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The U.S. Army is shopping for a very specific kind of help. Not another tank. Not another jet. It wants autonomous flying drones and ground robots that can scrub away chemical and biological contamination while humans stay at a safe distance, as Military Times reports. The program is called the Autonomous Decontamination System, or ADS,…
High school students in Hawaiʻi are proving that drones, data, and software can work together to protect fragile ecosystems, after U.S. Representative Jill Tokuda announced the winners of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge for her district through a series of surprise campus visits. The annual competition drew nearly 13,900 student entries nationwide, placing Hawaiʻi’s winners…
The Santa Fe Fire Department relied on a DJI Matrice 30 drone to help locate a lost hiker this week, showcasing how modern search and rescue teams are increasingly turning to advanced unmanned aircraft for real world emergencies, as Unnoficial Networks reported. The incident took place near the top of Aspen Vista Road, close to…
Flying an FPV drone at 3,260 meters above sea level is one thing. Hauling 25 kilograms of cinema-grade drone gear up an icy alpine trail to get there is another thing entirely. Northside did both, strapping a RED Komodo worth over $10,000 to an 8-inch X8 cinelifter and sending it up the face of the…
The incident immediately raised alarms because the base plays a critical role in U.S. electronic warfare operations and hosts the Navy’s carrier
The DJI Mavic 4 Pro is not a drone that will impress you on day one. It will probably make the biggest impression three months down the line, when you realize you keep reaching for it, even when you have plenty of other drones that could do the job. I’ve flown this drone extensively over…
A surveying drone flying directly above a LifeFlight helicopter at Primary Children’s Hospital in Lehi, Utah forced all air operations to halt while a child in critical care waited for emergency transport to another facility. The Lehi City Police Department shared video of the incident, filmed by the South Jordan Fire Department, showing the drone…
Canadian drone safety company AVSS has completed its first round of live, on-mountain avalanche control testing using its Precision Avalanche Management System (PAMS) in Jasper National Park, Alberta. The test used AVSS’s SnowDart hardware and flight planning software on an existing avalanche control route inside the national park, with support from Parks Canada, Transport Canada,…
Zipline and the Government of Rwanda have signed an expansion agreement that makes Rwanda the first country to build a nationwide autonomous delivery network. The deal, announced February 5 by Zipline Rwanda, is the first expansion agreement under Zipline‘s $150 million U.S. State Department award. The signing comes as Zipline hits 2 million commercial drone…
Ten days ago, we covered SpaceX’s emergency speed limit on Starlink terminals, the first measure designed to kill satellite connectivity on Russian strike drones flying over Ukraine. Four days ago, we reported on the full terminal authorization system that Ukraine and SpaceX announced as the next phase. Today, that system went live. And it hit…
The war in Ukraine continues to reshape how Western militaries think about drones, logistics, and battlefield adaptation. One of the clearest lessons now influencing the British Army is the need to 3D print drone parts close to where they are actually used, as Business Insider reports. That lesson came directly from Ukrainian forces. According to…
The U.S. Army’s decision to pair Trillium Engineering’s HD40 LVV imaging payload with AeroVironment’s P550 uncrewed aircraft system offers a clear look at how future reconnaissance missions are being shaped, as Unmanned Systems Technology reported. This is not a case of simply mounting a capable camera onto a capable drone. It is a deliberate alignment…
If drones had a natural predator, it would not be birds, trees, or firmware updates. It would be wires. Power lines, telephone cables, steel guy wires, clotheslines, fences, and that one mystery cable that only exists to ruin your flight. Thin, hard to see, and perfectly placed where drones love to fly. I know this…
The U.S. Army is quietly but clearly signaling where modern infantry combat is heading. During a recent Spartan Focus Table VI exercise, soldiers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division trained with bomber style drones, integrating low cost unmanned systems directly into infantry fire support roles, as reported by Defence Blog. The…
The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) launched the Partnership for Robotics Competitiveness (PfRC) on Capitol Hill this week,
Florida based advanced air mobility company AIR has officially pulled the curtain back on the DrN 600, an uncrewed electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that is clearly designed to do something rare in this industry: actually work for a living. Why my Neo 2 can’t be like this? The announcement marks a public debut,…
Poland has signed a contract worth roughly 3.8 billion dollars to deploy what will become Europe’s largest integrated counter drone system, a move shaped directly by hard lessons from the war in Ukraine and rising airspace violations along NATO’s eastern edge, as reported by Aviacion Online. The program, known as SAN or System Antydronowy SAN,…
The U.S. Marine Corps is rediscovering an old truth with a very modern twist. When the airwaves are hostile, unreliable, or outright weaponized, the smartest move might be to avoid them entirely. From January 27 to 29, 2026, I Marine Expeditionary Force, working with the Defense Innovation Unit, evaluated fiber optic FPV drones at Marine…
A UK-based company by the name of Aerial Ashes is now offering its memorial services in the United States, but its business model will make you do a double take: scattering loved ones’ ashes from the skies with a DJI M600 drone. Aerial Ashes launched in the UK in 2019, and was founded by Christopher…
The Royal Navy has taken another clear step toward a more networked future, after a Wildcat HMA2 helicopter successfully demonstrated real time targeting using live data from multiple uncrewed aircraft during trials at the National Drone Hub in Predannack, Cornwall, as The Avionist reports. During the event, a Wildcat from 815 Naval Air Squadron carried…
A U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II shot down an Iranian Shahed-139 reconnaissance drone as it flew toward the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday, U.S. Central Command confirmed. Hours earlier, two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boats and an Iranian Mohajer drone attempted to board and seize a U.S.-flagged oil…
The FAA's mobile no-fly zones around ICE and CBP vehicles prevent aerial journalism of immigration enforcement, press groups warn. The NPPA calls it worse than the Chicago TFR.
First person view drones receive special attention in the guidance, and for good reason. FPV aircraft are fast, agile, difficult to track visually
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup creeping closer like a VAR review nobody asked for, Kansas City security officials are looking up, not at the scoreboard, but at the sky, as reported by KMBC. Their concern is not weather, birds, or lost balloons. It is unauthorized drones, the uninvited guests that do not need a…
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