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Medford Drone Catches Drive-By Shooter at Walmart
A man suspected of firing multiple rounds into a Medford apartment complex was arrested without incident Tuesday morning. A drone spotted him first. It’s a clean, quiet example of police drone work done exactly right. From Swing Lane to the…
Zelenskyy Confirms U.S. Request for Ukrainian Anti-Shahed Support — While Fox News Was Accidentally Airing Ukrainian Drone Footage as American Technology
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Wednesday that the United States has formally asked Ukraine for help defending against Iranian-made Shahed drones in the Middle East. “We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against ‘shaheds’ in…
A DJI Neo Drone Over a Voting Line. This Actually Happened.
Someone thought it would be a good idea to fly a campaign drone over voters waiting to cast their ballots in Houston. The drone community gets blamed for a lot. This one we can’t dodge. The Scene on West Gray…
NASA’s Dragonfly Enters Full Assembly Phase as $3.35B Budget and Schedule Risks Loom Over 2028 Launch
Full rotorcraft integration on NASA’s Dragonfly octocopter began in early 2026 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — the same facility where engineers spent the past three years validating rotor performance in simulated Titan conditions.…
Gilroy Greenlights Drone as First Responder Pilot
The Gilroy City Council just approved its first Drone as First Responder program. The city gets the whole first year for free, as KSBW reported. That’s not a minor detail. That’s the kind of low-stakes entry point that gets hesitant…
Pentagon And Gulf States Eye Ukrainian Interceptor Drones As Patriot Missile Stocks Run Low
The economics finally broke. Gulf states spent the last week firing Patriot interceptors worth over $13.5 million each at Iranian Shaheds that cost $30,000 to build. Now, according to reporting by the Financial Times, the Pentagon and at least one…
H.R. 7525: Rep. Burlison’s Counter Drone Bill Pushes to Give Local Police Permanent C-UAS Powers
Representative Eric Burlison (R-MO) has introduced H.R. 7525, the Counter Drone State and Local Defender Act, a bill that would permanently authorize state, local, Tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to operate counter-UAS (C-UAS) systems against unauthorized drone operations. The…
Poland Lets FPV Pilots Fly Without a Visual Observer — Here’s What the Rules Actually Say
Poland’s Civil Aviation Authority (ULC) has issued a temporary exemption that lets FPV pilots in all three Open Category subcategories fly without a visual observer, effective February 12, 2026, through October 12, 2026. The decision, reference number LBSP.503.1.2026.ULC.1, was signed…
Shahed Drones Are Hitting The Gulf And The $2,500 Answer Is Still Being Ignored
Two days ago, The National published a detailed breakdown of how to counter Iran’s Shahed-136 drone threat now hitting Gulf states. Fighters, heavy machine guns, Skyranger 35 systems, Gepard tanks, jamming guns — the full conventional toolkit. It’s a solid…
Clearwater Police Launch Skydio Drone Program for Spring Break
One drone. 45 seconds to scene. A 2.5-mile beach packed with tens of thousands of people. Clearwater just made a smart bet, and the aircraft they chose says a lot about where American law enforcement is headed, as WTSP reports.…
DJI Avata 360 Officially Teased. The Wait For This New DJI Drone Is Almost Over.
DJI posted a teaser on its official X account yesterday. No product name. No specs. Just four words and a video that tells you everything. “An All-New Dimension” On March 3, the @DJIGlobal account posted a short video with a…
Tulsa Deputies Used An Autel EVO II to Disarm a Suicidal Man
No shots fired. No physical confrontation. A deputy spoke through a drone from 200 yards away and a man with a gun laid down and surrendered. This is what de-escalation looks like in 2026. A Crisis Call on the West…
Oklahoma Drones Drop Poison Pellets to Kill Invasive Cedar Trees
Oklahoma has a slow-motion wildfire crisis growing one tree at a time. Drones dropping herbicide pellets tree by tree may be the most cost-effective answer anyone has found yet, as reported by KOSU. The Tree That Is Eating Oklahoma Eastern…
Teledyne and STORM Team Up on Vehicle Drone Launch Systems
A U.S. defense tech firm and a Norwegian startup just signed an agreement to put autonomous drone deployment on any military vehicle. The hardware is already proven. The question is how fast it can scale. Two Drones, One Box, Any…
Drones Will Hunt Toxic Algae Across Florida’s Lake Okeechobee
Every summer, a thick green menace takes over Florida’s largest lake. Embry-Riddle researchers are about to send drones after it. Florida’s Biggest Lake Has a Toxic Summer Tenant Lake Okeechobee is 730 square miles of freshwater sitting at the heart…
Neros Technologies Joins Swindon’s Military Drone Cluster With £10M UK Investment
Swindon has quietly become one of the more consequential defense drone addresses in Europe. The latest arrival: Neros Technologies, the Los Angeles-based manufacturer best known for its NDAA-compliant Archer fiber-optic FPV drone, has confirmed it is opening its first UK…
Portland, Maine Police Department Gets Council Approval for Axon-Skydio Drone After Earlier Rejection
When Portland police have needed a drone in the past, they borrowed one. That changes now. The Portland City Council voted Monday night to approve a $45,316 purchase for the Portland Police Department’s first dedicated drone — a Skydio aircraft…
NATO officers brought paper maps to a drone war. Ukraine’s Nemesis Brigade made them switch to Delta.
New details from the Hedgehog 2025 exercise confirm what we reported last month: NATO’s European armies showed up unprepared for drone warfare. This time, it’s the Ukrainians themselves filling in the operational gaps the Wall Street Journal left out. The…
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