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An-28 Becomes World’s First Drone-Launching Drone Hunter
On April 23, footage from Ukrainian pilot Tymur Fatkullin showed an Antonov An-28 turboprop firing P1-SUN interceptor drone from underwing
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Minneapolis Drone Journalist Rob Levine Forces FAA To Pull No-Fly Zones That Followed Invisible ICE Vehicles Across America
Minneapolis drone journalist Rob Levine sued the FAA over no-fly zones around unmarked ICE vehicles and won. What changed, what didn't, and why it still matters.
FAA
Russia Builds Shahed Drones With Teen Labor at Alabuga
A 16-year-old named Darina stares into a YouTube camera and announces she’ll soon earn 150,000 rubles a month, roughly $2,000, assembling drones at what her recruiters call the world’s largest drone factory. Her parents are proud. She wants other teenagers to follow her in, as Coda Story reports. The factory is the Alabuga complex in…
Antigravity A1
Antigravity A1 Spring Update Delivers Omnidirectional Obstacle Avoidance, Voice Control, and Timelapse
Antigravity's A1 spring update adds omnidirectional obstacle avoidance, timelapse, voice control, and a revamped Auto Edit. Spring sale pricing also remains posted.
DJI
DJI Teases Mic Mini 2S With Internal Recording and Four-Transmitter Support, Skipping the US
DJI teases the Mic Mini 2S on the same day the Mic Mini 2 goes on sale, adding internal recording and four-transmitter support this summer.
DJI
Drones Hit Record Number of UK Air Ambulance Missions
The UK Civil Aviation Authority confirmed nine air ambulance flights were disrupted by drones flying too close to helicopters during emergency missions in 2025. That’s the highest annual figure ever recorded, up from six cases in 2024 and eight in 2023. In the worst incidents, lifesaving flights were delayed or aborted entirely, as AVWEB reports.…
NASA
NASA’s Dragonfly Octocopter Hits Three Build Milestones Ahead of 2028 Titan Launch
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is no longer a render. Over the past two months, the team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has bolted together the lander’s primary structure, dropped a full-scale parachute system over the Arizona desert, and finished testing the laser inside the science payload that will sniff Titan’s surface for the…
NASA
NASA Is Sending Organs by Drone, And It Actually Makes Sense
Right now that's a minimum of ninety minutes door-to-door if traffic cooperates. A drone? Straight line. Twenty minutes, maybe less. No traffic lights.
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