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The U.S. Army opened Flightwerx on April 20, a new drone innovation facility in Daleville, Alabama, sitting right outside Fort Rucker. The site is built to train soldiers on unmanned systems, connect them with industry and academia, and feed the Army’s push to close a documented gap in small drone and FPV warfare, as The…
A new drone brand called VooMax has appeared on Amazon with a $649 sub-250-gram drone whose spec sheet reads like a photocopy of the DJI Lito X1 that launched globally this morning. The listing, for the VooMax Breeze Standard Kit, offers a 1/1.32-inch CMOS sensor, f/1.7 aperture, 4K/60fps HDR video, forward-facing LiDAR, omnidirectional obstacle sensing,…
Prosecutors say the Woodland Hills resident spent years brokering Iranian weapons including a $70 million contract for Mohajer-6 armed drones
A US Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone spent more than 12 hours orbiting the coast of Cuba on April 16, tracing a pattern that passed Havana, Guantanamo
DJI pushed the Mic Mini 2 live on its Hong Kong product page one week before the teased April 28 global reveal, confirming that the “More Than Sound” campaign is a second-generation wireless microphone, not an accessory refresh or a Mic 3 successor. The DJI listing is live with full specs, five configurations, and ten…
Operation Epic Fury has cost the US Air Force 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones since late February. At roughly $30 million per airframe, the losses add up to around $720 million in hardware alone, as National Interest reports. Iranian surface-to-air missiles are doing most of the shooting, and the clusters of lost drones map almost perfectly…
DJI Lito X1 launches on April 23. That’s in four days. Somebody apparently forgot to tell Speedy Drone in Toronto, because their product page for the Lito X1 has been live for a while now, complete with a full spec sheet, a comparison chart, an FAQ section, and sample photos allegedly shot on the drone…
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a new drone enforcement program on April 16, 2026, that offers first-time individual violators reduced civil penalties or shorter certificate suspensions in exchange for admitting liability and surrendering their right to appeal. The Drone Expedited and Targeted Enforcement Response program, known as DETER, was published in a press release the…
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