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DJI Matrice 4E Maps 29 Native Species Across 130 Hectares In Open-Source Flora Study
A surveyor running an environmental baseline study used a DJI Matrice 4E and free open-source software to identify, classify, and geolocate every individual plant of 29 native species across a 130-hectare site. Pablo Carranza shared the work in the Drone…
Transport Canada Proposes Drone Remote ID, Club Exemptions, And New Airspace Restriction Powers
Transport Canada published Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) 2026-005 on June 8, 2026, the biggest proposed rewrite of Canadian drone rules since Part IX of the Canadian Aviation Regulations took effect in 2019. The proposal would mandate Remote ID for…
FAA Adds DHS Drone Authorization Path To World Cup NOTAMs, Texas Locations First
The Federal Aviation Administration will modify all of its FIFA World Cup 2026 drone NOTAMs to add an authorization pathway through the Department of Homeland Security, starting with the Texas locations. The change comes less than two weeks after the…
Moab Firefighting Helicopter Dodges Unauthorized Drone, 17 Months After The Super Scooper Collision
A firefighting helicopter working a brush fire near Moab, Utah encountered an unauthorized drone over the active fire area, and state fire managers responded by publishing photos of what past drone strikes have done to aircraft. The warning lands 17…
Stark Unveils Cascade and Gambit Drones Eight Months After Flunking Every Strike in Military Trials
Stark unveils Cascade and Gambit loitering munitions with fiber-optic guidance and a UK launcher deal, eight months after its Virtus failed every strike.
Memphis Police Fly Skydio, Parrot, and DJI Together
A Memphis police drone tracked a suspect into a black Audi and logged the license plate before officers ever reached the scene. That arrest is the headline. The detail that caught my eye sits in the background of the footage.…
Schiebel’s S-300 Drone Joins Europe’s Sub Hunt
Europe just chose a helicopter drone to help hunt submarines, and it isn’t the small one Schiebel is famous for. The Austrian company’s heavy-lift Camcopter S-300 has been selected as the airborne platform for SWORD, a European Defence Fund project…
Amazon Lands in South Africa, but Prime Air Stays Home
Skydio Drones Fly Nashville Before Council Signs Off
Metro Nashville Police put three Skydio drones in the air over the Madison precinct before the Metro Council ever signed off, and now the program is catching heat for it. The department says a legal exemption let it skip approval.…
Ukraine’s Adis Bomber Drone Flies on Satellite Link
Ukrainian company Martyn Tech just unveiled a heavy bomber quadcopter called Adis, and its headline feature isn’t the payload. It’s the satellite link. By controlling the drone through a satellite rather than a direct radio signal, the operator no longer…
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation…
MaXon Systems Built the $3,500 Autonomous Drone That Kills Shaheds Without a Pilot
The Ukrainian interceptor drone that Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said automates 95 percent of the Shahed kill cycle now has a builder, a price, and a combat record. MaXon Systems, a Kyiv defense technology startup, made a fixed-wing interceptor that…
Navy Surface Drone Pulls Two Apache Crew From the Strait of Hormuz in the First Sea-Drone Rescue the U.S. Military Has Ever Run
An unmanned U.S. Navy boat found two downed Army aviators in the water off Oman on Monday evening and brought them home, the first time an autonomous surface vessel has rescued American military personnel. The two crew of a U.S.…
Cathedral City Drones Hit 90% Coverage on DJI Hardware
Cathedral City Police now cover roughly 90 percent of the city from three rooftop drone docks, and they did it on DJI hardware while half the country is being told to rip Chinese drones off the roof. The department has…
Anduril’s Brian Schimpf Spent Nine Years Warning of a Munitions Crisis. The Iran War Proved Him Right.
Brian Schimpf handed a reporter a three-pound tungsten warhead at a secretive West Texas test site, then watched an Anduril Bolt drone dive at 85 degrees toward hills the company would not let a photographer shoot. That scene opens a…
Providence Drone Ban Locks Down Downtown Until July 21 As World Cup Ghana Base Camp Gets FAA No-Fly Ring
Downtown Providence is closed to drones until July 21. A Federal Aviation Administration temporary flight restriction that took effect June 1 prohibits every unmanned aircraft inside a 1-nautical-mile radius and up to 1,000 feet above ground level around the Graduate…
Matternet Goes Public With $33M Reverse Merger
Matternet closed a $33 million private placement and went public last week through a reverse merger with shell company Los Altos Ventures Corp., now renamed Matternet Inc. The deal makes Matternet the first pure play drone delivery company on U.S.…
Shield AI V-BAT Severs Romanian Officer’s Fingers as Reuters Documents 50-Plus Crashes
A Romanian Navy official lost two fingers and fractured a third on May 12 when her hand was caught in the propeller of a Shield AI V-BAT drone during a training exercise on a boat off the Texas coast. Romania’s…
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