Russia, Ukraine and Drones
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Well the good news is that you can still find the DJI Mini 4K drone on Amazon. It's listed for $299 and is being sold and shipped by thinkzone. We don't generally recommend third-party sellers, but thinkzone has a decent track record and times are tough when it comes to stock. We'll take what we can get at this point.
You know, everything you tell us will be used against you,” the interviewer on Russian TV warns Timur Shagivaleev, the man behind one of the country’s biggest drone factories.
The Scottsboro Police Department along with troopers assigned to ALEA’s Highway Patrol, federal partners including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other agencies searched for 29-year-old Daniel Victor McCarn.
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The Kyiv Independent on MSNUkraine to receive 33,000 AI drone kits under US defense deal, FT reportsUkraine will receive 33,000 artificial intelligence-powered drone kits by the end of the year under a new contract between the U.S. Defense Department and U.S.-German software firm Auterion, the Financial Times reported on July 27.
A solar-powered surveillance drone with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet could fly for weeks or months at a time, according to its operator, while watching for drug-smuggling vessels, pirates or naval warships. It has been performing test flights off the US Gulf Coast this month.
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Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by releasing more mosquitoes.
Auterion’s “strike kits” — miniature computers known as Skynode that run the company’s software and include a camera and radio — can transform manually controlled drones into “AI-powered weapons systems” that cannot be jammed and can track a moving target from as far away as 1km, said Meier.
With Chinese drones dominating the market, two startups are building US-made platforms from the ground up, no imports and no foreign parts.
DJI barely sells drones in the United States anymore. The shelves are bare; resellers are jacking up prices. It appears an unofficial ban at US customs is to blame. But on Amazon, you can now buy a drone that’s a a dead ringer for the DJI Mini 4 Pro — the SkyRover X1 — for a reasonable $758. And that’s probably because DJI made it happen.
Mayor Eric Adams said a new Drone Operations Committee will oversee an expanded use of drones in the Big Apple after success nabbing subway surfers.
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Interesting Engineering on MSNStudents 3D-print ‘hybrid drone’ that flies, swims, and resurfaces in secondsWatch a seamless cycle of takeoff, underwater cruise, and skyward reemergence in this student-built hybrid drone.