GPS Jamming
White Sands Was Jamming GPS When a Medevac Crew Flew Into a Mountain
NTSB says military GPS jamming was active when a New Mexico medevac crew hit a mountain. The same notice covered drone altitudes out to 389 kilometers.
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Plano DFR
Plano Votes 8-0 To Buy Its Police Drones From Motorola
Plano approved $1.44 million for a Motorola-led police Drone as First Responder program that will launch with DJI aircraft before shifting to BRINC Guardian drones.
Air Force
Red Cat Lands $2.49M Air Force Test Against Its Own Teal 2
Red Cat's Teal Drones won a $2.49 million Air Force order to evaluate Black Widow as a potential successor to the Security Forces' current Teal 2 fleet.
Beach Safety
NYPD Drones Track 7 Sharks as Rockaway Closures Nearly Double
NYPD drones have tracked seven sharks off New York City beaches in 2026 while Rockaway Beach logged 45 shark-related closures, up from 24 at the same point last summer.
Drones for Good
Ocean County's DJI M300 Dropped a Rescue Tube Into a Rip Current, and the FCC Wants That Drone Class Off the Shelf
An Ocean County Sheriff's Office pilot dropped a Restube beside two swimmers caught in a Surf City rip current. The aircraft was a DJI M300 RTK, and a July 21 FCC notice proposes cutting off that class of drone.
NATO
Brave1 and NATO Open the €10 Million Counter-Drone Grant Window, and It Slams Shut Monday
Brave1 and NATO opened applications on July 28 for UNITE-Brave NATO, the first joint Ukraine-NATO innovation grant program. Teams chasing €10 million in counter-drone and air defense grants have until Monday, August 3 to file on Prozorro.
Weaponized drones
KFC Rides A Bomber Drone To Ukraine's Front Line
Ukraine's 3rd SSO Regiment received a KFC order by Heavy Shot bomber drone, showing how battlefield logistics now move food, medicine, and ammunition.
Weaponized drones
Boeing Wants To Build The Ghost Bat Everywhere At Once
Boeing wants MQ-28 Ghost Bat production distributed across multiple countries, with German partners named as Europe pursues defense independence.
Drone Research
China's Laser Drone Charger Hits 38% Efficiency In The Lab
Chinese researchers built a laser receiver that converts light and waste heat into electricity at 38.49% efficiency, enough to spin a drone propeller.
Drone Delivery
Walmart Already Owns The Drone Network Amazon Wants
Wing and Walmart launched drone delivery for more than 50,000 Central Florida addresses, extending a store network Amazon cannot easily match.
Search & Rescue
Colorado Rescue Drone Talks Hikers Through A Lightning Storm
A camera-and-speaker drone reached two stranded hikers near Loveland Pass before ground rescuers could, guiding them through a lightning storm.
Counter-Drone
AT&T Turns Its 5G Towers Into A Drone Radar
AT&T and Ericsson used three commercial 5G cell sites near AT&T Stadium to detect and track drones without radar or new hardware.
FAA
FBI Drone Crackdown Snares Houston Church Videographer
A two-minute DJI Mavic 3 flight to film a Houston church has become a federal case carrying up to a year in prison.
Data Privacy
AUVSI Is Selling FAA Drone Registration Data The FAA Itself Stopped Publishing
AUVSI sells a drone registration database for up to $8,500, but the FAA's public registration file stopped in 2023 and federal rules limit bulk lookups.
DJI
DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Launches Worldwide, Out-Measures The ARRI Alexa 35, And Skips The US Again
DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P launches worldwide at £529 as CineD's lab verifies record dynamic range beating the ARRI Alexa 35. US buyers are shut out again.
DJI
Ex-DJI Executive Warns The FCC Drone Ban Buys American Makers Time, Nothing More
Michael Perry ran DJI's U.S. business for four years. Now building American robots, he says the FCC drone ban buys time and regulation is no moat.
Santa Ana DFR
Santa Ana Mayor Will Demo Police Drones Over Coffee on August 1
Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua and police will host a free public demonstration of the city's new Drone as First Responder program on August 1, with privacy and oversight questions still following its 4-3 approval.
Detroit DFR
Detroit Police Drone Grant Went To Washington Without City Council Approval
Detroit filed a $2.2 million DOJ grant application for a police drone as first responder program without City Council approval. Six members voted no, the city may withdraw it, and DPD still has no approved drone policy.
Flyde Beluga
Flyde Starts $57 Drone Delivery to French Riviera Yachts on August 1
Flyde will launch drone deliveries from Port Gallice to yachts anchored off the French Riviera on August 1, carrying up to 17.6 pounds by winch for $57 per flight.
DJI Avata 2
DJI Avata 2 Guides Escaped Angus Bull Out of I-40 Ravine
A DJI Avata 2 helped Foothills Aerial Services guide an escaped Angus bull out of a kudzu-covered ravine near Interstate 40 in Iredell County, North Carolina.
DJI
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 And 4P Are Both On Amazon In The US, At Prices DJI Never Set
The Pocket 4 sits at $689 and the 4P at $980 on Amazon US, above DJI's global pricing. What the listings and the seller ratings actually show.
Part 135
DoorDash Just Became An Airline, And The Video Shows A Bigger Drone Than It Will Admit
DoorDash earned FAA Part 135 certification and launched DoorDash Air. The company says aircraft details come later, but its own video already shows the airframe and the propulsion testing.
Flytrex
Flytrex Handed Order Routing To Nash, And The Drone Became One Lane Among Many
Flytrex integrated Nash's routing engine across all its Dallas-Fort Worth sites. Nash now decides which orders fly and which go to a human courier.
ACUA Ocean
ACUA Ocean's Crewless Boat Flies Its Own Drone
ACUA Ocean and Teledyne FLIR Defense demonstrated a tethered SkyRanger R70 launching autonomously from the Pioneer uncrewed vessel for persistent maritime surveillance.
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