A #Seattle startup called #Radical has flown a 120-foot-wide prototype #drone for the first time, marking one low-altitude step in its campaign to put #solar planes in the #stratosphere for long-duration missions. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/radical-full-size-prototype-stratospheric-drone-first-flight/ #Tech #AvGeek #Aerospace
Wewt! Sunn O))) was signed to Sub Pop and there's a new 12".
https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/eternitys-pillars-b-w-raise-the-chalice-reverential
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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It is the penultimate #BandCampFriday and a good day to help support the Aldercones by buying some of our weird music. It seems like the intersection of our fans and #drone #ambient #noise #music appreciators might exhausted, but if you're into that sort of musical thing please check out our bandcamps:
https://k-23.bandcamp.com (some eldrich-core drone noise ambient)
https://motherethernet.bandcamp.com (much more technoey)
Anyway check it out!
It is the penultimate #BandCampFriday and a good day to help support the Aldercones by buying some of our weird music. It seems like the intersection of our fans and #drone #ambient #noise #music appreciators might exhausted, but if you're into that sort of musical thing please check out our bandcamps:
https://k-23.bandcamp.com (some eldrich-core drone noise ambient)
https://motherethernet.bandcamp.com (much more technoey)
Anyway check it out!
marc0s
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“Italy redirects navy ship to assist Global Sumud Flotilla after drone attacks”
by The Cradle News Desk
@palestine
@israel @yemen @lebanon
@UKLabour
“Activists heard around 10 explosions after seeing drones target several of the flotilla’s boats off the coast of Greece”
#Press #Italy #Navy #Global #Sumud #Flotilla #Israel #Drone #Attacks #Gaza #Genocide
“Italy redirects navy ship to assist Global Sumud Flotilla after drone attacks”
by The Cradle News Desk
@palestine
@israel @yemen @lebanon
@UKLabour
“Activists heard around 10 explosions after seeing drones target several of the flotilla’s boats off the coast of Greece”
#Press #Italy #Navy #Global #Sumud #Flotilla #Israel #Drone #Attacks #Gaza #Genocide
#Drone attack in gang-controlled slum in #Haiti kills at least 8 children, injures 6 others
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-drone-attack-cite-soleil-children-killed-339677efb2e5926b182f1934fafd6e5e
> Explosive drones targeting a suspected gang leader killed at least eight children inside a slum in Haiti’s capital and seriously wounded six others, relatives and activists told The Associated Press on Monday, as they blamed police for the attack.
Plenty of these oil #refineries have been repaired (and hit again). But Ukraine is ramping up these attacks
This strategy represents the best chance to bring #Russia to heel on its #ethnofascist #imperialism. #Drone and #missile strikes on refineries
It's an endless game of cat and mouse:
AA, intelligence, and drone tech
And Russia is repairing furiously
But eventually, Ukraine could hit a level of enough incapacitated, and Russia unable to keep up, that real change happens
***** Lauren's Blog: The World Gets an Important New Drone That Can Save Lives -- But Thanks to Our Politicians Not in the USA *****
https://lauren.vortex.com/2025/09/17/politicians-block-lifesaving-drones-usa
Drone leader Chinese company DJI this morning announced a new drone in their economical but powerful "mini" drone lineup, the "Mini 5 Pro". Speculation and rumors about this product have been circulating online for many months, and on Monday the world got to see a short video tease telling that today at 8 am Eastern Time there would be an announcement. That is, unless you were in the USA, since accessing the DJI site from here, unlike the rest of the world, would not show that tease.
Because once again the administration and our bipartisan tech morons of Congress have forced DJI into the position of not officially making the new drone available here at all, as happened with a larger, more expensive new drone in their lineup recently.
The confluence of the insane self-imposed injuries of oppressive tariffs that must be paid by American consumers, bizarre customs blockages, and legislative and executive branch actions to target Chinese drone makers in general and DJI in particular, are turning us into a laughingstock when it comes to this important tech.
Law enforcement, search and rescue, and other public safety organizations depend on these (normally) easily accessible drones, and it is likely that lives and property will be lost by their being cut out from this new drone, which brings for the first time a larger one inch camera sensor, and LIDAR for advanced obstacle avoidance and the ability to "return to home" in many well-lit environments even if GPS satellite signals are lost.
The U.S.'s claims of security concerns regarding DJI drones have never to been shown to be reality. The rest of the world, including U.S. allies, apparently don't have these fake concerns -- so their citizens will get the benefit of this new drone, while we're at the mercy of ever more bipartisan political stupidity.
The Mini 5 Pro actually is authorized to be flown in the U.S. and will likely will be the last DJI drone for the foreseeable future to receive such approval, given the various restrictions that I've previously discussed in detail already in the pipeline, including one triggered at the end of this year, absent drastic last minute changes.
Are there any ways for U.S. residents to get hold of the Mini 5 Pro? Since DJI is not officially releasing the product in the U.S., that leaves the gray market (domestic and international) with all the associated risks associated with potentially drastically elevated pricing, lack of manufacturer warranties, and possible problems ever getting repairs. Some U.S. residents are reportedly already planning trips to Canada or Mexico to obtain these drones and then deal with our nightmare borders import mess to bring them back into the U.S.
Frankly, our country is being humiliated by so many pathetic leaders, especially when it comes to tech. And this is but the latest example.
--Lauren--
I don't know about anyone else, but I feel like it's not optimal that we use the same word for this and this
Ika Makimaki
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#BREAKING 🚨!! A #drone just hit the #sumud #flotilla boat #gretathunberg and #novaramedia #journalist Kieran Andrieu are staying on. This happened in #Tunis, as the flotilla was moored. The fact #Israel is left to target #civilians outside its jurisdiction with impunity is wild. Demonstrate wherever you are!
Follow Novaramedia or anyone on the #flotilla for live updates. #FrancescaAlbanese (#UN special rapporteur) happened to be on site in #Tunisia, she is on the verge of tears. If you are in #London on Tuesday 9th (today), head to #DowningStreet at 6pm, where #Palestine Solidarity campaign will protest the presence of Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president wanted by the #ICJ.
#Reuters and others report coastguards say there was no #drone and the fire was "internal". Here is more footage from the boat. Unless the entire world is paid to act, looks to be coming from up to me. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/flotilla-gaza-says-boat-struck-by-drone-tunisian-waters-2025-09-08/
#BREAKING 🚨!! A #drone just hit the #sumud #flotilla boat #gretathunberg and #novaramedia #journalist Kieran Andrieu are staying on. This happened in #Tunis, as the flotilla was moored. The fact #Israel is left to target #civilians outside its jurisdiction with impunity is wild. Demonstrate wherever you are!
Alex Akselrod
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China sends Shahed drone engines to Russia labeled as “fridges” + targeting computers manufactured and tested in China.
Ukrainian technicians reverse-engineered one on a downed drone, which shows testing the equipment in a factory, on traffic in a window falling on a road passing by with chinese vehicles (memory not wiped)
China is 100% complicit in Russia’s massacre attacks on civilians in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHquUwxmOpA
#china #weapons #manufacturing #russia #drone #civilians #ukraine#nafo
China sends Shahed drone engines to Russia labeled as “fridges” + targeting computers manufactured and tested in China.
Ukrainian technicians reverse-engineered one on a downed drone, which shows testing the equipment in a factory, on traffic in a window falling on a road passing by with chinese vehicles (memory not wiped)
China is 100% complicit in Russia’s massacre attacks on civilians in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHquUwxmOpA
#china #weapons #manufacturing #russia #drone #civilians #ukraine#nafo
Aral Balkan
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🧵2/3: Ahmed is using the sound of an incessant #Israeli #drone over #Gaza to pitch his #singing. Miraculously, it remains stable for the entire song, when they usually change pitch making their presence unbearable.The song is about #Jamal carrying a load, a direct reference to a 14 y.o. boy who defied gunfire at a #GHF food distribution point to carry a bag of flour half his weight for 2 hours to feed his sisters https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/1mln8f1/jamal_the_14_yearold_boy_who_walked_152_hours/. Ahmed's last notes, mixed drone-free, are haunting