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FAA research: DJI accounts for 96% of detected US drone platforms. The FCC banned DJI in December.
New FAA-funded research puts a hard number on what every drone pilot already knows: DJI is the US drone market. Not most of it. Nearly all of it. The ASSURE A83 2025 Annual Report, produced by researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical…
Oregon Exposes the Real Cost of the DJI Ban: 25 States Report 467 Restricted Drones and Up to $2 Billion in National Exposure
The Oregon Department of Aviation (ODAV) just did something no federal agency has bothered to do: it counted the damage. A new white paper compiled by ODAV through the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) surveyed 25 state transportation…
Kansas City Police Launch Drone First Responder Program
Eight drone nests, 30 seconds to scene, and a Chinese-made aircraft at the center of an American public safety debate. Kansas City just went live. The System That Gets There Before the Cruiser Eight drone nests are now positioned across…
Portland, Maine City Council Votes Again on Police Drone Under Maine’s Strict UAV Law
The $45,000 drone Portland police want has been stuck in political limbo since November 2025, when the council rejected it 4-3. Now, under Order 88-25/26, the Portland City Council faces the same vote again — and the same legal reality:…
Drone jobs are booming across the Mountain West, and a Reno kids club is building the next generation of pilots
The U.S. drone industry now employs hundreds of thousands people either directly or indirectly, The Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows in Reno, Nevada, is training its own staff to fly and code drones so they can pass those…
LUCAS Drone’s Starlink Terminal Alarms Russian Military Analysts — Musk Says It Violates Terms of Service
Combat footage and CENTCOM imagery from Operation Epic Fury tell part of the story. Russian military bloggers are filling in the rest — and they don’t like what they see. A thread posted March 1, 2026 by open-source analyst ChrisO_wiki…
Paris Gets Disney’s Most Ambitious Drone Show Yet
Disney is about to put drones on water. Actual floating, swimming, flying drones. And they debut at Disneyland Paris on March 29. This is not your average light show, as Forbes reports. Why Paris While Orlando Waits Disney has twelve…
Iran’s Shahed-136 Hits Bahrain, Kuwait, and Dubai in Broad Gulf Strike Wave
The buzzing sound is unmistakable. Anyone who has watched footage of a Shahed-136 inbound over a city knows it — that flat, nasal drone of a small piston engine, audible seconds before impact. That sound hit Manama, Kuwait City, and…
US Commerce Department Streamlines Drone Export Controls: A Strategic Push Toward Allied Supply Chains
The policy change is narrow on paper. The implications are not. On January 21, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that removes licensing requirements for certain commercial UAVs exported to most…
Ukrspecsystems Opens UK Drone Factory in Suffolk, Targeting 1,000 Units a Month for Ukrainian Forces
Ukraine’s biggest drone manufacturer just opened a production facility on British soil. Ukrspecsystems, described as Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturer, has converted a building in Mildenhall, Suffolk into an operational drone factory, backed by a £200 million investment. When running at…
LUCAS Attack Drone Sees First Combat in Operation Epic Fury, Turning Iran’s Own Shahed Design Against Tehran
Seven months after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a reverse-engineered Iranian drone at a Pentagon event and called it America’s answer to the Shahed-136, that drone flew in combat. In the early hours of February 28, 2026, the…
Pentagon Shoots Down Its Own $30M CBP Drone at the Texas Border and Still Has No Fix for the Coordination Failure That Caused It
A U.S. military high-energy laser destroyed a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) surveillance drone near Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday, February 26. The reason: CBP never told the Pentagon it was flying one. The military saw an unidentified aircraft…