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Hillsborough Blood Drones Launch in October, Flown From Sarasota
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue starts flying whole blood to trauma scenes by drone in October. County commissioners approved the program on September 2, and Fire Rescue demonstrated it for reporters...
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Neros Wins $100M Pentagon Order, Plus 800 Drones Rivals Didn't Deliver
Neros Technologies announced on Wednesday, September 30, that the Department of War has ordered 14,000 drones and explosive payloads from it through Gauntlet II of the Drone Dominance Program, an award...
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Amprius Gets $75M Pentagon Drone Battery Grant, Mostly Unfunded
Amprius Technologies will convert an American electric vehicle battery line into a drone cell factory with a Department of War grant of up to $75 million, the Fremont, California company announced on...
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DJI Avata 360 Can't Fly Acro. An FPV Pilot Still Calls It Enough
FPV pilot Kai Vertigoh, whose YouTube channel has 260,000 subscribers, published a test of the DJI Avata 360 on September 28 arguing that the 455-gram 360-degree drone can replace several drones for...
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DoorDash Air Drone Lands Chipotle and Popeyes, but No Payload Number
DoorDash unveiled the aircraft behind DoorDash Air on Wednesday at Dash Forward, its annual product event. The drone flies on six slow-spinning propellers and lowers orders to the ground on a winch....
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Tallahassee Commissioner Urged Amazon Drone Rules. Florida Law Says No
Tallahassee City Commissioner Dianne Williams-Cox was asked at a September 28 candidate forum whether Amazon Prime Air’s planned drone delivery service should be regulated. “So, absolutely, it needs to...
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Pentagon Opens $450M Attack-Drone Round With A 400-Drone Deadline
The Department of War opened Phase 3 of the Drone Dominance Program on Monday, September 28, with $450 million for roughly 60,000 attack drones and an option to buy up to 40,000 more. Companies compete...
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Amazon Drone Hub Faces Pause Call From Lawmakers as State Sues FAA
Three Massachusetts state lawmakers have asked Amazon to pause its proposed Prime Air drone delivery hub in Westborough until the company answers residents on operating hours, flight paths, service...
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Lodi NJ Drone Ban Is Preempted, Judge Rules, But Pilot Gets No Order
A federal judge in Newark held on September 24 that the Borough of Lodi, New Jersey cannot enforce its 2025 drone ordinance, which bans drones below 400 feet across the whole town, because the Federal...
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FAA Sued by 15 States Over Drone Delivery Clearance Amazon Runs On
Fifteen states and Harris County, Texas sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday, September 28, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to throw out the agency’s nationwide...
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Matternet M3 Drone Lifts 11 Pounds, Has No FAA Certificate Yet
Matternet unveiled M3 on Monday, a delivery drone that carries up to 11 pounds (5 kg) within a 10-mile (16 km) radius and flies from a rooftop dock with nobody on site. The Mountain View company named...
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Amazon Told Pflugerville Drones Take No Images. Its Own Site Disagrees
Amazon told the Pflugerville City Council on September 22 that its MK30 delivery drones cannot take pictures. Amazon’s own Prime Air operations page, live on Amazon.com as of September 28, says people,...
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North Haven Amazon Drones: How to File With CT DEEP Before Oct. 1
Residents of North Haven, Hamden, Wallingford and New Haven have until Thursday, October 1, to file a comment with Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection on Amazon’s plan to...
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Northglenn Drafts Colorado's First Drone Rules. Wing Can Fly In Anyway
Northglenn, Colorado, is on track to become the first city in the state with an ordinance written specifically for drone delivery, and it is writing the rules before anyone has filed to fly. The...
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Russia's Geran-4 Runs On A $25,000 Hobby Jet, Texas Instruments Chips
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s investigative team Schemes took apart a Russian Geran-4 Seeker that came down almost intact in Ukraine and found a Chinese turbojet, a Chinese mesh modem, two cellular...
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DSPA Breaks Charter to Take DHS Blue UAS Report to Congress
The Drone Service Providers Alliance has gone outside its own charter to ask every drone pilot and first responder in the country to call Congress about the Department of Homeland Security’s Blue UAS...
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Amazon Faces 92% Opposition in Westborough Drone Survey, Calls Urged
An independent survey of residents around Amazon’s proposed Prime Air drone hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, had 853 responses at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, September 28, and 92% of them oppose the...
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Amazon Won't Say When Tracy Drones Fly. It Said Within a Month
Amazon did not give Tracy, California a start date for Prime Air drone deliveries when a newspaper asked for one. The Stockton Record asked the company when flights from its East Grant Line Road...
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Ukraine Air-Drops Kamikaze Robots 12 Miles Behind Russian Lines
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps is flying explosive ground robots across the front line under heavy bomber drones and dropping them as far as 12 miles (19 kilometers) into Russian-held territory in northern...
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DJI Matrice 5TD Surfaces In China Filing, 750 g Heavier Than 4TD
The DJI Matrice 5TD now has a name in an official record. A registration entry on China’s civil drone platform lists the aircraft as “DJI Matrice 5TD,” model code M5TD, at 2.6 kg (5.7 lb) empty and...
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