DJI
Every UASFeed story on DJI — across defense, counter-UAS, industry, commercial, policy, and tech, newest first.
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Industry & Contracts
Sam Altman-Backed Brinc Raises $125M to Put a 911 Response Drone on 80,000 Police and Fire Roofs
Motorola Solutions led a $125M round for public-safety drone maker Brinc on July 14, 2026, nearly doubling its valuation as a December 2025 FCC ruling froze DJI out of the U.S. market it's racing to capture.
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Policy & Regulation
The FCC Is About to Make DJI Impossible to Buy on Amazon — and Every Wireless Gadget Harder to Fake
The FCC votes July 22, 2026 on a Third Report and Order requiring marketplaces like Amazon to show FCC IDs at checkout and closing a "logic-bearing hardware" loophole that let Covered List components, including DJI's, back into U.S. commerce.
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Tech & Builds
DJI's New Parachute Turns the Matrice 400 Into a Compliant Flyer Over Crowds
DJI's AP100 parachute lets the Matrice 400 legally fly over crowds under EASA and UK CAA rules, deploying in under 600ms while costing only 6 minutes of flight time.
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Industry & Contracts
A Federal DJI Ban Just Cost One Oregon Police Department $18,000 a Drone — the Skydio Swap, Line by Line
Redmond, Oregon approved a $410,762, five-year financed Axon contract for six Skydio drones to replace its DJI fleet — a 3.5x price jump driven by the federal NDAA ban, not operational need.
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Tech & Builds
Dominion Energy Now Flies 50 Drones Over the U.S. Grid — a Live Test of Cellular BVLOS and Drone-in-a-Box Autonomy at Utility Scale
Dominion Energy has scaled to 50 drones — including 23 docked 'drone-in-a-box' units at substations — flown beyond visual line of sight over cellular networks from a central operations center, a concrete look at enterprise BVLOS past the pilot stage.
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Commercial & Delivery
Utilities Are Ditching DJI for Storm Response — and the Real BVLOS Bottleneck Turns Out to Be Data, Not Rules
At InnovateEnergy Week in Texas, UAS leads from Southern Company and Entergy described moving off DJI onto Blue UAS-vetted American drones — and warned that the binding constraint on scaling storm-response flights is data management, not the FAA's pending Part 108 BVLOS rule.
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Tech & Builds
Glass-to-Glass: The Physics of FPV Video Links Driving Ukraine’s Drone War
Analog FPV, a video technology whose roots trace to the 1970s, dominates Ukraine’s frontline drone strikes over HD digital systems. The reason comes down to milliseconds, spectrum physics, and how a signal degrades under jamming.
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Defense & Combat
ISIS Drone Warfare in Iraq and Syria: How Commercial Quadcopters Became a Military Weapon
In 2016, the Islamic State turned cheap commercial quadcopters into a documented, bureaucratized weapons program — the first non-state drone campaign to kill soldiers in combat and force NATO armies to rebuild air defense doctrine from scratch.
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Defense & Combat
Venezuela's 2018 Caracas Drone Attack: First Confirmed UAS Assassination Attempt
On August 4, 2018, two commercially available DJI Matrice 600 hexacopters loaded with C-4 targeted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at a military parade in Caracas — the first confirmed drone assassination attempt against a sitting head of state, executed for roughly $10,000 in off-the-shelf hardware.
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Counter-UAS
Soft Targets in the Air Age: The Drone Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
From a copper-wire-rigged DJI Mavic to a C-4-loaded platform aimed at a Nashville substation, drone attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure have moved from theoretical to documented — yet 93% of nuclear sites, 90% of oil refineries, and most major airports remain without active counter-UAS protection.
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Counter-UAS
What a Seized Drone Tells Investigators — and What It Doesn’t
From encrypted GPS logs and chip-off hardware extraction to battlefield component teardowns linking Shahed drones to U.S. suppliers, drone forensics has become a critical investigative discipline — one still building its standards as the threat accelerates.
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Counter-UAS
Geofencing and No-Fly Zones Explained: How Drone Airspace Controls Actually Work
On January 13, 2025, DJI stopped blocking its drones from flying into restricted airspace—ending a decade of hard firmware locks. Here is what replaced them: the FAA airspace stack, Remote ID enforcement, and where every layer of the system breaks down.
