Motorola buys D-Fend weeks after DHS opens $1.5B contract
Motorola closed a $1.5B counter-drone acquisition on August 20, three weeks after DHS opened a contract worth the same amount to twelve companies.
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46 Police Agencies Are Certified. The Rule Expects 1,850.
The SAFER SKIES counter-UAS rule lets US police disable drones, but only about 46 agencies are trained against the 1,850 the government expects.
Why a Drone on a Houston Highway Triggered No FAA Report
A Zipline drone parachuted onto Highway 6 on 4 September. No injury, no $500 of damage and no airworthiness certificate means no mandatory report.
DoorDash got an airline licence and kept its drone partners
DoorDash won FAA Part 135 certification in July and starts flying its own drones this autumn. Wing and Flytrex are partners, and now suppliers.
Wing and Flytrex share Dallas airspace, but not emergencies
The two flew 8,000 overlapping flights over two Texas suburbs with no conflicts. Neither system tells the other when an aircraft is in trouble.
Volocopter's first product is now a two-seat ultralight
The company that was going to fly the Paris Olympics is certifying an aircraft for flying clubs. Supernal cut 80% of staff. Vertical trades at $0.60.
Dubai Certifies the First Purpose-Built Commercial Vertiport
The UAE's GCAA has certified VDX, the Skyports vertiport next to Dubai International, the first purpose-built commercial vertiport to be certified.
A trade association is the fast route onto the Blue UAS list
WISPR got Green UAS certification in February and was on the Pentagon's Blue UAS Cleared List ten weeks later. Four platforms joined in 2026.
US Drone Tariffs of Up to 100% Take Effect September 3
A Section 232 proclamation puts 100% duties on drones over 25kg and on thermal imagers, and 25% on everything lighter, starting September 3.
XTI Aerospace Warns of Going-Concern Doubt After CEO Resigns
XTI Aerospace told the SEC its late second-quarter 10-Q is expected to disclose going-concern doubt, days after chairman and CEO Scott Pomeroy resigned.
Ondas Books $83.8M Quarter, Raises Guidance to $550M
Ondas grew Q2 2026 revenue more than 13-fold to $83.8 million and lifted full-year guidance, while adjusted EBITDA losses widened to $50.6 million.
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Archer Buys Boeing's Wisk, Insitu and SkyGrid in eVTOL Shakeup
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Neros Raises $250M to Build Interceptors, Not Just FPV Drones
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Hidden Level Lands $100M OTA for Passive Counter-UAS Sensing
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AVPL International Opens Drone City Haryana in Hisar
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Rotron Aerospace SkyLance Loitering Munition Passes First Tests
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Anduril Barracuda-500M: Army's New 500-Mile Cruise Missile Explained
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Anduril Raises $5B Series H, Valued at $61B
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Destinus Eyes Amsterdam IPO After €200M Raise at €5B Valuation
Defense
DZYNE Technologies Unveils Blitz, a Mass-Producible Kamikaze Drone
Defense
How Europe Is Integrating AI Into Its Military Forces in 2026
Defense
Iraq Unveils SARA 1 Rifle-Mounted Combat Drone
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Ondas Q1 Revenue Jumps 1,065% on Counter-Drone Demand
Defense
Pentagon Sends Personnel to Ukraine to Study Drone Warfare
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Safran and Baykar Sign Deal to Put French Sensors on TB2 Drones
Defense
Ukrainian Drone Teams Demolished NATO Forces in Sweden's Aurora 2026
Defense
US Army Requests $994M for Counter-Drone Tech in FY27
Defense
Anduril Gets $100M Boost for Space Surveillance Network Upgrade
Defense
The $50,000 Problem: How Cheap Drones Are Breaking Modern Air Defense
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Navy Pays $36.9M to HII for More Lionfish Underwater Drones
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Red Cat Q1 2026: Revenue Up 849% to $15.5M, NATO and Asia-Pacific Orders
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Coast Guard's $229M Shield AI V-BAT Contract Expands to Puerto Rico
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Terra Drone Wins Japan Defense Order for 300 Modular UAVs
Guides
The Best Personal Drone: What You Can Actually Buy in 2026
The best personal drones of 2026, ranked by use case — and which ones you are allowed to buy where you live, because in 2026 that is the harder question.
Counter-Drone Technology: How Militaries Defeat UAVs
Radar, jamming, lasers, interceptors and drone-on-drone — how counter-UAS works, who leads it, and who is legally allowed to shoot a drone down.
Drone Delivery Companies: Who's Flying What in 2026
Wing, Zipline, Amazon, Manna, Flytrex, Matternet, DroneUp — where they fly, what they deliver, and why certification was not the hard part.
Drone Stocks 2026: Every Publicly Traded Drone Company
Every publicly traded drone and eVTOL stock after the 2026 selloff: tickers, market caps, revenue, backlogs, and which businesses the numbers actually support.
Best Enterprise Drones for 2026: Every Platform Compared
Tariffs of 25-100% landed on 3 September and DJI replaced its enterprise lineup. What to buy now, what compliance actually costs, and what changed.
What Is eVTOL? The Complete Guide to Electric Air Taxis
What eVTOL means, how electric air taxis work, which companies are still standing after the 2026 shakeout, and when passengers will actually ride one.