
A fighter jet that needs no runway is a step closer to flight. Shield AI and GE Aerospace say they have completed engine light-off testing for the X-BAT. It is an AI-piloted strike aircraft, built to take off and land vertically. The two firms announce…

Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC’s getting ready to wield that power for the first time, by cracking down on the “DJI front companies” suspected of […]

Phantom Twist doesn’t use camouflage to hide. Instead, this drone spins so fast that human eyes can’t resolve its shape. It’s a clever piece of engineering, although a working camera remains an unsolved problem.

Researchers from Northwestern University in Illinois have built a drone that rotates so fast it is cloaked by motion blur.
Russian drone troops are adding cheap magnetic compasses to help find their bearings. Crude add-on helps them find their bearings and locate their targets even without GPS.

A micro-drone designed to locate and eradicate mosquitoes has passed an important milestone with its first recorded air-to-air kill.
Y Combinator-backed startup Tornyol has built a tiny autonomous drone that tracks mosquitoes by sonar and kills them mid-flight, with preorders open now. We look at the tech, the pricing, and the questions it raises about where the targeting stops.

The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing concerns that drones can hide among wind turbines and evade radar detection. The affected projects have a combined capacity of 44 g…

Zipline said the number of businesses offering delivery through its app grew 13 times during the first half of 2026. The autonomous drone delivery company has now completed more than 2.5 million commercial deliveries, including one million in the last …
Ukrainian FP-1 drones struck the Gazprom Neft oil refinery in Omsk, Siberia, on July 6 after flying roughly 2,500 km over more than 12 hours.