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Amazon Prime Air hosts community meet-and-greet in Tinley Park ahead of Chicago suburbs drone delivery launch
Amazon is bringing its Prime Air drone delivery service to Chicago’s south suburbs this summer, and the company wants to introduce itself to the neighbors first. As Patch reports, a free community meet-and-greet is scheduled for Monday, March 2 at…
UC Irvine’s FlyTrap Attack Defeats DJI Mini 4 Pro and HoverAir X1 Autonomous Tracking With an Ordinary Umbrella
The paper dropped this week at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, and the finding is blunt: an ordinary umbrella covered with an AI-generated pattern can trick autonomous target-tracking drones into flying directly toward the person…
Orlando approves $6.83M Skydio drone program after trial drone beat officers to the scene one-third of the time
The Orlando City Council voted Monday to approve a $6.83 million Drone as First Responder program built on Axon’s Skydio platform. The decision comes after a seven-week pilot at OPD headquarters produced a striking result: a single drone arrived before…
Illinois bill requires sex offenders to register drones with state police
Illinois Rep. Katie Stuart (D-112th) has introduced HB4332, a bill that would force individuals on the state’s Sex Offender Registry to disclose drone ownership to the Illinois State Police. The bill amends the Illinois Sex Offender Registration Act to add…
DJI hired Biden’s former Solicitor General and a former FCC enforcement chief to fight the drone ban
Everyone covered the lawsuit. Almost nobody reported on what the filing actually says. The actual court document DJI submitted to the Ninth Circuit on February 20 reveals something far more interesting than the company’s legal arguments: it reveals who DJI…
West Point’s former Army vice chief: Russian troops surrendered to machines, not humans
The timing of this essay says as much as the content. Published today by West Point’s Modern War Institute, retired General James Mingus and Lieutenant Colonel Maggie Harris lay out what readers of this site have watched unfold in real…
DJI takes FCC to court: the government had a year to prove a threat and never bothered
DJI is done waiting for Washington to play fair. Two months after the FCC added all foreign-made drones to its Covered List, the world’s largest drone manufacturer has taken the fight to federal court, filing a petition with the U.S.…
ZEUS VTOL targets GNSS denied missions in Poland
Europe’s tactical UAV segment just got more serious. UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía and Ekolot Aerospace & Defense have expanded their collaboration to integrate advanced flight control systems into the ZEUS VTOL platform, a modular fixed wing system designed for operations where…
Germany Weighs MQ-28 And Valkyrie Drones For 2029 CCA
Germany is shopping for a robotic wingman that can fight, strike, think, and still find its way home if the signal goes dark. According to United24 Media, Berlin is evaluating several unmanned aerial vehicles for a future unmanned fighter bomber…
FAA shuts down El Paso airspace, DJI VP detained in China, Kansas City counter-drone bill, and drone pilot faces federal charges
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week, and they’re quite interesting. First up, the FAA abruptly shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas. A former DJI VP has been detained in…
Swarm Aero Opens Arkansas UAV Plant
A new drone factory just fired up its engines in the American heartland. California based startup Swarm Aero has opened an 80,000 square foot Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas, positioning Northwest Arkansas as a rising node…
Rockbridge First Responders Embrace DJI Matrice 30T and Autel 640T
In Rockbridge, Virginia, first responders have found a new partner that does not drink coffee, does not complain about overtime, and can hover over a cornfield at midnight without blinking. The Rockbridge Regional Public Safety Communications Center has quietly built…