Drones

This board tracks 163 drones across ten categories, from sub-250g camera quadcopters you can buy today to loitering munitions, maritime vessels, and heavy-lift cargo aircraft. Each entry lists the maker, country of origin, release date, and status (concept, prototype, production, or deployed), plus the specs that decide whether a platform fits your mission: takeoff weight, flight time, payload, range, top speed, and price where a public figure exists. You can sort and filter to compare a Chinese camera drone against a US enterprise model, or line up strike UAVs by range, without hunting across a dozen spec sheets. Two fields carry extra weight for anyone buying for work rather than a hobby. The first is compliance status: NDAA-compliant means the drone avoids components from covered foreign entities, and Blue UAS means it has cleared the US Defense Innovation Unit vetting for government use, which governs whether public agencies and many contractors can legally fly it. The second is the flight-time and payload pairing, because those two numbers trade against each other on every airframe and set the real ceiling on what a mission can achieve. A drone that lifts more usually flies for less time, so reading both together tells you far more than any single headline number.