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Sheriff Deputy Builds Drone Pilots in Mississippi
In a classroom filled with propellers, lithium batteries, and big ambition, a deputy sheriff is quietly shaping the next generation of drone pilots, as Leader Call reports. In Smith County, John Darden wears two uniforms. One carries a badge from…
This Module by LiteWing Might Be Our Answer to Drone Navigation Without GPS
When my students transition from DJI drones that have waypoint missions, GPS modules, and AI tracking, down to a 75mm FPV drone, they’re quick to point out how difficult they are to control: that’s where LiteWing’s Stabilization Module picks up…
West Point’s former Army vice chief: Russian troops surrendered to machines, not humans
The timing of this essay says as much as the content. Published today by West Point’s Modern War Institute, retired General James Mingus and Lieutenant Colonel Maggie Harris lay out what readers of this site have watched unfold in real…
Army R.E.D. Drone With Arms Wins Innovation Title
At the U.S. Army’s inaugural Best Drone Warfighter Competition, one team showed up with something straight out of a robotics lab fever dream. A drone. With arms. That actually grabs things. And it won. Soldiers from the 28th Infantry Division…
AI Drone Beats Human Champions in Abu Dhabi
In April 2025, inside the neon charged arena of the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi, something quietly historic happened. An autonomous racing drone did not just compete. It defeated three human FPV world champions in head to head knockout…
EDA Advances Swarming Underwater Drone Tech
The ocean is a hostile place for autonomy: GPS disappears a few meters below the surface, radio waves weaken, latency stretches, and water itself behaves like a restless, shifting labyrinth. That is the environment where the European Defence Agency decided…
Ukraine Upgrades Ratel H With Fiber Optic Drone Launcher
Ukraine has just fused two battlefield trends into one system. Ground robots and jam resistant FPV drones are now working as a single unit, as United24 reports. The Ukrainian company Ratel Robotics announced on February 18 that its domestically produced…
Eric Trump Backs Low Cost Per Kill Drone Deal
Israeli drone maker XTEND is heading to the public markets through a $1.5 billion reverse merger with Florida based JFB Construction Holdings, a Nasdaq listed contractor whose core business until now has had little to do with defense robotics, as…
China Studies Predators to Train AI Drones
If you want your drones to hunt better, apparently you start by watching hawks. As global militaries sprint through the AI arms race, China is leaning into a strategy that sounds less like a defense white paper and more like…
Brooklyn Navy Yard Evicts Easy Aerial
A political storm is circling one of New York City’s most historic industrial campuses, and at the center of it is a drone manufacturer. The city owned Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. will not renew its lease with Easy Aerial,…
Amazon Prime Air Expands to Chicago Suburbs
Amazon is bringing drone delivery to the Chicago area, and this time it is not a pilot program tucked away in the desert. Amazon plans to launch its Prime Air service from two major fulfillment centers in the south suburbs…
Mexico Deploys Anti Drone Shield for World Cup
Mexico is building a layered security bubble for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and it looks like something designed by a defense contractor who binge watched science fiction. With matches hosted across Mexico, United States, and Canada, security agencies are…