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Pentagon Laser Shoots Down CBP Drone Near El Paso, Exposing a Deeper Government Coordination Failure
The Department of Defense used a high-energy laser to destroy a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone over Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday, February 26, according to four officials who spoke to The New York Times. The FAA responded…
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.…
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…
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…
Eric Trump Backs Low Cost Per Kill Drone Deal
Israeli drone maker XTEND is heading to the public markets through a $1.5 billion reverse merger with Florida based JFB Construction Holdings, a Nasdaq listed contractor whose core business until now has had little to do with defense robotics, as…
Drone Pilot Charged After Flying Over “Second Pentagon”
A drone pilot in Maryland is now facing federal charges after allegedly flying over one of the most sensitive military sites in the United States and posting the footage to his YouTube channel, as FOX Baltimore reports. According to an…
FAA shut down El Paso airspace for 10 days over Pentagon laser test gone wrong
The FAA grounded every flight in and out of El Paso International Airport late Tuesday night, classifying the airspace as “National Defense Airspace” with deadly force authorization. The restriction was set to last 10 days. It lasted about eight hours.…
AUVSI expands its lobbying playbook from drones to robots with new Capitol Hill partnership
The same organization that spent the last two years pushing to ban Chinese drones from U.S. skies now wants to shape federal robotics policy. The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) launched the Partnership for Robotics Competitiveness (PfRC) on…
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…
DJI vs. TikTok: The Chinese Drone Giant Tried a US Strategy First, Then Abandoned It for Shell Companies
TikTok just pulled off what many considered impossible. On Thursday, ByteDance agreed to spin out a U.S. TikTok entity where non-Chinese investors will own approximately 80 percent of the American app. ByteDance keeps just 19.9 percent. The deal effectively neutralizes…
Drone News: Foreign Drone Ban Updates, DHS Creates Counter Drone Office, Super Bowl LX No-Fly Zone
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. An update on the foreign drone ban. A couple updates actually. The Department of Homeland Security is creating a new permanent counter drone office. And…