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After nearly 400 drone videos, I finally took the DJI Neo 2 out just for fun — and it got me thinking: is the drone hobby dying, surviving, or thriving? Here's my honest take on where we've been, what changed, and why I'm still optimistic about the future.
The FAA's 2025 enforcement report details fines up to $36,770 against 18 drone operations and certificate actions against eight pilots — including one emergency revocation near Mar-a-Lago. Here's every case broken down.
DJI just opened a competition that could change what drones are capable of. Not the hardware. The brain. The DJI Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026 is not a drone racing event. It is not a photography contest. It is DJI saying, out loud, to every developer and researcher on the planet: we have built…
A filmmaker worked factory night shifts, bought his first drone, and built a production company. Here's what his story means for drone pilots right now.
The UK dispatches the 12th Regiment Royal Artillery to the Middle East, leveraging battlefield experience from Ukraine to defend against Iranian Shahed drone threats.
Too many new drone pilots jump straight into advanced moves without mastering the basics. There are five drone shots that you should be practicing first. I’m Greg, the co-founder of Pilot Institute, where more than 400,000 students have already learned to fly safely and confidently. In this article, I’m going to walk you through the…
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 Gulf government are in active talks to buy Ukrainian drone interceptors that do the same…
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 piece. But it has a notable gap. The word “interceptor” does not appear once. That’s…
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