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Fire Point's $2. 5 Billion UAE Deal Rejected Before It Could Begin
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (196+ words) Fire Point co-founder Denys Shtilerman told Reuters just days before the committee's response that the deal was still under active review, with a decision deadline of around October. That account is now outdated. The deal is dead, at least in…...
First DJI Pocket 4 Unboxing Points To April 16 Launch
23+ hour, 40+ min ago (823+ words) The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 just went from packaging leaks to hands-on video. The first unboxing footage of the upcoming gimbal camera has surfaced on You Tube, and it includes a specific claim: the official launch date is April 16, 2026. If that…...
Terra Drone Invests In Ukraine's Amazing Drones And Launches Terra A1 Interceptor To Target The Global Defense Market
15+ hour, 53+ min ago (420+ words) That calculus matters more than it used to. As we covered in March, Western militaries keep buying expensive platforms while adversaries manufacture millions of sub-$1, 000 attack drones. A $13. 5 million Patriot PAC-3 MSE intercept against a $35, 000 Shahed is the math no…...
Drone Catches Fleeing Driver In Beaverton Backyards
23+ hour, 39+ min ago (1051+ words) A hit-and-run suspect who crashed into two cars and ran through residential yards in Beaverton, Oregon, didn't get far. Washington County's new Drone as First Responder program tracked him from above and guided deputies straight to him. The arrest on…...
General Cherry And Orqa Sign Mo U To Build Counter-Drone Systems On European Soil
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (853+ words) Drone XL. co Ukraine's General Cherry and Croatian drone manufacturer Orqa have signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly develop and manufacture interceptor drones and counter-drone systems in Europe, according to Unmanned Airspace. The agreement pairs General Cherry's three years of…...
Hermeus Raises $350 M To Build The Fastest Unmanned Aircraft In The World
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (332+ words) The long-term target: surpass the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird's air-breathing speed record of Mach 3. 32, set in 1976, and eventually reach Mach 5. That would put the company in hypersonic territory, a capability the Department of Defense has funded through contracts including the Defense…...
The Verge Confirms What We've Been Saying: Nobody Is Replacing DJI, And Drones Are Now For War
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (649+ words) The article's subtitle says it plainly: "DJI is banned in the United States and nobody is coming to save you." The Verge piece confirms a pattern Drone XL has tracked across dozens of articles over the past year: the financial…...
BBC's Secret 950-Drone Titanic Stuns Belfast Harbor
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (928+ words) A full-scale ghost ship sailed out of Belfast Harbour last week, and almost nobody in the city knew it was coming. The BBC used 950 drones to recreate the RMS Titanic above the very waters where the original ship was built,…...
WSJ Exposes Chinese Parts Inside America's Humanoid Robots, And Congress Is Already Running The DJI Playbook
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (281+ words) With drones, DJI captured roughly 70-80% of the U. S. market before the FCC added all foreign-made drones to its Covered List in December 2025. No federal agency completed the security audit that Congress mandated under Section 1709 of the FY25 NDAA. DJI was banned by…...
Oregon Tells FCC: Build Drone Test Sites In Mountains, Not Just Labs
3+ day, 5+ min ago (246+ words) Section V of the filing is the most politically loaded. Oregon acknowledges national security concerns about foreign-produced drones but asks the FCC to preserve continuity of public-service operations and provide a "simple risk appropriate waiver process" during the transition. The…...