Killing off the Phantom also isn’t implausible, since DJI doesn’t exactly need two lines of prosumer drones when it’s already got the more compact folding Mavic in its pocket.

The Phantom 3 drone includes flight-planning and photogrammetry software which makes terrain models of an area for the battalion’s future training or field operations.

The FAA’s list of 194 drone sightings reported to it this year were obtained by the New York Times and published yesterday. Contrary to what one would expect from all the media hype about the ...