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North Richland Hills Police Launch Skydio DFR Trial
North Richland Hills police are launching a Skydio Drone as First Responder trial this month, putting eyes on accident scenes and active emergencies before the first patrol unit arrives. Two docking stations will sit at a strategic central location in…
Echodyne Lands $490M Air Force Counter-Drone Deal as Ukraine’s Cheap Acoustics Spawn North American Rivals
The radar that can spot a quadcopter the size of a dinner plate at five kilometers is now wired into a $490 million U.S. Air Force counter-drone program. Echodyne, the Kirkland, Washington company behind the laptop-sized EchoShield radar, confirmed in…
The R7 Is A Chinese AI Drone-Killer You Can Buy In America. The FCC Says Hardware Like It Is Banned.
A Hong Kong seller is listing a Chinese-built autonomous interceptor drone on eBay for $6,999, shipping to U.S. addresses by UPS Ground, with payment plans starting around $336 a month. The listing, for a system called the R7 Portable AI…
Russia’s Yolka And A $6,999 eBay Drone-Killer: What The New York Post Got Right About The Threat, And Wrong
A New York Post opinion piece published June 4 argues that the cheap interceptor drones now shooting down attack drones over Ukraine and Russia represent an emerging threat to civilian aviation, and that copycat versions are already turning up on…
EHang Flies 22,580 Drones, Breaks Guinness Record
EHang shattered the Guinness World Record for drone light shows on February 3, 2026, flying 22,580 drones simultaneously from a single computer over Hefei’s Luogang Park. Of the swarm loaded for launch, only about 25 drones failed to lift off.…
Hezbollah Imports Ukraine’s Fiber-Optic Drone Playbook, and Israel Has No Jammer for It
Hezbollah is now killing Israeli soldiers with the same fiber-optic FPV drones that reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine, and Israel’s main counter-drone tool, electronic jamming, does nothing to stop them. Since April 2026, drones guided by thin optical cables have…
Good Drone Company Picks Kenya For Its First Real Logistics Network, Targeting Cargo Zipline Skips
The Good Drone Company has signed an exclusive partnership with Kenyan operator ThatcherX to fly autonomous cargo drones across Kenya, and the timing tells you where this is headed. The deal landed days after the two ran an inaugural flight…
China Tests ‘Scan-And-Fly’ Drone Clearance In Shanghai And Sichuan As Beijing Stays Locked Down
China is rolling out a WeChat fast-track for low-risk drone flights in Shanghai and Sichuan, the same week reporting confirmed its capital remains under a near-total flight ban. The split tells you everything about how Beijing now governs the technology…
FAA World Cup Drone TFRs Now Cover Boise, Louisville, And Utah, Hundreds Of Miles From Any Match
The FAA has switched on more than 100 drone-only Temporary Flight Restrictions for FIFA World Cup 2026 team hotels and training camps, and a large share of them sit in cities that are not hosting a single match. Boise, Idaho.…
Westmag Raises $11M To Build American Drone Motors, Betting Scale Beats China On Price
Westmag emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $11 million in seed funding to manufacture drone motors and robot actuators in South San Francisco, aiming squarely at the one part of the American drone supply chain almost no one has tried…
Pentagon Bets Its Drone Arsenal On Racers, Hobbyists, And Two Ukrainian Firms
The Pentagon is staking the next generation of American combat airpower on a company that once analyzed grass on golf courses, a firm with roots in aerial light shows, and a startup run by a 23-year-old former drone racing world…
Heligan Report Warns Counter-Drone Defenses Are Starved, But the Government Spending Numbers Tell a More Complicated Story
A consultancy report distributed this week puts a hard number on something drone operators have watched develop for two years: the money flowing into building drones dwarfs the money flowing into stopping them. The report’s author argues that imbalance has…
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