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.

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.

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.

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by releasing more mosquitoes.

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.

With Chinese drones dominating the market, two startups are building US-made platforms from the ground up, no imports and no foreign parts.

A 3D-printed hybrid drone can quickly transition between air and water thanks to variable pitch propellers. Watch a video of the drone in action.

The Army and other services are particularly interested in the Leonidas HPM’s potential as a defense against pop-up drone swarms, as Ukraine recently employed against Russia’s bomber fleet.

Watch a seamless cycle of takeoff, underwater cruise, and skyward reemergence in this student-built hybrid drone.