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A Silicon Valley Founder Exposed Why U.S. Drone Manufacturing Won’t Scale Anytime Soon
I’ve been reading a lot of optimistic press releases about American drone independence lately. The Pentagon wants a million drones. Executive orders promise to unleash domestic production. Politicians declare that we’re breaking free from Chinese supply chains. Then a defense-tech…
Las Vegas Police Now Run America’s Largest Drone Program, But Won’t Say What It Costs
I’ve been tracking drone-as-first-responder programs across the country for years, and the numbers Las Vegas Metropolitan Police unveiled this week stop me cold. Ten thousand drone flights in 2025. More than any other law enforcement agency in the United States.…
AAIB’s “Record-Only” Kent Police Drone Crash Investigation Raises Troubling Questions About UK Police Drone Oversight
I’ve spent the morning going through the Air Accident Investigation Branch’s newly released findings on the Kent Police drone crash that injured a child last August, and I’m genuinely troubled by what I’m reading. While the headlines are focused on…
DJI Avata 360 Leaks Hint at a Very Near Launch
Fresh leaked images of what appears to be the DJI Avata 360 are making the rounds, and if these photos are telling the truth, DJI is no longer just flirting with 360 degree video. It is fully committed. The images…
Super Bowl LX: FAA Grounds Drones Hard
Super Bowl Sunday is famous for wings, commercials, and at least one friend explaining formations like they invented football. Super Bowl LX, happening February 8, 2026 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, adds one more tradition to the list: aggressively…
Leaptic Cube Brings 8K Madness to a Thumb-Sized Camera
CES 2026 has barely opened its doors and someone already decided subtlety was overrated. Dreame Technology, better known for making very smart things that clean floors while judging your life choices, has officially entered the action camera arena with the…
YouTuber Jeven Dovey Warns Content Creators: FCC Drone Ban Is Worse Than You Think
I’ve been watching content creators slowly wake up to the reality of the FCC’s December 23 drone ban, and adventure filmmaker Jeven Dovey just delivered one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen for the YouTube community. His message is straightforward…
Eric Schmidt’s AI Drones Hit 70% Kill Rate as Commercial Tech Goes to War
The drone skills you learned for your Part 107 business are now battlefield capabilities. That’s the uncomfortable reality buried in a massive New York Times investigation published this week, and it should concern every commercial operator in America. C.J. Chivers…
Hong Kong may get passenger drones by 2027, keep arms inside the aircraft
Hong Kong has been easing into the drone era politely. First medical deliveries. Then a few food runs. Very civilized. No airborne chaos. No dystopian sky traffic jams yet but the city is clearly done with baby steps. At the…
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works Shows Off AI That Can Replan a Drone Mission Mid-Flight
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works just ran a live AI demonstration that hits on one of the hardest problems in autonomy – the unknown of what happens when an unmanned mission goes sideways. In the demonstration, Lockheed’s AI-driven contingency management software…
US Army’s 10th Mountain Division Goes All In on Attack Drones
The US Army’s 10th Mountain Division has quietly crossed an important line, moving from simply using drones as flying eyes to treating them as frontline weapons, with the formal activation of a brand new unit dedicated entirely to offensive drone…
FBI launches national counter drone training center
The FBI has quietly flipped the switch on a new national hub designed to deal with one of aviation’s fastest growing gray zones, illegal and hostile drone activity over US airspace. Called the National Counter UAS Training Center, or NCUTC,…