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Corrections log
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2026-10-22Textron and Merlin Unveil an Uncrewed SkyCourier for Contested Logistics
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article described a forward-loading cargo ramp and cargo architecture as existing features of the baseline SkyCourier, and said SkyCouriers had been delivered to U.S. military customers under utility airlift contracts. Janes describes the nose-opening, forward-loading layout as a design concept under evaluation, and The War Zone says the SkyCourier has flown for FedEx, foreign special operations forces and small remote commercial airlines. The article now says so.
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2026-10-22FCC's '$5 Billion' Drone Manufacturing Claim Mixes Pledges With Real Capital, Filing Shows
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said DA 26-758 narrowed the pending drone proceeding to a "military-grade" subset; it opens a separate, additional proceeding (PS Docket No. 26-189), and the July 17 proceeding also covered Section 1709 communications and video surveillance equipment. It also presented Chairman Carr's motor-and-battery remark as pushback on the drone ban; Communications Daily reported it in the context of the FCC's action on foreign-produced robots, and the quote is now given in full.
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2026-10-22DHS Stands Up New PEO to Fast-Track Drone and Counter-Drone Buys, Seeking Cloud-Independent, Encrypted Small UAS
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article called the PEO a "year-old" office, said the PEO itself would spotlight counter-drone work at the Homeland Security Summit, and put the Summit seven weeks after the RFI deadline. The office was announced Jan. 12, 2026, about eight months before publication; the Summit panels are hosted by the Potomac Officers Club, per GovCon Wire; and Nov. 10 falls about five weeks after the Oct. 5 deadline.
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2026-10-22FCC's '$5 Billion' Drone Manufacturing Claim Mixes Pledges With Real Capital, Filing Shows
An earlier version of this article said DA 26-758 narrowed the pending drone proceeding to a "military-grade" subset; it opens a separate, additional proceeding (PS Docket No. 26-189), and the July 17 proceeding also covered Section 1709 communications and video surveillance equipment. It also presented Chairman Carr's motor-and-battery remark as pushback on the drone ban; Communications Daily reported it in the context of the FCC's action on foreign-produced robots, and the quote is now given in full.
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2026-10-22Civil Liberties Groups Urge D.C. Circuit to Vacate FAA's Rescinded Drone-Journalism Restriction
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said a journalist could violate the restriction regardless of altitude, distance from any secured facility or flight path, and that only a formal vacatur would foreclose the FAA from reissuing the restriction. The EFF post says only that the restriction effectively criminalized recording DHS officers and their vehicles even if the drone was over half a mile away, and that vacatur would send a message that the government cannot avoid accountability by rescinding a restriction.
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2026-10-22Skydio Bets on Infrastructure, Not Just Drones, With F10 Lightrunner and MegaDock
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said neither Skydio nor DroneDJ detailed the feature sets of Asset Command and Security Command and inferred their direction from the names, and described MegaDock as carrying a recurring software subscription. Skydio's announcement describes both software platforms in detail, and no source mentions a subscription or pricing model; the article now reflects this.
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2026-10-22Tekever Hits $6.4 Billion Valuation as University of California Leads First-Ever Direct European Bet
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said CNBC described the $580 million as the opening piece of a larger Series D and said UC Investments and Baillie Gifford provided the bulk of the capital. CNBC reports only that the two led the round alongside the other named investors; the first-close detail comes from Tech.eu and DroneXL, and no source says how much each investor contributed.
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2026-10-22'It's Like a Beehive Up There': Richardson Residents Revolt Over Amazon Drone Noise as Prime Air Eyes 500 Cities
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article attributed to the FAA a claim of exclusive authority over drone flight paths, altitudes and noise, and said the FAA's nationwide package-delivery environmental review was "still being developed" with only a "project-specific" version completed for North Carolina. The FAA's page says Congress charged it with integrating drones into the National Airspace System in 2012; the limit on city authority is reported by GeekWire and Yahoo News. The FAA says it is planning a national programmatic environmental assessment for package delivery and has prepared a programmatic assessment for North Carolina.
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2026-10-22Army Taps Vulcan Elements for Rare-Earth Magnets to Power SkyFoundry Drone Motors
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said industry partners supplied the Army's motors, said the Tobyhanna line replaced buying finished motors from outside vendors, and said the Army's motor line would produce a motor with no Chinese content at any stage, including windings and assembly. Jane's reports that the Army is responsible for airframes, batteries and propellers, industry for software and payloads, and that brushless motors were to be the first part the Army produced itself. The sources address only the magnets' domestic supply, not windings or other components. The article now says so.
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2026-10-22Flytrex Parks Delivery Drones on Restaurant Roofs to Cut Costs 60%
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the FTX-M600P is the aircraft used on the rooftop docks and that a three-year certification process had been completed, described the FAA as permitting the operations in Flytrex's proposed concept of operations, and said the rooftop model was a reason for Uber's 2025 investment. The Federal Register notice sets airworthiness criteria for a pending application and describes the concept of operations as Flytrex's proposal, DroneDJ does not name the rooftop aircraft, and PYMNTS gives no reason for Uber's investment. The article now says so.
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2026-10-22CIA Warns Europe of Russian Plot to Launch Drones From Mediterranean Vessels
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Defense News and C4ISRNET independently reported the El Mundo account and that Macron convened the Defense Council specifically over the reports. The outlets relayed El Mundo's report, which has not been independently corroborated, and the sources say only that the Sept. 16 Defense Council and Sept. 18 meetings coincided with the reported CIA warning. The article now says so.
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2026-10-22Michigan's Camp Grayling Pitches Itself to Directed-Energy Developers as One of Four Army Industry Test Ranges
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Camp Grayling had become the Army's go-to range for laser and microwave counter-drone tests, was running directed-energy testing under a Pentagon initiative, and let testers legally fire directed-energy weapons and jam GPS in ways not possible elsewhere. The sources report that the Army named Camp Grayling one of four premier stateside ranges open to private industry, that Michigan is inviting directed-energy developers to submit test requirements, and that the only event reported, the Sept. 13-18 DDIL exercise, tested drone autonomy software under jamming, not directed-energy weapons. The Permissive Range Initiative is an Army program. The article has been corrected.
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2026-10-22Charlotte Drone Pilot's Guilty Plea Shows How Far a 2018 Runway Law Reaches
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said prosecutors needed only to prove an unauthorized flight and that "I didn't know" is not a defense, omitting that the statute covers knowingly flying without authorization; it also said Part 107 provisions do not apply and the airspace is closed to all drones inside a runway exclusion zone. The article now says the statute makes knowingly flying without authorization a crime, and that pilots with a genuine need can seek FAA authorization, most often through LAANC.
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2026-10-22Russia's Jet-Powered Geran Drones Now Outpace the Piston-Engine Model That Started the War
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article cited a figure of roughly 2,800 monthly Geran-2 units that the cited sources do not report, and said Kyiv Post independently confirmed that jet-powered output had overtaken piston-engine output for the first time. It now says Kyiv Post relayed the Militarnyi inquiry and the 3,000-a-month figure, and that the Kyiv Independent reports HUR assesses jet-powered production had surpassed Geran-2 production by August 2026.
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2026-10-22Amazon Prime Air Lands in Cleveland's Backyard — 3 Miles From Zipline's Drone Pharmacy, With No FAA Environmental Review on File
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article put "authorized by the FAA" in quotation marks as Amazon's words; that wording is DroneXL's paraphrase, and the article now attributes it to DroneXL without quotation marks. It also said the FAA's NEPA page was last updated Sept. 24, 2026, which no cited source supports; it now says the page carried no Cleveland entry when DroneXL checked it on Sept. 25.
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2026-10-22Task Force Falcon Strike Gains Its First Named Member: Bahrain Commits as CENTCOM Builds a Multinational One-Way Attack Drone Force
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article attributed to the Gulf Daily News a statement that Falcon Strike arrived nine months after Scorpion Strike, and said the newspaper listed 11 countries as invited partners. The Gulf Daily News report contains neither; the gap is roughly eight months by the Army Times and Janes dates, and no source names the invited countries.
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2026-10-22Textron and Merlin Unveil an Uncrewed SkyCourier for Contested Logistics
Correction: An earlier version of this article described a forward-loading cargo ramp and cargo architecture as existing features of the baseline SkyCourier, and said SkyCouriers had been delivered to U.S. military customers under utility airlift contracts. Janes describes the nose-opening, forward-loading layout as a design concept under evaluation, and The War Zone says the SkyCourier has flown for FedEx, foreign special operations forces and small remote commercial airlines. The article now says so.
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2026-10-22British Army's 10,000-Drone Buy Bets on Manual Pilots, Not the Newest Hardware
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article described Lt. Col. Matt Keogh as the officer running Project Rapstone and said the British Army, by its own account, fields a small footprint of front-line attack drones. The sources describe Keogh only as a commander involved in the effort and do not say that about the Army's attack drone fleet; both claims have been removed.
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2026-10-22Ukraine's 93rd Brigade Runs the First Amphibious Robot Resupply Mission, a 40 km Trip Across Land and Water
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said a department of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense asked the unit to solve the water-crossing problem. In the interview with The War Zone, Electric said another unit of the Armed Forces made the request. The article now says so.
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2026-10-22Japan's First-Ever Global Hawk Crash Cuts Its Surveillance Drone Fleet by a Third
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article referred to "Friday's crash." The crash occurred on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, and the article now says so.
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2026-10-22Round Rock Has No Zoning Rule for Zipline's Drone Hub, and the FAA's Draft Assessment Assumes Local Zoning Will Handle It
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article listed a phone number for Zipline as the line for residents' operational complaints. Zipline told DroneXL that the number, which appeared on the City of Round Rock's page, is an emergency line shared with government and first responders and was published by the city in error. The article now says only that residents are directed to Zipline.
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2026-10-22Army Says Merops Interceptor Went From Urgent Need to Program in 142 Days, at About $15,000 a Shot
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said, in the TWZ attribution, that the system was developed under Project Eagle with Swift Beat. None of the cited sources mentions Swift Beat, and Project Eagle is a former name of the developer, not a project. The article now says the system was originally developed by Perennial Autonomy.
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2026-10-22Philly Suburbs' Police Drones: Upper Darby and Bensalem Cite Results While Lower Merion Requests $375,000
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article described Upper Darby's drone program as the most established. Upper Darby is the latest department in the region to adopt drones, launching its program this summer, while Bensalem has flown drones since 2024. The article now says so.
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2026-09-29Nasdaq-Listed Quantum Cyber Bets Its Future on Interceptor Drones and a 100,000-Unit-a-Year Connecticut Factory
An earlier version of this article gave QUCY's Sept. 25 close as $1.37, attributed to Yahoo Finance, and said Stocktitan tied Executive Order 14307 to the quantum antenna. It also said the company had spent a year assembling a portfolio that it was now discarding. The article now reports a 3.01% gain on Sept. 25 per StockTitan, drops the unsupported Stocktitan attribution, and says the company is narrowing its focus and de-emphasizing maritime and other exploratory programs, per the SEC filing.
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2026-09-29At Yuma, NORTHCOM Ran Its Counter-Drone Test on Anduril's Lattice, Hosted by the Test Organization
An earlier version of this article said the government rents or does not own Lattice, said past Falcon Peaks used vendor-proprietary command-and-control stacks, placed the Dronebuster at the exercise, and said the Sept. 25 DefenseScoop report came two days after the exercise ended. DefenseScoop reports only that this was the first Falcon Peak with Lattice as the baseline and the test organization hosting it, that at least 20 vendors took part, and that JIATF-401 selected Lattice under an $87 million Army Enterprise Agreement; the Sept. 25 report was published as the exercise was ending.
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2026-09-29Amazon Prime Air Lands in Cleveland's Backyard — 3 Miles From Zipline's Drone Pharmacy, With No FAA Environmental Review on File
An earlier version of this article said the FAA had authorized Amazon for up to 1,000 flights per day at its Chicago site. The FAA page shows only a draft environmental assessment in which Amazon proposes up to 1,000 flights per operating day from each of three proposed centers. It also cited waivers that no source mentions, and presented the FAA's July 28 review change as the likely reason North Randall has no public review. It now cites Amazon's Part 135 certification, and DroneXL does not say North Randall was cleared under that change.
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