drone Team are DJI aircraft, and this rescue system flies on the DJI Matrice 400. This platform is not subtle.
Turkey did not wake up one morning and decide to dominate the global combat drone market. It crept there quietly, selling capable aircraft to buyers who wanted results fast, paperwork slow, and prices low, as War on The Rocks reports. Over the past decade, Turkish drones became a familiar sight from the Sahel to the…
The Washington Post published a comprehensive investigation this week into ICE’s rapidly expanding surveillance technology arsenal, and the drone angle is something every pilot in this country needs to understand. Buried within the details of facial recognition apps, phone-hacking spyware, and cell-site simulators is a quiet but aggressive expansion of federal drone operations, paired with…
Every once in a while, a video appears that forces an entire industry to pause, rub its temples, and whisper, “Please don’t let regulators see this.” The recent recording from Pará that we received via Petroleo e Gas does exactly that. It shows a man attempting to ride a DJI agricultural drone, a machine designed…
Sitting on static display is the newly acquired Elbit Systems Hermes 900, making its first public appearance just months after Singapore
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford traveled to Dublin last week to meet with Manna drone delivery founder Bobby Healy at the company’s headquarters. The visit, which also included Avtrain CEO Julie Garland and representatives from the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), centered on how European and US regulatory frameworks can work together to scale drone delivery operations.…
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) just received a $2 million SMART (Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to build out a drone-based medical delivery network across its 10,923-square-mile reservation in southeastern Oklahoma. The announcement came alongside a live demonstration at the Atoka Health Clinic, where airborne drone
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, is home to F-22 Raptors and C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft. It is also surrounded by some of the most photogenic terrain on the planet. That combination creates a problem the base’s counter-drone team deals with regularly. JBER has published a public advisory reminding everyone that flying any drone…
Michigan legislators just introduced the most ambitious state drone regulation package in the country. It also has the most obvious federal preemption problems of any state drone package in the country. The 15-bill SHIELD legislation, sponsored by state Rep. William Bruck (R-Erie), received its first committee hearing this week and would create “no drone zones”…
Elon Musk confirmed on Sunday that SpaceX‘s measures to stop Russia from using Starlink on strike drones have worked. Hours later, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced the next phase: a full terminal authorization system that will disconnect every unverified Starlink device operating on Ukrainian territory. Fedorov added a claim that puts the entire effort…
War has always been about who adapts faster, and right now Ukraine is speed running that lesson with a buzzing soundtrack. According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence and Defense News, more than 80 percent of confirmed enemy targets are now destroyed by drones, most of them built at home, assembled locally, and apparently delivered with…
Aurora police added another chapter to the growing playbook of real world drone policing, and this one reads like a night vision thriller with a very real and tragic ending. On Friday night, just after 8 p.m., officers responded to a serious crash at Peoria Street and East 13th Avenue in northwest Aurora, as reported…
Dakota College at Bottineau is quietly becoming one of the more interesting places in the US if you care about practical drone education, especially the kind that actually leads to jobs instead of just Instagram clips and dusty certificates. In spring 2026, the college will host its second sUAS Industry Bootcamp, running from March 31…
It is the least shocking aviation news of the year that drones are banned over the Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. A massive sporting event, tens of thousands of fans, the NFL’s legal team hovering like attack hawks. No one expected otherwise. What is surprising is that the Federal Aviation Administration decided…
Two days after Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov thanked SpaceX for its “quick response” to Russian drones using Starlink connectivity, we’re now seeing the first concrete result: a speed-based kill switch. Starlink terminals are now displaying a “Movement speed is too high” error and cutting connectivity when they detect movement above approximately 75-90 km/h (47-56…
The future of policing has arrived in Natchitoches Parish, and it hums, hovers, and politely refuses to crash into trees. The Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office has officially unveiled its new drone program, a move officials say took months of research, conversations, and careful planning to get right, as KALB reports. This is not a last…
On Friday evening, the San Antonio sky will become a floating concert hall as hundreds of drones
New video footage shows the RQ-170 Sentinel, one of America’s most secretive stealth drones, taxiing in broad daylight at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The footage, captured by aviation observer Uncanny Expeditions and shared on X by @thenewarea51 on January 30, 2026, gives the public one of the clearest looks at the classified drone…
A single drone drop at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution recently made national headlines, not because of technical sophistication, but because of its grocery list, as WISTV reports. Crab legs, steak, Old Bay seasoning, and marijuana were delivered neatly from the night sky, a reminder that modern drone misuse does not always involve espionage or…
Enterprise drone pilots do not wake up hoping for flashy animations or surprise features. They wake up hoping their drone powers on, knows where it is, and does not do anything weird near expensive infrastructure. DJI seems to understand that mood with its latest firmware update for the Matrice 400. This update does not try…
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