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U.S. Marines Test Fiber Optic FPV Drones at Sea
The U.S. Marine Corps is rediscovering an old truth with a very modern twist. When the airwaves are hostile, unreliable, or outright weaponized, the smartest move might be to avoid them entirely. From January 27 to 29, 2026, I Marine…
Aerial Ashes Brings Drone-Based Ashes Scattering to the US, Starting at $750
A UK-based company by the name of Aerial Ashes is now offering its memorial services in the United States, but its business model will make you do a double take: scattering loved ones’ ashes from the skies with a DJI…
F-35C shoots down Iranian Shahed-139 drone approaching USS Abraham Lincoln as IRGC harasses U.S. tanker
A U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II shot down an Iranian Shahed-139 reconnaissance drone as it flew toward the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday, U.S. Central Command confirmed. Hours earlier, two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…
FAA no-fly zones around ICE vehicles are a First Amendment problem, press groups say
When DHS closed 935 square miles of Chicago’s airspace to civilian drones during immigration raids last October, press freedom organizations called it a First Amendment crisis. NOTAM FDC 6/4375 is the same thing, but permanent and nationwide. Two of the…
Kansas City on Alert for Drone Warnings in World Cup
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup creeping closer like a VAR review nobody asked for, Kansas City security officials are looking up, not at the scoreboard, but at the sky, as reported by KMBC. Their concern is not weather, birds,…
DJI Mini 5 Pro: YouTuber Danny McGee Highlights 10 Features That Push The Mini Lineup Further Than Expected
YouTuber Danny McGee has been flying the DJI Mini 5 Pro for months before its official announcement. His verdict: this drone pushes the Mini lineup further than most people expected, and he considers it the number one recommendation for anyone…
US Marines Build HANX, The First NDAA Compliant 3D Printed Drone
The U.S. Marine Corps has quietly crossed an important threshold in military drone development by creating its first fully NDAA compliant unmanned aircraft with no China sourced components, a compact and modular platform known as HANX, developed by the 2nd…
Timmins SAR gets DJI Matrice 4TD, the Cadillac of drones
When search and rescue teams talk about gaining an advantage, they usually mean better boots, more radios, or maybe an extra truck. In Timmins, Ontario, the advantage now hums softly, lifts straight up, and sees heat through snow, trees, and…
Turkey’s Drone Industry Faces a NATO Reality Check
Turkey did not wake up one morning and decide to dominate the global combat drone market. It crept there quietly, selling capable aircraft to buyers who wanted results fast, paperwork slow, and prices low, as War on The Rocks reports.…
ICE’s $85 Billion Surveillance Machine Includes Skydio Drones for Protest Monitoring and Roving No-Fly Zones for Everyone Else
The Washington Post published a comprehensive investigation this week into ICE’s rapidly expanding surveillance technology arsenal, and the drone angle is something every pilot in this country needs to understand. Buried within the details of facial recognition apps, phone-hacking spyware,…
Choctaw Nation lands $2M federal grant to fly medical supplies across Oklahoma’s rural reservation
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) just received a $2 million SMART (Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to build out a drone-based medical delivery network across its 10,923-square-mile reservation in southeastern Oklahoma. The…
JBER warns Alaska drone pilots: fly here and you risk an F-22 collision
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, is home to F-22 Raptors and C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft. It is also surrounded by some of the most photogenic terrain on the planet. That combination creates a problem the base’s counter-drone team…