The commercial drone industry didnโt just solve problems. It crushed them. Flight times stretched from stuttering 10-minute hops to hour-plus endurance beasts. Range exploded from line-of-sight babysitting to BVLOS empires spanning kilometers. Sensors went from potato-vision webcams to razor-sharp 8K hyperspectral eyes that see through smoke, read crop stress, and count rivets on a bridge at 300 feet. Autonomy? From shaky waypoint scripts to AI that dodges birds, negotiates t
