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Caldwell Police Launch Idaho’s First DFR Program
Skydio

Caldwell Police Launch Idaho’s First DFR Program

The Caldwell Police Department has become the first law enforcement agency in Idaho to launch a Drone as First Responder program, marking a major shift in how emergency calls are handled across the city, as KTVB reports. Designed to cut response times and give officers immediate aerial awareness, the program allows drones to be dispatched…

Drones and Canines Search for Missing NC Teen
Search & Rescue

Drones and Canines Search for Missing NC Teen

The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating 14 year old Gideon Andrew Ferguson, who was reported missing Wednesday after last being seen around 4 p.m. at his home on Watermoss Drive near Triplett Road in the Amity Hill community, as Queen City News reported. Since then, deputies have launched…

Japan to Send Drones to South America to Fight Illegal Fishing
China

Japan to Send Drones to South America to Fight Illegal Fishing

Japan has pledged to provide drones to Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay to help the four South American nations monitor their exclusive economic zones and crack down on illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, according to Sea Food Source. The move is aimed at improving surveillance of foreign fishing fleets operating just outside, and sometimes inside,…

Greenville Expands Drone Ops With Flock Safety Push
Drone as First Responder

Greenville Expands Drone Ops With Flock Safety Push

Drones are no longer a novelty in Greenville, Mississippi. They are a working tool, already woven into search efforts and emergency response. This week, city leaders approved new funding that quietly but meaningfully expands those capabilities, adding extra batteries and a second drone controller to the Greenville Public Safety drone program, as FOX17 reports. That…

Replicator 2 Buys DroneHunter to Guard US Skies
Counter-Drone

Replicator 2 Buys DroneHunter to Guard US Skies

The Joint Interagency Task Force 401 just fired the starting pistol on Replicator 2, and the first runner out of the blocks is not a missile, not a jammer, but a net throwing robot hawk. On January 11, JIATF 401 announced its first official Replicator 2 purchase, awarding a contract for two Fortem DroneHunter F700…

Walmart and Wing Launch Drone Delivery in Houston
Walmart

Walmart and Wing Launch Drone Delivery in Houston

Houston just got a little more futuristic, and thankfully not in a flying cars kind of way. Walmart has officially launched drone delivery in the greater Houston area, partnering once again with Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery company, to bring groceries and household essentials straight from the sky to customers’ homes in about 30 minutes. This…

Milwaukee Police Launch Drone First Responders
Police

Milwaukee Police Launch Drone First Responders

When every second counts, Milwaukee police are now letting a drone beat the squad car to the scene as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Milwaukee Police Department has officially launched its Drone as First Responder program, and yes, the drones doing the heavy lifting are Skydio X10s, not DJI, not Autel, not a mystery…

Ambarella Photos and Snapshots | Photo Credits: Ambarella
Antigravity A1

Ambarella’s Hardware Hides In The Antigravity A1 Drone, and it’s a 360-Degree Disappointment

Ambarella is one of those names that stays invisible until a company wants to brag about what’s under the hood of their new product. Based in Santa Clara, California, Ambarella builds the AI “brains” that handle heavy video processing and onboard calculations for cameras, instruments, robots, and yes, drones. The company announced that its CV5…

Ohio Deputies Used a DJI Drone to Track Fugitive in the Woods
DJI

Drone Used by Ohio Deputies to Track Fugitive in the Woods

A DJI drone helped catch a suspect after a night crash on U.S. Route 62 in Stark County, Ohio that quickly escalated into a foot pursuit that could have ended very differently without modern tools, as WKYC reports. Deputies say 56 year old John Osler clipped a truck, ripping off a mud flap and a…

DJI RS 5 Finally Breaks Cover And It Means Business
DJI Ronin

DJI RS 5 Finally Breaks Cover And It Means Business

DJI tried to keep the RS 5 under wraps, but the Hong Kong website cracked open the vault and spilled everything. Specs, features, accessories, the whole buffet. After digging through all the official information, one thing is clear. Dear readers: this is not a polite refresh. The RS 5 is DJI tightening every screw, adding…

DJI Accidentally Leaks the DJI Ronin RS5 on YouTube
DJI

DJI Accidentally Leaks the DJI Ronin RS5 on YouTube

Today was supposed to be a calm, orderly release day for the DJI Ronin RS5 in China, the kind of launch where everything moves behind a velvet rope, region locked websites, carefully timed press briefings, and that familiar DJI sense of total control. Instead, someone at DJI tripped over the biggest red button in the…

Leaked DJI RS5 Video Shows Tracking That Can Outrun Athletes
DJI

Leaked DJI RS5 Video Shows Tracking That Can Outrun Athletes

DJI leaks are like sequels that accidentally premiere before the trailer, and today’s Ronin RS5 leak came with an unexpected plot twist. We went in expecting incremental upgrades, a few spec bumps, maybe a new handle and a slightly different shade of black. What we did not expect was to watch a videographer casually keep…

Baton Rouge Police Deploy First Stalker VXE30 Drone
Lockheed Martin

Baton Rouge Police Deploy First Stalker VXE30 Drone

The Baton Rouge Police Department has added a new aircraft to its growing drone unit, and this one immediately stands apart from the rest of the fleet. Unveiled this week, the Edge Autonomy Stalker VXE30 is significantly larger than any of the other thirty drones currently operated by the department, with a wingspan that stretches…

French Drone Maker Harmattan AI Targets $1B Valuation in Defense Boom
Ukraine

Dassault’s $200M Harmattan Bet Completes France’s AI Defense Trifecta

Four months ago, we reported that Paris-based Harmattan AI was seeking a billion-dollar valuation and was in talks with Dassault Aviation. The aerospace giant just called, and they’re bringing $200 million to the table. The Series B round values Harmattan at $1.4 billion, officially making it France’s newest defense unicorn and confirming what we’ve been…

Colorado Celebrates 150 Years With Massive Drone Shows
Colorado

Colorado Celebrates 150 Years With Massive Drone Shows

Colorado is turning 150 this year, and instead of celebrating with loud bangs and accidental grass fires, the state is looking up and doing things a little smarter. More than forty locations across Colorado will host CO150 drone shows throughout the year, using hundreds of synchronized drones to tell the state’s story in the night…

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