By Koen De Vos, Secretary General of the Global UTM Association (GUTMA) Drone technology is becoming global. Market access remains stubbornly national. That tension was at
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Category: Commentary
Overcoming the jet-powered Geran challenge will require more than faster C-UAS interceptors
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Russia’s escalating deployment of high-speed Geran drones is providing Ukrainian defenders and their industrial allies in the west with a strategic challenge.
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Brazil is rewriting the rules for its drone future
By Paloma Pinto Ribeiro Coelho Brazil has spent years building a regulatory framework for drones. In June 2026, it took another significant step, replacing its
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How Russia’s media and commentators are responding to Ukraine’s successful drone attacks – an AI assisted analysis
Ukraine’s drone attacks created a problem for Russia’s pro-war commentators: how to reconcile accounts of military progress abroad with visible vulnerability at home. Reporting advances
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When GNSS degradation affects more than navigation – the hidden impact on UTM and BVLOS decision-making
As uncrewed aviation becomes increasingly dependent on shared digital position, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) degradation can propagate far beyond navigation — affecting containment, conformance,
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When AI meets U-space – the regulatory collision Europe has not yet resolved
By Dr. Jose Ramirez Europe has spent the past few years building two of the world’s most ambitious regulatory frameworks: the world’s first comprehensive legal
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The human-factors gap in detect-and-avoid procedures – what happens after detection?
By Manuel Ignacio Pérez Pan A traffic alert can be entirely correct and still fail to prevent an unsafe encounter. The aircraft has been detected.
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Strategic deconfliction is not tactical separation – the safety gap in BVLOS operations
Why a properly authorised and digitally coordinated flight may still be exposed to an aircraft that never appears on the operator’s screen writes Manuel Ignacio
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What US commercial BVLOS multispectral missions reveal about drone scalability
By Patrick Maple Beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations have shifted from waiver-dependent exception to a defined regulatory pathway faster than most of
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UTM rises into space – and ANSPs will have a role
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes In March this year UAS traffic management (UTM) company Skypuzzler announced that it had been granted a European Space Agency (ESA) SPARK
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