Exhibit 99.1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ADVISORIES

In this Annual Information Form (“AIF”), unless otherwise specified or if the context otherwise requires, references to “we”, “us”, “our”, “its”, “the Company” or “Draganfly” mean Draganfly Inc. The information in this AIF is stated as at December 31, 2022 unless otherwise indicated. For additional information and details, readers are referred to the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022 and notes that follow, as well as the accompanying annual Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”), which are available on the Canadian Securities Administrator’s SEDAR System at www.sedar.com and on the SEC’s EDGAR system at www.sec.gov.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information and Statements

This AIF contains forward-looking information and statements (collectively, “forward-looking statements”). These forward-looking statements relate to Draganfly’s current expectations, estimates and projections as to future events or Draganfly’s future performance and are provided to allow readers a better understanding of Draganfly’s business and prospects and may not be suitable for other purposes. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, may be considered forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as “seek”, “anticipate”, “plan”, “continue”, “estimate”, “expect”, “may”, “will”, “project”, “predict”, “potential”, “targeting”, “intend”, “could”, “might”, “should”, “believe” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in, or suggested by, such forward-looking statements. Draganfly believes the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements included in this AIF are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements should not be unduly relied upon. These statements speak only as of the date of this AIF and are expressly qualified, in their entirety, by this cautionary statement. Draganfly assumes no obligation to revise or update these statements except as required pursuant to applicable securities laws.

In particular, this AIF contains forward-looking statements pertaining to the following:

With respect to forward-looking statements contained in this AIF, the Company has made assumptions regarding, among other things:

The Company’s actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of the risk factors set forth below and elsewhere in this AIF:

The Company has included the above summary of assumptions and risks related to forward-looking statements contained in this AIF in order to provide investors with a more complete perspective on the Company’s current and future operations and such information may not be appropriate for other purposes.

Additional information on these and other factors is available in the reports filed by the Company with Canadian securities regulators and available on SEDAR (as defined herein) and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and available on EDGAR (as defined herein). The forward-looking statements and information contained in this AIF are made as of the date hereof.

Readers are cautioned that the preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in Canada requires management to make certain judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. These estimates may change, having either a negative or positive effect on net earnings as further information becomes available and as the economic environment changes. The information contained in this AIF, including the documents incorporated by reference herein, identifies additional factors that could affect the operating results and performance of the Company. Readers are encouraged to carefully consider such factors.

Readers are also cautioned against placing undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which are given as of the date expressed in this AIF, or the MD&A disclosure incorporated by reference herein, and not to use future-oriented information or financial outlooks for anything other than their intended purpose. The forward-looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements in this AIF or the MD&A or other disclosure incorporated by reference herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

Non-IFRS Measures

The Company prepares and reports its consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS (as defined herein). However, this AIF may make reference to certain non-IFRS measures including key ‎performance indicators used by management. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS ‎and do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and are therefore unlikely to be comparable ‎to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional ‎information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of the Company’s results of ‎operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures should not be considered in ‎isolation nor as a substitute for analysis of the Company’s financial information reported under IFRS. The ‎Company uses non-IFRS measures including “gross margins” and “working capital” which may be calculated ‎differently by other companies. These non-IFRS measures and metrics are used to provide investors with ‎supplemental measures of the Company’s operating performance and liquidity and thus highlight trends in the Company’s ‎business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. The Company also ‎believes that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS measures ‎in the evaluation of companies in similar industries. Management also uses non-IFRS measures and ‎metrics in order to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, to prepare ‎annual operating budgets and forecasts and to determine components of executive compensation. For ‎definitions and reconciliations of these non-IFRS measures to the relevant reported measures, please ‎‎see ‎the “Non-GAAP Measures and Additional GAAP Measures”‎ section of the MD&A. A copy of the MD&A can be accessed ‎under the Company’s ‎profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com‎ and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.

Market, Independent Third Party and Industry Data

Unless otherwise indicated, the Company has obtained the market and industry data contained in this AIF from its internal research, management’s estimates and third-party public information and other industry publications. While the Company believes such internal research, management’s estimates and third-party public information is reliable, such internal research and management’s estimates have not been verified by any independent sources and the Company has not verified any third party public information. While the Company is not aware of any misstatements regarding the market and industry data contained in this AIF, such data involves risks and uncertainties and are subject to change based on various factors, including those described under “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information and Statements” and “Risk Factors”.

Monetary References

Except as otherwise indicated, all dollar amounts in this AIF are expressed in Canadian ‎dollars and references to $ are to Canadian dollars. References to US$ are to United States dollars‎.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

In this AIF, unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the indicated meanings. Words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa and words importing any gender include all genders. A reference to an agreement means the agreement as it may be amended, supplemented or restated from time to time.

“affiliate” or “associate” when used to indicate a relationship with a person or company, has the meaning set forth in the Securities Act (British Columbia), as amended, including the regulations promulgated thereunder;

“ATM Shares” has the meaning set out under the heading “General Development of the Business of the Company – Three Year History – January 1, 2023 to Effective Date”;‎

“BCBCA” means the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia), as amended, including the regulations promulgated thereunder;

“Board of Directors” or “Board” means the board of directors of the Company, as constituted from time to time, including, where applicable, any committee thereof;

“Canadian Securities Laws” means the securities legislation and regulations, and the instruments, policies, rules, orders, codes, notices and interpretation notes, of the securities regulation authorities of any applicable jurisdiction, or jurisdictions collectively, in Canada, as well as of the applicable stock exchanges (including the CSE);

“CAGR”‎ means compound annual growth rate;

“CARs” has the meaning set out under the heading “The Ongoing Business of the Company – Regulatory Framework”;

“CIPO” means the Canadian Intellectual ‎Property Office;

“Coldchain” means Coldchain Technology Services, LLC;

“Common Shares” means the common shares without par value in the capital of the Company;

“Company” or “Draganfly” means Draganfly Inc.;

“Consolidation” has the meaning set out under the heading “General Development of the Business of the Company – Three Year History – Financial year ended December 31, 2021”;‎

“CSE” means the Canadian Securities Exchange;

“DAC” has the meaning set out under the heading “Corporate Structure – Name, Address and Incorporation”;

“DDL” means Digital Dreams Labs, Inc.;

“Draganfly Innovations” means Draganfly Innovations Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company;

“Draganfly Innovations USA” means Draganfly Innovations USA Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company;

“Dronelogics” means Dronelogics Systems Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company;

“EDGAR” means the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system of the SEC;

“Effective Date” means the effective date of this AIF, being March 27, 2023;

“FAA” means Federal Aviation Administration;

“Former Draganfly” has the meaning set out under the heading “Corporate Structure – Name, Address and Incorporation”;

“Former Draganfly Shares” has the meaning set out under the heading “General Development of the Business of the Company – Three Year History – Financial year ended December 31, 2019”;‎

‎”IFRS” ‎means International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, as adopted ‎by the Canadian Accounting Standards Board‎;

“ILS” means Integrated Launcher Solutions, Inc.;

“Global UAV Subsidiaries” has the meaning set out under the heading “General Development of the Business of the Company – Three Year History – Financial year ended December 31, 2021”;‎

“ITAR” means International Traffic in Arms Regulations;

“Nasdaq” means the Nasdaq Capital Market;

“NI 51-102” means National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations of the Canadian Securities Administrators;

“NI 52-110” means National Instrument 52-110 – Audit Committees of the Canadian Securities Administrators;

“NPA” has the meaning set out under the heading “The Ongoing Business of the Company – Regulatory Framework”;

“OTCQB” means the middle tier of the United States Over-the-Counter market;

“Preferred Shares” has the meaning set out under the heading “Corporate Structure – Name, Address and Incorporation”;

“Regulation A+ Offering” has the meaning set out under the heading “General Development of the Business of the Company – Three Year History – Financial year ended December 31, 2020”;‎

“RPAS” means remotely piloted aircraft systems;

“SEDAR” means the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval;

“SFOC” has the meaning set out under the heading “The Ongoing Business of the Company – Regulatory Framework”;

“Small RPAS Advanced” has the meaning set out under the heading “The Ongoing Business of the Company – Regulatory Framework”;

“Small RPAS Basic” has the meaning set out under the heading “The Ongoing Business of the Company – Regulatory Framework”;

“sUAS” means small unmanned aircraft systems;

‎”UAV” means unmanned aerial vehicles;

“US Offering” has the meaning set out under the heading “General Development of the Business of the Company – Three Year History – Financial year ended December 31, 2021”;‎

“U.S. Prospectus Supplement” has the meaning set out under the heading “General Development of the Business of the Company – Three Year History – January 1, 2023 to Effective Date”;‎

“USPTO” means United States Patent and ‎Trademark Office;

“UVS” means unmanned vehicle systems;

“Valqari” means Valgari LLC;

“Vital” means Vital Intelligence Inc; and

“Vital APA” has the meaning set out under the heading “General Development of the Business of the Company – Three Year History – Financial year ended December 31, 2021.

CORPORATE STRUCTURE

Name, Address and Incorporation

‎The Company was incorporated as Drone Acquisition Corp. (“DAC”) under the BCBCA on June 1, 2018 for the purpose of reorganizing and recapitalizing the business of Draganfly Innovations Inc. (“Former Draganfly”)‎. Effective July 17, 2019, the Company amended its articles to ‎remove various classes of authorized but unissued preferred shares and replace them with only one class of preferred ‎shares (the “Preferred Shares”). Effective August 15, 2019, the Company changed its name to “Draganfly Inc.” On August 22, 2019, the Company amended its articles to re-designate its Class A Common Shares as Common ‎Shares‎.

The Company’s head office is located at 2108 St. George Avenue, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7M 0K7, and the registered office is located at Suite 2800, Park Place, 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2Z7.

Intercorporate Relationships

The following chart shows the Company’s subsidiaries as at the Effective Date:‎

GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY

Founded in 1998, Former Draganfly is recognized as one of the first commercial multi-rotor manufacturers and has a legacy for its innovation and superior customer service. Zenon Dragan is the founder of Former Draganfly, and is a recognized leading expert on UAV.

Former Draganfly introduced its first systems in 1999 and since evolved and shaped the UAV industry. The company’s aircraft are widely used by public safety agencies worldwide and were one of the first UAV to receive a FAA Certificate of ‎‎Authorization the fall of 2009 with the Mesa County Colorado Sheriff’s Office. In 2012, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police flew one of the company’s drones to locate and save the life of an accident victim. Draganfly aircraft have achieved many industry firsts, including:

Three Year History

A detailed description on the significant developments of the business of the Company over the last three completed financial years is set out below.

Financial year ended December 31, 2020

On January 9, 2020, the Company completed the listing of its Common Shares for trading ‎on the OTCQB tier of the OTC Markets under the symbol “DFLYF”.

On March 26, 2020, the Company announced that it had been selected as the exclusive global systems integrator for a project with Vital Intelligence Inc., a healthcare data services and deep learning company in conjunction with the University of South Australia, using technology developed with help from the Australian Department of Defence Science and Technology Group.

On April 30, 2020, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the shares of Dronelogics Systems Inc. for a purchase price of $2,000,0000 paid by way of a cash payment of $500,000 and 3,225,438 Common Shares at a deemed price of $0.50 per Common Share. In connection with the acquisition, Justin Hannewyk, President of Dronelogics, was appointed to the Board.

‎On June 18, 2020, the Company announced that John M. Mitnick was appointed to the Board.

On July 3, 2020, the Company announced that Scott Larson, a director of the Company, was appointed President of the Company.

On July 6, 2020, Draganfly completed a non-brokered private placement of 961,538 Common Shares at a price of $0.52 per Common Share for gross proceeds of $500,000.

On July 16, 2020, Draganfly completed a shares for debt transaction for payment of a third party strategic vendor’s invoices. Draganfly issued an aggregate of 555,409 Common Shares at a deemed price of $0.55 per Common Share to settle $305,475.03 of outstanding debt.

On November 10, 2020, the Company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Dronelogics, entered into lease agreements with the wholly-owned subsidiaries of Global UAV Technologies, Pioneer Arial Surveys Ltd. and High Eye Aerial Imaging Inc. (the “Global UAV Subsidiaries”), pursuant to which Dronelogics will lease all of the assets of the Global UAV Subsidiaries with an exclusive option to purchase the assets at any time during the term of the lease agreements. Pursuant to the lease agreements, Dronelogics paid an initial deposit of $50,000 upon signing and will pay four quarterly lease payments to each of the Global UAV Subsidiaries for an aggregate amount of $31,500 per quarter (for a total amount of $126,000 during the term of the lease agreements). In the event the Company exercises the option, it is required to pay the remainder of the lease payments outstanding as well as $220,000 in Common Shares based on a 30 day volume weighted average price per Common Share following the execution of the lease agreements, for aggregate consideration of $396,000. On ‎January 28‎, 2021, the Company notified the Global UAV Subsidiaries that it would be terminating the lease ‎agreements and no longer pursuing this transaction.‎

On December 2, 2020, the Company announced that it had completed an initial closing of its Regulation A+ offering of units of the Company (the “Regulation A+ Offering”). The Company issued 2,556,496 units at price of US$0.47 per unit for gross proceeds in the amount of US$1,201,553 in the first closing. Each unit is comprised of one Common Share and one Common Share purchase warrant, with each warrant entitling the holder to acquire one Common Share at a price of US$0.71 per Common Share until November 30, 2022. The Common Shares and Warrants issued in connection with the offering are subject to a nine month hold period which will expire on August 30, 2021.

On December 22, 2020, the Company announced that it had been selected by Coldchain Technology Services, LLC (“Coldchain”) to immediately develop and provide flight services of a robust vaccine delivery payload for use in critical regions for drone delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Financial year ended December 31, 2021

On January 6, 2021, the Company announced the awarding of a new patent for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) cargo delivery drone with variable center of gravity.

On January 21, 2021, the Company announced that it had been selected to provide engineering and development services for a drone-based air support defense system for Integrated Launcher Solutions Inc. (“ILS”). The Company entered into a memorandum of understanding with ILS with the objective to create the terms and conditions surrounding a project management and development agreement for the production of ILS’s multi-launching air support defence system.

On March 2, 2021, the Company announced that it will be the exclusive supplier of drones to Woz ED’s drone program across its ‎national K-12 curriculum with the expected deployment of approximately 3000 drones in ‎‎2021‎. The Company entered into a memorandum of understanding with Woz ED with the objective to create the terms and conditions surrounding a business agreement. The memorandum of understanding automatically terminates after 60 days; however, the Company anticipates entering into a definitive agreement with Woz ED during the third quarter of 2021.

On March 9, 2021, the Company announced that it had completed the final closing of the Regulation A+ Offering. The Company issued 32,443,457 units at price of US$0.47 per unit for gross proceeds in the amount of approximately US$15.3 million in the final closing. Each unit is comprised of one Common Share and one Common Share purchase warrant, with each warrant entitling the holder to acquire one Common Share at a price of US$0.71 per Common Share for a period of two years from the date of issuance. The Common Shares and Warrants issued in connection with the offering are subject to a nine month hold period.

On March 9, 2021, the Company also announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Vital Intelligence Inc. (“Vital”) to purchase all the assets of Vital in consideration for: (a) a cash payment of $500,000 with $50,000 paid upon execution of the asset purchase agreement, $200,000 to be paid at closing and $250,000 to be paid on the six-month anniversary date of closing; and (b) 1,200,000 units (on a post-Consolidated basis) of the Company with each unit being comprised of one common share of the Company and one common share purchase warrant (the “Vital APA”). Each warrant will entitle the holder to acquire one common share for a period of 24 months following closing at an exercise price of $2.67 per common share and the Company will be able to accelerate the expiry date of the warrants after one year in the event the underlying common shares have a value of at least 30% greater than the exercise price of the warrants. The units will be held in escrow following closing with 300,000 units (on a post-Consolidated basis) being released at closing and the remainder to be released upon the Company reaching certain revenue milestones received from the purchased assets. The Company completed the acquisition on March 25, 2021. As of the Effective Date, the revenue milestone targets attributable to the purchased assets under the Vital APA were not met, and accordingly, the Company will cancel the 900,000 units (calculated on a post-Consolidated basis).

On March 23, 2021, the Company announced that it signed a services deal to deploy EagleEye™ AI flight services with Windfall Geotek Inc. Windfall Geotek Inc. contractually agreed to have Draganfly provide $1,000,000 in flight services over the course of the next year with $500,000 already directly funded and allocated.

On May 13, 2021, the Company announced that it entered into a definitive agreement with Coldchain to develop, deploy and operate solutions for the delivery of medical supplies, medicine, and vaccines. The definitive agreement provides for phase one of a planned five-phase roll-out for the comprehensive development, deployment, and operation of a medical drone delivery service prototype as well as the development of a solution for the timely delivery of medical supplies, medicine, and vaccines. Phase one will also include working with various regulatory bodies, including the FAA, to obtain licenses and approvals for initial non-commercial beta test delivery routes. The Company has agreed Phase one has a value of US$125,000, which will be paid by ColdChain over a maximum of 10 months and the parties have agreed to negotiate an extension to the definitive agreement for phase two prior to the expiry of phase one. Under phase two, Coldchain will commit to purchasing no less than US$625,000 in equipment and services from Draganfly.

On May 19, 2021, the Company announced that it signed a contract with ILS for the development, prototyping, and eventual production of a non-lethal 40 mm ‎multi-‎launching systems that can be mounted and deployed from drones, drone systems, robots, ‎robotic systems, and other stationary platforms or similar systems. As part of the contract, Draganfly has provided ILS with strategic vendor financing of US$150,000 to assist in the development of the project and in consideration ILS has granted Draganfly a worldwide royalty equal to 8% of the gross revenue received from the project for a period of five years from earlier of the repayment date or maturity date of the loan. The loan is secured against the intellectual property related to the project.

On July 22, 2021, the Company announced the expected listing of its Common Shares on the Nasdaq, subject to meeting the final listing requirements of the Nasdaq.

On July 27, 2021, the Company announced that in connection with the proposed listing of the Common Shares on the Nasdaq, the Company will consolidate its Common Shares effective July 29, 2021 (the “Consolidation”) on a basis of one new Common Share for every five then issued and outstanding Common Shares under a new CSE stock symbol “DPRO”.

On July 29, 2021, the Company announced that its application to list its Common Shares on the Nasdaq was approved by The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC and the Common Shares began trading on July 30, 2021 under the ticker “DPRO”.

On August 3, 2021, the Company announced that it completed an underwritten public offering in the United States (the “US Offering”) of 5,000,000 post-Consolidation Common Shares at a price of US$4.00 per Common Share, for total gross proceeds of approximately US$20,000,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and expenses of the US Offering. ThinkEquity, a division of Fordham Financial Management, Inc., acted as sole book-running manager for the US Offering.

On August 12, 2021, the Company announced that it launched its new, North American designed and built, Draganflyer Commander2 drone system. The Draganflyer Commander2 is a small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) and replaced the Company’s Commander platform launched in 2015.

On September 9, 2021, the Company announced that Julie Myers Wood was appointed to the Board and that Justin Hannewyk resigned from the Board.

On September 15, 2021, the Company announced that the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters in connection with the US Offering was exercised in respect of 95,966 post-Consolidation Common Shares. The exercise of the over-allotment at US$4.00 per Common Share produced additional gross proceeds of US$383,864, bringing the aggregate gross proceeds to Draganfly under the US Offering to US$20,383,864, before deducting underwriting discounts and expenses of the US Offering.

On September 22, 2021, the Company announced that it entered into an exclusive manufacturing agreement with Valqari LLC (“Valqari”) to produce Valqari’s Drone Delivery Stations. As per the manufacturing agreement, Draganfly will be the exclusive manufacturer of Valqari’s Drone Delivery Stations. Valqari will be ordering at least $400,000 of manufacturing services during the initial phase of the agreement. As of the Effective Date, Valqari has not placed any orders under this manufacturing agreement.

On October 12, 2021, the Company announced that it signed a minimum $9 million manufacturing agreement with Digital Dream Labs, Inc. (“DDL”) to design and develop an AI consumer companion robot drone. As per the terms of the agreement, Draganfly will be the exclusive manufacturer and assembler of the drone. DDL will order at least 50,000 units annually with delivery starting in 2022 and it is entitled to royalty equal to eight percent of the aggregate invoiced amounts of products sold, shipped and/or provided to DDL or the Company to customers/retailers in either distribution channel, from time to time, less returns or credits actually taken for granted, customary trade discounts and markdown, and allowances with respect to the products. The drone will be integrated into DDL’s existing product family, including support, sales and distribution channels used for its other consumer robots. Draganfly has also been granted a right of first refusal to become the exclusive manufacturer and assembler of subsequent drone or UAV-based robots to be added to DDL’s product portfolio. The parties have entered into a binding letter agreement reflecting the above terms and will use commercially reasonable efforts to enter into a definitive agreement. The binding letter agreement will govern the relationship between DDL and Draganfly and there can be no assurance that a definitive agreement will be completed or entered into amongst the parties. As of the Effective Date, the Company and DDL have not entered into the definitive agreement and the initial order has not been fulfilled.

Financial year ended December 31, 2022

On March 22, 2022, the Company announced that it had received an order for the Company’s Medical Response and Search and Rescue Drones from Coldchain for immediate deployment with Revived Soldiers Ukraine. Draganfly provided an immediate combined total of 10 North American-made Medical Response and Search and Rescue Drones. In addition, Draganfly donated three drone systems to Revived Soldiers Ukraine. The total initial order size (subject to conditions) is up to 200 units.

On May 9, 2022, the Company announced that John M. Mitnick was appointed as Chairman of the Board, effective April 27, 2022.

On May 9, 2022, the Company announced that Cameron Chell, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, was appointed as President of the Company, effective April 27, 2022.

On May 9, 2022, the Company announced that Scott Larson would be stepping down as Interim President and appointed as Lead Director effective April 27, 2022.

On May 9, 2022, the Company announced that Paul Mullen, Vice President of Draganfly’s Vital Intelligence Group, was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective March 1, 2022 .

One June 1, 2022, the Company announced the launch of its new North American-made Heavy Lift and Commander 3 XL Drones. The Heavy Lift is capable of automated missions and manual flight operations with a payload capacity of 67 pounds. The Commander 3 XL is a high-endurance, weather-resistant, multirotor UAV that is designed for easy assemble and rapid deployment.

One June 7, 2022, the Company announced the launch of its new North American-made Long-range Light Detection and Ranging (“LiDAR”) system. The LiDAR system provides accurate distance measurements and improved resolution over conventional photogrammetry methods.

One June 21, 2022, the Company announced that Alabama State University (ASU) was offering the Draganfly Drone Technology Course through ASU’s Division of Continuing Education. The program provides an introduction to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and explores advanced topics including regulations, airspace operations, and navigation.

On August 1, 2022, the Company announced that Deborah R. Greenberg, was appointed as Chief Legal Officer of the Company, effective July 4, 2022. Her role was subsequently expanded to include the Human Resources and Information Technology functions as the Chief Legal and Corporate Services Officer, effective December 1, 2022.

On November 17, 2022, the Company announced DEF-C, a Ukrainian company involved in the civil and ‎defense sectors, had selected the Company as an exclusive provider of drones and related services.‎

On November 18, 2022, the Company announced the fulfillment of an additional order of 30 reconnaissance drones through its channel partner DEF-C, along with continued support from DroneAid. Draganfly’s drone technology is being deployed to provide valuable intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information.On December 7, 2022, the Company announced the launch of the Draganfly UAS A.I.R. Space flight facility dedicated to the advancement of UAS program Adoption, Innovation & Research. The facility will provide a control site for the design, validation and optimization of standard operating procedures, sensor selection and data collection techniques.

January 1, 2023 to the Effective Date

On January 17, 2023, the Company announced Lufthansa Industry Solutions, an IT service provider and a ‎subsidiary of Lufthansa Group, has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Draganfly to explore ‎providing its drone solutions and vital intelligence technology for use into its existing infrastructure and ‎customer solutions.‎

On January 31, 2023, the Company announced Remote Sensing Instruments, a longstanding Geospatial Technology company in India working in the field of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, has entered into a strategic agreement with the Company for the development of manufacturing, distribution, and sales of Draganfly products in India.

On January 31, 2023, the Company entered into an equity distribution agreement with Maxim ‎Group LLC ‎dated January 31, 2023, pursuant to which the Company could, from time ‎to time, distribute in an ‎‎‎”at-the-market offering” of up to US$15 million in common ‎shares of the ‎Company (the ‎‎”ATM Shares”) in the United States only, on the Nasdaq.‎ The Offering is being made pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated January 31, 2023, ‎to the short form base shelf prospectus‎ dated July 14, 2021 ‎qualifying the distribution of the Offered Shares in each of the ‎provinces of ‎British Columbia, ‎Saskatchewan and Ontario, and a prospectus supplement to the ‎registration statement on Form F-10, as amended, that became ‎effective ‎on July 29, 2021 (File No. 3‎333-258074‎) ‎containing the Canadian base shelf prospectus ‎under the Multi-‎jurisdictional Disclosure System, registering the offer and sale of the ATM Shares under the United ‎States Securities Act of ‎‎1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). To date,‎ the Company has distributed 650,729 ATM Shares under the Offering at an average price of ‎‎$2.62 per share for net proceeds of $1,705,013.‎

Significant Acquisitions During 2022

Draganfly did not complete any significant acquisitions during its most recently completed financial year for which disclosure is required under Part 8 of NI 51-102.

ThE ONGOING BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY

‎General

The Company is an award-winning, industry-leading manufacturer, contract engineering, and product development ‎company within the UAV space, serving the public safety, agriculture, industrial inspections, and mapping and surveying ‎markets. The Company is driven by passion, ingenuity, and the need to provide efficient solutions and first-class ‎services to its customers around the world with the goal of saving time, money, and lives. ‎

The business of the Company is conducted through three wholly-owned subsidiaries: (a) Draganfly Innovations Inc.; (b) ‎Draganfly Innovations USA Inc.; and (c) Dronelogics Systems Inc.

The business of Draganfly Innovations and Draganfly Innovations USA is the provision of engineering services and ‎manufacture of commercial UAV, RPAS, and ‎UVS and software, serving the public safety, agriculture, industrial inspections, and ‎mapping and surveying markets. ‎

‎Dronelogics is a solutions integrator for custom robotics, hardware and software that provides a wide scope of ‎services including sales, training, rentals, maintenance, flying and data processing services. ‎

Drone Industry Overview

Drones or UAV have rapidly evolved from a military origin to commercial and civil government ‎applications from security to farming. The increased automation of drones provides additional value to ‎existing workflows, triggering more widespread adoption. A global shift to sustainable and eco-friendly ‎options has further increased demand for drone usage.

Drone applications are being utilized in multiple industries on a global basis. A portion of manned ‎military aircraft (“MMA”) created the drone industry as a safe, inexpensive option. Defense will remain the ‎largest market over the foreseeable future. However, the mobile phone industry created an affordable ‎technology stack for drones. The ability to carry a camera enabled many people to utilize the platforms ‎for media production and beyond. That demand initiated in the consumer market and has migrated along ‎with technological advancements into the growth of commercial drone industry.‎

The major segments of the drone market are drone hardware, software and services. Drone hardware are ‎the physical goods, including drone platforms, aerial mobility platforms and components and systems. ‎The software segment includes flight planning, navigation and computer vision, unmanned traffic ‎management (“UTM”), fleet operations, ecosystems, networks and software development kits (“SDKs”). Drone ‎services include the provision of flight operations, data analysis and hardware repair and maintenance. Drone service providers ‎‎(“DSPs”) include system integrators, pilot training providers, retailers and marketplaces, coalitions and ‎organizations, drone test sites, insurance providers and university/educational facilities. The commercial drone industry has been growing rapidly in recent years, with drones becoming increasingly popular for a wide range of applications. From capturing aerial footage to conducting inspections of infrastructure, drones offer a cost-effective and efficient solution to a range of tasks. According to Teal Group, the global market for commercial drones is expected to reach $63.9 billion by 2030, with strong demand coming from industries such as agriculture, construction, and logistics.

One of the biggest drivers of growth in the commercial drone industry is the availability of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), machine learning, and computer vision. These technologies enable drones to perform a wide range of tasks that were previously difficult or impossible, such as automated inspections and precision agriculture. Additionally, the development of high-quality, lightweight sensors and cameras has made it possible to capture high-resolution images and video footage, in challenging environments.

Drone application methods are being used by a variety of industries today. There are approximately ‎eight methods that are garnering the most attention: mapping, surveying, inspection, ‎filming/photography, dispensing/spraying, warehousing, monitoring/detection, and delivery. These ‎applications are being used today by the civil government, educational facilities, agricultural, ‎construction, health care, real estate, energy, transportation, insurance, security, and scientific industries.

Products and Services

The Company can provide its customers with an entire suite of products and services that include: quadcopters, ‎‎fixed wing ‎aircrafts, ground based robots, handheld controllers, flight training, and software used for tracking, live ‎‎streaming, ‎and data collection. In addition, Draganfly has launched a health/telehealth platform. The initial focus ‎of the platform is a COVID-19 screening set of technologies that remotely detects a number of key COVID-19 ‎respiratory symptoms. The Company is also offering sanitary spraying services to indoor and outdoor public ‎gathering spaces such as sport stadiums and fields to provide additional protection against the spread of contagious ‎viruses such as COVID-19. ‎

Product sales and provision of services accounted for 73% and 27%, respectively, of revenues of Draganfly for the financial year ended December 31, 2022.

Draganfly Products

‎‎Manufactured Solutions

The Company is among the longest-running manufacturer of multirotor drones in the world. Draganfly’s drones include the following:

Universal Control System

The Draganfly Universal Control System is a complete, handheld ground control system that is built to ‎integrate ‎with other software and hardware systems. The Draganfly Universal Control System is designed ‎to provide precise ‎control over sUAS helicopters, fixed-wing, and ground-based robots. Draganfly ‎software provides sophisticated ‎flight planning, automated takeoff, grid following, waypoints, landing, ‎data collection, and video downlink.‎

Software

The Draganfly Surveyor drone flight planning software is an intuitive, easy to use, application that ‎enables ‎customers to quickly plan, fly, and process meaningful data. Based on the project, camera type, ‎optics, and ‎altitude, the drone software determines the appropriate camera shutter interval, aircraft ‎speed, and flight plan to ‎capture the optimum required photo overlap to generate 2D and 3D maps and ‎models. The Draganfly Surveyor ‎directly integrates with Pix4Dmapper for survey-grade results and can ‎be used alongside other third-party ‎photogrammetry programs.‎

Vital Intelligence

The Draganfly Vital Intelligence platform is a touchless health ‎assessment system that leverages proprietary machine-vision methods to measure biometrics such as heart rate, oxygen saturation and blood pressure. Vital ‎Intelligence is a data platform that turns an existing camera into a touchless ‎ detection system. Draganfly integrates this technology into a ‎variety of ‎platforms and camera systems – both on the ground and in the air – to support use cases such as visitor intake and other general health and wellness applications.

‎ Draganfly Services

Custom Engineering

Draganfly is a contract engineering partner for government agencies, enterprise organizations, academic ‎institutions, ‎and businesses of all sizes. The Draganfly team’s truest capabilities are actualized during the ‎engineering process as ‎hardware designers, software designers, engineers, project managers, and ‎vertical-specific experts come together to ‎build custom drone solutions for its partners. Draganfly’s end-‎to-end engineering services include‎:

Training

Draganfly offers custom-designed training packages that are tailored to specific operations and use ‎cases. The ‎Company also offers basic training for new UAV owners, up to advanced classes for users ‎who understand the ‎fundamentals and are looking for new ways to increase flight efficiency or comply ‎with federal regulations‎.

Flight Services

Draganfly has a team of qualified pilots that conduct flights on behalf of its customers. The team ‎specializes in ‎working with emergency services including police, fire, and search and rescue personnel. ‎Draganfly also supports ‎industrial applications, utility and power companies, environmental and ‎agricultural entities and others‎.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Data Services

Draganfly has a team of qualified GIS Data Specialists and Surveyors that support the delivery of services to clients in various markets. These services include the creation and maintenance of data sets of spatial analysis.

Spraying Services

Draganfly operates, in partnership with a leader in natural and organic disinfectants, to ‎administer a sanitization ‎spraying service in large public venues by misting a surface spray across the ‎entire venue in four to six hours.‎

Principal Markets

Draganfly has more than 20 years of experience designing and manufacturing professional drones for ‎military, ‎public safety, energy, agriculture, and insurance. Draganfly has sold products and services to a number of countries ‎but predominantly focuses on the North American market given its geographical ‎location.‎

Military and Government

Military and government contractors have partnered with Draganfly to improve personnel and infrastructure ‎‎safety. Draganfly works with partners to design and manufacture custom airframes, design and develop ‎payloads, ‎and manage complex flight operations. Draganfly team members hold advanced pilot ‎certificates and are ‎approved to fly in controlled airspace and at airports. Since the Company’s ‎development team is cleared by ‎Canada’s Controlled Goods Program, the team is permitted to handle ‎ITAR equipment and technologies, and the ‎Company’s facilities are built to protect those technologies ‎and ensure they are only handled by approved ‎personnel.‎

Public Safety

In 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police flew one of the Company’s drones to locate and save the life of an ‎accident victim, which we believe was one of the first times a public safety organization used a UAV to save a life. ‎Years later, the Company is still a ‎leader in using drone technology to keep the public safe. Draganfly works with its ‎partners to identify ‎unknowns, such as substances, spills, packages, and chemicals while not putting human lives at ‎risk‎. ‎Draganfly builds aerial and ground systems with custom payloads and sensors to scan scenes, survey ‎public ‎events, locate objects, and clear debris faster and more safely than on-the-ground manpower. The ‎Company also ‎empowers its partners to maximize existing infrastructures via custom API integrations ‎that ensure Draganfly’s ‎technology enhances their safety systems‎

Environmental and Energy

Draganfly offers a suite of commercial UAV solutions for energy companies and those servicing the ‎energy market, ‎like surveyors and consultants. Draganfly equips energy companies with the hardware ‎and software they need to ‎optimize existing operations, improve safety, and respond after a natural ‎disaster. Partners can use Draganfly ‎hardware and 3D modeling software to remotely inspect sites that ‎would put human lives at risk. They also conduct ‎environmental monitoring with Draganfly’s sample ‎collection solutions, assessing water and ground pollution, gas ‎composition, infrastructure, and other ‎environments.‎

Agriculture

Draganfly works with its partners to collect high-quality data, using multi- and hyper-spectral imaging, 3D ‎modeling, ‎and a suite of sophisticated sensor technology that assesses environmental factors. Seed ‎companies use Draganfly ‎technology to optimize growth season, measuring seed trial results throughout ‎the research and development ‎process. Farmers can use Draganfly flight and data collection services to ‎monitor hectares of land year-round, ‎assessing factors like fertilizer efficiency, weed production, and ‎more.

Operations

Canadian Operations

Draganfly Innovation Inc.’s products are manufactured at its machine shop within its leased head office ‎based in ‎Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Draganfly Innovations Inc. operates the fully operational ‎facility located at ‎‎2108 St. George Avenue, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0K7. This facility is to be used only for ‎the purposes of Draganfly ‎Innovations Inc. operating its business of design, development, production, ‎distribution, sale and/or licensing of ‎drones or robots, or such other use as permitted by the landlord ‎from time to time. ‎

Dronelogics Systems Inc.’s products and services are provided through its leased space located at Unit 319, 2999 ‎‎Underhill Avenue, ‎Burnaby, British Columbia‎. ‎

‎United States Operations

‎The Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Draganfly Innovations USA Inc., has a leased space in ‎Palm Beach ‎‎Gardens, Florida that currently stores some inventory for operations in the ‎United States. ‎

Competitive Conditions

Although Draganfly is acknowledged as a drone industry pioneer that we believe was the first to develop the ‎commercial multi rotor ‎helicopter, there ‎are now many drone hardware companies in the world. As technology ‎has ‎improved ‎and costs for hardware and software have come down, the line between consumer and commercial ‎‎‎drones has blurred, enabling the rise of Prosumer drones. A prosumer drone is a drone is designed to satisfy elements of professional and consumer segments, often featuring integrated sensors designed to deliver a combination of performance and value with little ability to customize the drone for the required use-case Historically, Draganfly has serviced early adopters in the public safety industry. At ‎this stage of ‎‎the commercial drone adoption curve, the average public safety organization (local, ‎regional, and even federal law ‎‎enforcement, for example), has been introduced to drones through the adoption of Consumer and Prosumer platforms. Hence, these ‎organizations tend to use lower cost drones ‎‎that have become quite sophisticated that can accomplish ‎most of their use cases. The dominant companies in the ‎industry area Chinese drone manufacturers that ‎are reputed to own over 70% of the consumer and now commercial ‎drone ‎market. The majority of foreign manufactured ‎drones are geared towards broad applications involving the masses. Draganfly ‎has ‎moved away from ‎competing directly with these companies and in some cases sells these products through its subsidiary, ‎Dronelogics Systems Inc., or ‎has chosen to serve niche markets outside of where the foreign manufactured drones tends to ‎be. ‎There are also ‎some organizations that tend to be US based that either prefer or are mandated to not use ‎foreign ‎drones such as ‎those produced by China. Some of these organizations are sensitive to their work ‎being exposed to that ‎of overseas ‎governments which has at least for the time being, created a niche ‎market for players such as ‎Draganfly. The ‎combined shift away from foreign made drones (national security issues) and regulatory improvements by the FAA ‎in respect of drone usage is driving industry demand. As Draganfly has evolved to move with the industry trends, ‎the ‎Company now uses some third party hardware and software as part ‎of some of its customization and engineering services work. ‎Draganfly ‎has also moved into innovative engineering ‎procurement which is very specialized. As the drone industry matures, ‎this may bring more competitors to this space or ‎the ‎Company’s customers may choose to develop the in-house ‎expertise to do the work that they currently ‎‎outsource to Draganfly. However, it is the Company’s view that there ‎will be a growing customer base ‎that will ‎require specialized drone hardware, software and service solutions outside of the capabilities of the consumer & prosumer drone platforms that only a handful of companies can do.‎

The market remains highly competitive. Private equity continues to significantly capitalize drone start-ups at ‎industry high valuations. The publicly-traded companies in the drone segment trade at different valuations, with a ‎steep discount to private-equity backed ventures. Some of the other publicly traded companies we may compete ‎with include Alpine 4 Tech, Inc., Aerovironment Inc., EHang Holdings Limited, AgEagle, Drone Delivery Canada, ‎Inc., and Red Cat Holdings, Inc.‎

Regulatory Framework

A new regulatory framework relating to the use of drones in Canada was published by Transport ‎Canada ‎in ‎January 2019 and came into effect on June 1, 2019. The changes, published in the ‎Canadian Aviation ‎Regulations ‎‎(“CARs”), Part IX, introduce new rules based on the weight of the RPA and the intended ‎operation. This framework ‎creates three broad ‎categories of RPAS: (i) small RPAS in limited (low risk) ‎operations (“Small RPAS Basic”); (ii) ‎‎small RPAS in advanced (complex) operations (“Small RPAS ‎Advanced”); and (iii) all other RPA ‎operations that ‎fall outside (i) and (ii) above. These regulations focus ‎on foundational issues ‎such as aircraft marking and ‎registration, pilot knowledge and certification, ‎airworthiness of the ‎aircraft, and flight rules.‎

‎ Small RPAS Basic are defined as RPAS weighing between 250 grams and 25 kilograms and operated in ‎rural ‎and ‎unpopulated areas. These RPAS will require identification markings, including name, address ‎‎and contact ‎information of the owner and pilot of the RPA. Pilots must be at least 14 years of ‎age and ‎must hold a valid Basic ‎RPA licence that is specific to small drones. Additional ‎restrictions are imposed ‎that include that the RPA cannot ‎operate: (i) within approximately 30 meters of ‎people or open-air ‎assemblies of people, (ii) above 400 feet, (iii) ‎within approximately 1.85 kilometers of ‎heliports or (iv) ‎within approximately 5.5 kilometers of airports. These ‎regulations require the RPA to ‎always be operated ‎within visual line-of-sight.‎

Small RPAS Advanced are defined as RPAS weighing between 250 grams and 25 kilograms and ‎operated in ‎urban ‎and/or populated areas. These RPAS will require identification, marking and ‎registration ‎with Transport Canada as ‎well as meeting specified design standards acceptable to ‎Transport ‎Canada. The RPA will be assigned a unique ‎identification/registration number issued by ‎Transport ‎Canada. Pilots must be at least 16 years of age and must ‎hold a valid Advanced RPAS licence ‎‎that is specific to small drones. Approval for operation must be granted by Air ‎Traffic Control ‎when ‎operating in controlled airspace or near controlled aerodromes. A set of flight rules must be ‎‎followed at ‎all times for these more complex operations. Restrictions, including distances from ‎people, are ‎‎determined based on the safety certification of the RPA being operated. The RPA ‎must always be ‎operated within ‎visual line-of-sight.‎

The current legislation utilizes a similar Special Flight Operations Certificate (“SFOC”) application ‎‎process, as the ‎previous regulations, to approve any operations that do not fit within the ‎regulatory ‎regime set out above, such as ‎operating beyond visual-line-of-sight. For those wishing ‎to operate ‎outside of the regulatory framework set out in ‎CARs, part IX, there will be a variety of ‎SFOC application ‎processes tailored to the nature and use of the RPA. The ‎more complex and ‎riskier the proposed ‎operation, the more thorough and detailed the SFOC application process.‎

‎ Those operators requiring an SFOC must apply to the Transport Canada Civil Aviation Regional ‎Office at ‎least 30 ‎working days prior to the date of the proposed RPAS operation. Transport ‎Canada has wide ‎discretion in reviewing ‎and approving SFOC applications; however, to date the ‎Company has never been ‎refused an SFOC for which it has ‎applied. The purpose of the SFOC ‎application review is to ensure that ‎the proposed operation is safe and associated ‎risks have ‎been adequately mitigated by the Company.‎

‎ ‎In April 2020, Transport Canada published a Notice of Proposed Amendment (defined herein as “NPA”) as the first ‎‎step in ‎the publication of new regulations for beyond visual line-of-sight operations. The NPA ‎provided a ‎synopsis ‎of the high-level policies Transport Canada is proposing to support beyond ‎visual line-of-sight ‎operations in lower ‎risk environments such as remote and isolated areas. ‎These new regulations will also ‎provide clear direction and ‎guidance on the use of heavier aircraft ‎‎(up to 650 kilograms), operations at ‎higher altitudes than currently permitted ‎in CARs, Part IX, and will ‎set the foundation for an operator ‎certification program. Once published, these ‎regulations will ‎permit routine beyond visual-line-of-sight ‎operations without the need for the Company to request ‎‎specific permission for each operation, as is ‎currently required with the current SFOC process. ‎ The first draft of ‎these regulations were expected to be published in Canada Gazette in Spring of 2021; however, as at the date of ‎this AIF, the first draft has not been published.

The Company is currently fully compliant with all current regulatory requirements and has applied ‎for, and ‎received ‎Transport Canada approval for several SFOCs.‎

Components

The Company obtains hardware components, various subsystems and systems, and raw materials from ‎a limited ‎group of suppliers. The Company does not have long-term agreements with any of these ‎suppliers that obligate ‎such suppliers to continue to sell components, subsystems, systems or products ‎to the Company. The Company’s ‎reliance on these suppliers involves significant risks and uncertainties, ‎including whether suppliers will provide an ‎adequate supply of required raw materials, components, ‎subsystems, or systems of sufficient quality, will increase ‎prices for the raw materials, components, ‎subsystems or systems, and will perform their obligations on a timely ‎basis. See “‎Risk Factors”.‎

Intangible Properties

Intangibles such as patents, software, specific technology know-how, and applications expertise all have a significant effect on the Company’s business. At present, drone delivery technology cannot be purchased as an off-the-shelf solution; therefore, the Company has been focused on developing proprietary technology which meets or exceeds anticipated Canadian government requirements. By virtue of being the first commercial ‎UAV company in the industry, the Company’s subsidiary, Draganfly Innovations, holds commercial patents. ‎

As at the Effective Date, the Company has the following patents and patents pending in the application stage in its portfolio and intends to continue to expand and grow its intellectual property portfolio:

As at the Effective Date, the Company also has the following registered trademarks and pending applications‎:

Specialized Skill and Knowledge

There is a specialized skill required for the development, operations, maintenance, sales and marketing ‎of the ‎Company’s technology. The Company’s current staff possesses the necessary skills and ‎knowledge required for the ‎Company’s business; however, additional employees may be added to staff ‎as needed. All operational staff hold ‎the appropriate licenses and certificate as mandated by Transport ‎Canada.‎

‎‎Changes to Contracts

No aspect of Draganfly’s business is anticipated to ‎be affected in the current financial year by renegotiation or ‎termination of any contract. ‎

Employees/Consultants

As at December 31, 2022 and as of the Effective Date, the Company had 55 employees (49 employees located in Canada and 6 employees located in the U.S.) and 5 full-time and part-time consultants whose services were, and continue to be, used on a regular basis for day-to-day operations.

Reorganizations

There have been no material reorganizations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries within the three most recently completed financial years or completed during or proposed for the current financial year.

RISK FACTORS

An investment in the Company’s common shares, without par value, (the “Common Shares”) is highly speculative and involves significant risks. In addition to the other ‎information contained in this AIF and the documents incorporated by ‎reference herein and therein, you should review and carefully consider the risks described herein. The risks described herein are not the only risk factors facing us and should not be ‎considered exhaustive. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us, or that we currently ‎consider immaterial, may also materially and adversely affect our business, operations and condition, financial ‎or otherwise.‎

Risks Related to the Company, its Business and Industry

The Company has a history of losses.

The Company has incurred net losses since its inception. The Company cannot assure that it can become profitable or avoid net losses in the future or that there will be any earnings or revenues in any future quarterly or other periods. The Company expects that its operating expenses will increase as it grows its business, including expending substantial resources for research, development and marketing. As a result, any decrease or delay in generating revenues could result in material operating losses.

A shareholder’s holding in the Company may be diluted if the Company issues additional Common ‎Shares or other securities in the future.‎

‎The Company may issue additional Common Shares or other securities in the future, which may dilute a ‎shareholder’s holding in the Company. ‎The Company’s articles permit the issuance of an unlimited ‎number of Common Shares, and shareholders have no pre-emptive rights in connection with further ‎issuances of any securities. The directors of the Company have the discretion to ‎determine if an ‎issuance of Common Shares or other securities is warranted, the price at which any such securities are ‎issued and the other ‎terms of issue of Common Shares or securities. In addition, the Company may ‎issue additional Common Shares upon the exercise of incentive stock options to ‎acquire Common ‎Shares under its share compensation plan or upon the exercise or conversion of other outstanding convertible securities of the Company, which will result in further dilution to shareholders. In addition, ‎the issuance of Common Shares or other securities in any potential ‎future acquisitions, if any, may also ‎result in further dilution to shareholder interests.‎

The Company expects to incur substantial research and development costs and devote significant resources to ‎identifying and commercializing new products and services, which could significantly reduce its profitability and ‎may never result in revenue to the Company.‎

‎The Company’s future growth depends on penetrating new markets, adapting existing products to new applications, ‎and introducing new products and services that achieve market acceptance. The Company plans to incur ‎substantial research and development costs as part of its efforts to design, develop and commercialize new ‎products and services and enhance its existing products. The Company believes that there are significant opportunities in a number of business areas. Because the Company accounts for research and development costs as ‎operating expenses, these expenditures will adversely affect its earnings in the future. Further, the Company’s ‎research and development programs may not produce successful results, and its new products and services may not ‎achieve market acceptance, create any additional revenue or become profitable, which could materially harm the ‎Company’s business, prospects, financial results and liquidity.‎

The Company’s adoption of new business models could fail to produce any financial returns.‎

‎Forecasting the Company’s revenues and profitability for new business models is inherently uncertain and ‎volatile. The Company’s actual revenues and profits for its business models may be significantly less ‎than the Company’s forecasts. Additionally, the new business models could fail for one or more of the ‎Company’s products and/or services, resulting in the loss of Company’s investment in the development and ‎infrastructure needed to support the new business models, and the opportunity cost of diverting management and ‎financial resources away from more successful businesses.‎

The Company will be affected by operational risks and may not be adequately insured for certain risks.‎

‎The Company will be affected by a number of operational risks and the Company may not be adequately insured ‎for certain risks, including: labour disputes; catastrophic accidents; fires; blockades or other acts of social activism; ‎changes in the regulatory environment; impact of non-compliance with laws and regulations; natural phenomena, ‎such as inclement weather conditions, floods, earthquakes and ground movements. There is no assurance that the ‎foregoing risks and hazards will not result in damage to, or destruction of, the Company’s technologies, personal ‎injury or death, environmental damage, adverse impacts on the Company’s operation, costs, monetary losses, ‎potential legal liability and adverse governmental action, any of which could have an adverse impact on the ‎Company’s future cash flows, earnings and financial condition. Also, the Company may be subject to or affected ‎by liability or sustain loss for certain risks and hazards against which the Company cannot insure or which the ‎Company may elect not to insure because of the cost. This lack of insurance coverage could have an adverse ‎impact on the Company’s future cash flows, earnings, results of operations and financial condition.‎

The Company operates in evolving markets, which makes it difficult to evaluate the Company’s business and ‎future prospects.‎

‎The Company’s unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) are sold in rapidly evolving markets. The commercial UAV market is in early stages of ‎customer adoption. Accordingly, the Company’s business and future prospects may be difficult to evaluate. The ‎Company cannot accurately predict the extent to which demand for its products and services will increase, if at all. ‎The challenges, risks and uncertainties frequently encountered by companies in rapidly evolving markets could ‎impact the Company’s ability to do the following:‎

If the Company fails to address these and other challenges, risks and uncertainties successfully, its business, results ‎of operations and financial condition would be materially harmed.‎

The Company operates in a competitive market.

The Company faces competition and new competitors will continue to emerge throughout the world. Services offered by the Company’s competitors may take a larger share of consumer spending than anticipated, which could cause revenue generated from the Company’s products and services to fall below expectations. It is expected that competition in these markets will intensify. Some of the other publicly traded companies we may compete with include Alpine 4 Tech, Inc., Aerovironment Inc., EHang Holdings Limited, AgEagle, Drone Delivery Canada, Inc., and Red Cat Holdings, Inc.

If competitors of the Company develop and market more successful products or services, offer competitive products or services at lower price points, or if the Company does not produce consistently high-quality and well-received products and services, revenues, margins, and profitability of the Company will decline.

The Company’s ability to compete effectively will depend on, among other things, the Company’s pricing of services and equipment, quality of customer service, development of new and enhanced products and services in response to customer demands and changing technology, reach and quality of sales and distribution channels and capital resources. Competition could lead to a reduction in the rate at which the Company adds new customers, a decrease in the size of the Company’s market share and a decline in its customers. Examples include but are not limited to competition from other companies in the UAV industry.

In addition, the Company could face increased competition should there be an award of additional licenses in jurisdictions in which the Company operates in.

The markets in which the Company competes are characterized by rapid technological change, which requires ‎the Company to develop new products and product enhancements and could render the Company’s existing ‎products obsolete. ‎

‎Continuing technological changes in the market for the Company’s products could make its products less ‎competitive or obsolete, either generally or for particular applications. The Company’s future success will depend ‎upon its ability to develop and introduce a variety of new capabilities and enhancements to its existing product and ‎service offerings, as well as introduce a variety of new product offerings, to address the changing needs of the ‎markets in which it offers products. Delays in introducing new products and enhancements, the failure to choose ‎correctly among technical alternatives or the failure to offer innovative products or enhancements at competitive ‎prices may cause existing and potential customers to purchase the Company’s competitors’ products.‎

If the Company is unable to devote adequate resources to develop new products or cannot otherwise successfully ‎develop new products or enhancements that meet customer requirements on a timely basis, its products could lose ‎market share, its revenue and profits could decline, and the Company could experience operating losses.‎

Failure to obtain necessary regulatory approvals from Transport Canada or other governmental agencies, or ‎limitations put on the use of small UAV in response to public privacy concerns, may prevent the Company from ‎expanding sales of its small UAV to non-military customers in Canada.‎

‎Transport Canada is responsible for establishing, managing, and developing safety and security ‎standards and regulations for civil aviation in Canada, and includes unmanned civil aviation ‎‎(drones). Civil operations include law enforcement, scientific research, or use by private sector ‎companies for commercial purposes. The CARs govern civil ‎aviation safety and security in Canada, and by extension govern operation of drones in Canada ‎to an acceptable level of safety.‎

While Transport Canada has been a leader in the development of regulations for the commercial ‎use of RPAS and continues to move forward rapidly with its regulatory development, it has ‎acknowledged the challenge of regulations keeping pace with the rapid development in ‎technology and the growing demand for commercial RPAS use, particularly in the beyond visual ‎line-of-sight environment. In 2012, the Canadian Aviation Regulation Advisory Council UAS ‎working group released its Phase 2 report which outlined a proposed set of revision to the CARs ‎to permit beyond visual line of sight operations. This report was the basis for the recently released NPA by Transport Canada on lower ‎risk beyond visual line-of-sight.‎

Failure to obtain necessary regulatory approvals from Transport Canada or other governmental ‎agencies, including the granting of certain SFOCs, or limitations put on the use of RPAS in ‎response to public safety concerns, may prevent the Company from testing or operating its ‎aircraft and/or expanding its sales which could have an adverse impact on the Company’s ‎business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.‎

There are risks associated with the regulatory regime and permitting requirements of the Company’s business.‎

‎A significant portion of the Company’s business is based on the operation of RPAS. The operation of ‎RPAS poses a risk or hazard to airspace users as well as personnel on the ground. As ‎the RPAS ‎industry is rapidly developing, the regulatory environment for RPAS is constantly evolving to keep pace. ‎‎As such, whenever a policy change with respect to operating regulations occurs, there is a risk that the ‎Company ‎could find itself to be in non-compliance with these new regulations. While the Company ‎endeavours to take all ‎necessary action to reduce the risks associated with the operations of RPAS and ‎to remain well-informed and up-‎to-date on any addendums and changes to the applicable regulations, ‎there is no assurance that an incident ‎involving an RPAS or the Company’s non-compliance would not ‎create a significant current or future liability for ‎the company.‎

The regulation of RPAS operations within the Canadian Domestic Airspace is still evolving and is expected ‎to continue to change ‎with the proliferation of RPAS, advancements in technology, and standardization within the ‎industry. ‎Changes to the regulatory regime may be disruptive and result in the Company needing to adopt ‎‎significant changes in its operations and policies, which may be costly and time-consuming, and may ‎materially ‎adversely affect the Company’s ability to manufacture and make delivery of its products and ‎services in a timely ‎fashion.‎

The Company’s business and research and development activities are subject to oversight by Transport ‎Canada, the federal ‎institution responsible for transportation policies and programs, including the rules in ‎the CARs. Currently, Transport Canada requires that any non-recreational operators of RPAS have a ‎‎SFOC. The Company’s ability to develop, test, demonstrate, and sell products and ‎services depends on ‎its ability to acquire and maintain a valid SFOC.‎

‎In addition, there exists public concern regarding the privacy implications of Canadian commercial and ‎law ‎enforcement use of small UAV. This concern has included calls to develop explicit written policies ‎and procedures ‎establishing UAV usage limitations. There is no assurance that the response from ‎regulatory agencies, customers and ‎privacy advocates to these concerns will not delay or restrict the ‎adoption of small UAV by prospective non-military customers‎.‎

The Company may be subject to the risks associated with future acquisitions.

As part of the Company’s overall business strategy, the Company may pursue select strategic acquisitions that would provide additional product or service offerings, additional industry expertise, and a stronger industry presence in both existing and new jurisdictions. Any such future acquisitions, if completed, may expose the Company to additional potential risks, including risks associated with: (a) the integration of new operations, services and personnel; (b) unforeseen or hidden liabilities; (c) the diversion of resources from the Company’s existing business and technology; (d) potential inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset new costs; (e) the expenses of acquisitions; or (f) the potential loss of or harm to relationships with both employees and existing users resulting from its integration of new businesses. In addition, any proposed acquisitions may be subject to regulatory approval.

‎The Company’s inability to retain management and key employees could impair the future success of the Company.

The Company’s future success depends substantially on the continued services of its executive officers and its key development personnel. If one or more of its executive officers or key development personnel were unable or unwilling to continue in their present positions, the Company might not be able to replace them easily or at all. In addition, if any of its executive officers or key employees joins a competitor or forms a competing company, the Company may lose experience, know-how, key professionals and staff members as well as business partners. These executive officers and key employees could develop drone technologies that could compete with and take customers and market share away from the Company.

A significant growth in the number of personnel would place a strain upon the Company’s management and resources.

The Company may experience a period of significant growth in the number of personnel that could place a strain upon its management systems and resources. The Company’s future will depend in part on the ability of its officers and other key employees to implement and improve financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures on a timely basis and to expand, train, motivate and manage its workforce. The Company’s current and planned personnel, systems, procedures and controls may be inadequate to support its future operations.

The Company faces uncertainty and adverse changes in the economy.‎

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Adverse changes in the economy could negatively impact the Company’s business. Future economic distress may ‎result in a decrease in demand for the Company’s products, which could have a material adverse impact on the ‎Company’s operating results and financial condition. Uncertainty and adverse changes in the economy could also ‎increase costs associated with developing and publishing products, increase the cost and decrease the availability of ‎sources of financing, and increase the Company’s exposure to material losses from bad debts, any of which could ‎have a material adverse impact on the financial condition and operating results of the Company.

The Company is subject to certain market-based financial risks associated with its operations.

The Company could be subject to interest rate risks, which is the risk that the value of a financial instrument might be adversely affected by a change in the interest rates. In seeking to minimize the risks from interest rate fluctuations, the Company manages exposure through its normal operating and financing activities, however market fluctuations could increase the costs at which the Company can access capital and its ability to obtain financing and the Company’s cash balances carry a floating rate of interest. In addition, the Company engages in transactions in currencies other than its functional currency. Depending on the timing of these transactions and the applicable currency exchange rates, conversions to the Company’s functional currency may positively or negatively impact the Company.

The COVID-19‎ pandemic could negatively affect our business, operations and future financial performance.

In March 2020 the World Health Organization designated the outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus, specifically identified ‎as COVID-19, as a global pandemic. This resulted in governments, companies, and individuals worldwide enacting emergency measures to combat the spread of ‎the virus, including the implementation of travel bans, mandated and self-imposed quarantine ‎periods and physical distancing, that have caused a material disruption to businesses globally. Throughout the course of the pandemic, the impact of COVID-19 has varied significantly due to both global and localized infection rates, notwithstanding widespread vaccine availability within Canada and the United States beginning in spring 2020.

As a result of the pandemic, global equity markets have experienced significant volatility and weakness. ‎Governments and central banks have reacted with significant monetary and fiscal interventions designed ‎to stabilize economic conditions. Such volatility has let to significant challenges to the global supply chain, disrupted labor markets and has recently contributed to rising levels of inflation. The Company has experienced material pandemic related impacts, including the loss of its primary customer engineering customer in 2020 due to mandated stay-at-home orders. The duration and impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is unknown at this ‎time, as is the efficacy of the government and central bank interventions. ‎ As such, the Company cannot predict with any certainty what the future impacts the pandemic may have on its business.

Management of the Company has and continues to closely monitor the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic, with a focus on the health and safety of the Company’s employees, customers, and business continuity. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Company has taken various ‎steps to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, including following government or health authority guidelines and restrictions at its facilities to ‎ensure the safety of its staff and product consumers. The Company will continue to follow government or health authority guidelines and restrictions and has experienced minimal disruption to its operations and supply chain. However, there is no guarantee that the company’s mitigation efforts will prove successful in combating the spread of the virus or that supply chain disruptions will not occur in the future. As the ‎Company reintegrates its personnel to its workplace, it may incur additional costs to adapt the workplace to ‎meet applicable health and safety requirements. The occurrence of additional waves of the virus or its variants, or insufficient vaccination levels may require the Company to revise or delay such plans. ‎To the extent that it is unable to effectively protect its workforce against the transmission of the virus, the ‎Company may be forced to slow or reverse its reintegration efforts and could face allegations of liability.‎

Given the uncertainties associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including ‎the uncertainty surrounding the remaining duration and outcome, COVID-19 variants and vaccine efficacy, the Company is unable to estimate the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business, financial condition, results of operations, and/or cash flows; however, the impact could be material. The Company cannot accurately predict ‎the future impact COVID-19 may have on, among others, the: (i) demand for drone ‎delivery services, (ii) severity and the length of potential measures taken by governments to manage the ‎spread of the virus and their effect on labour availability and supply lines, (iii) availability of essential ‎supplies, (iv) purchasing power of the Canadian dollar, or (v) ability of the Company to obtain necessary ‎financing. Despite global vaccination efforts, it is not possible to reliably estimate the length and ‎severity of these developments and the impact on the financial results and condition of the Company in ‎the future.‎

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine could destabilize global markets and threatens global peace.

On February 24, 2022, Russian military forces launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. In response, Ukrainian military personal and civilians are actively resisting the invasion. Many countries throughout the world have provided aid to the Ukraine in the form of financial aid and in some cases military equipment and weapons to assist in their resistance to the Russian invasion. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (“NATO”) has also mobilized forces to NATO member countries that are close to the conflict as deterrence to further Russian aggression in the region. The outcome of the conflict is uncertain and is likely to have wide ranging consequences on the peace and stability of the region and the world economy. Certain countries including Canada and the United States, have imposed strict financial and trade sanctions against Russia and such sanctions may have far reaching effects on the global economy. The long-term impacts of the conflict and the sanctions imposed on Russia remain uncertain.

Negative macroeconomic and geopolitical trends could affect the Company’s ability to access sources of ‎capital.‎

The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine could negatively impact the Company’s ability to obtain financing and access sources of capital. Both events have led to significant market volatility as governments undertake measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and discourage political conflict. These events have contributed to significant uncertainty in global markets, increased inflationary pressures, and could lead to a tightening of credit markets and a decline in economic activity. These impacts could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s ‎liquidity and ability to obtain financing in the future.‎ As the Company has a history of losses and present revenues do not allow it to sustain its operations, an inability to access credit or capital markets could undermine the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

‎‎The Company may be subject to the risks associated with foreign operations in other countries.

The Company’s primary revenues are expected to be achieved in Canada and the US. However, the Company may expand to markets outside of North America and become subject to risks normally associated with conducting business in other countries. As a result of such expansion, the Company may be subject to the legal, political, social and regulatory requirements and economic conditions of foreign jurisdictions. The Company cannot predict government positions on such matters as foreign investment, intellectual property rights or taxation. A change in government positions on these issues could adversely affect the Company’s business.

If the Company expands its business to foreign markets, it will need to respond to rapid changes in market conditions, including differing legal, regulatory, economic, social and political conditions in these countries. If the Company is not able to develop and implement policies and strategies that are effective in each location in which it does business, then the Company’s business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.

There are tax risks the Company may be subject to in carrying on business in Canada.

The Company is a resident of Canada for purposes of the Income ‎Tax Act (Canada). Since the ‎Company is operating in a new and developing industry there is a risk that ‎foreign governments may look to ‎increase their tax revenues or levy additional taxes to level the playing ‎field for perceived disadvantages to ‎traditional brick and mortar businesses. There is no guarantee that ‎governments will not impose such additional ‎adverse taxes in the future‎.‎

If critical components or raw materials used to manufacture the Company’s products become scarce or ‎unavailable, then the Company may incur delays in manufacturing and delivery of its products, which could ‎damage its business.‎

‎The Company obtains hardware components, various subsystems and systems from a limited group of suppliers. ‎The Company does not have long-term agreements with any of these suppliers that obligate it to continue to sell ‎components, subsystems, systems or products to the Company. The Company’s reliance on these suppliers ‎involves significant risks and uncertainties, including whether its suppliers will provide an adequate supply of ‎required components, subsystems, or systems of sufficient quality, will increase prices for the components, ‎subsystems or systems and will perform their obligations on a timely basis.‎

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Recently, the global supply chain has experienced significant disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and by geopolitical conflict, including the war in Ukraine. These disruptions have impacted a variety of products and goods and have had various downstream effects, making it more difficult to reliably and timely source and supply goods and has also resulted in shortages of labor and equipment. The macroeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and global conflicts have contributed to inflationary pressure and increased market volatility, adding additional pricing uncertainty. These conditions, if not mitigated or remedied in a timely manner, could delay or preclude delivery of raw materials needed to manufacture our products or delivery of the Company’s products to customers, particularly in international markets. If the ‎Company is unable to obtain components from third-party suppliers in the quantities and of the quality that it ‎requires, on a timely basis and at acceptable prices, then it may not be able to deliver its products on a timely or ‎cost-effective basis to its customers, or at all, which could cause customers to terminate their contracts with the Company, ‎increase the Company’s costs and seriously harm its business, results of operations and financial condition. ‎Moreover, if any of the Company’s suppliers become financially unstable, then it may have to find new suppliers. ‎It may take several months to locate alternative suppliers, if required, or to redesign the Company’s products to ‎accommodate components from different suppliers. The Company may experience significant delays in ‎manufacturing and shipping its products to customers and incur additional development, manufacturing and other ‎costs to establish alternative sources of supply if the Company loses any of these sources or is required to redesign ‎its products. The Company cannot predict if it will be able to obtain replacement components within the time ‎frames that it requires at an affordable cost, if at all.‎

Natural outdoor elements such as wind and precipitation may have a material adverse effect on the ‎use and effectiveness of the Company’s products.

The Company’s business will involve the operation and flying of UAVs, a technology-based product ‎used outside. As such, the business is subject to various risks inherent in a technology-based ‎businesses operated in outdoor conditions, including faulty parts, breakdowns and crashes. Although ‎the Company anticipates the use of its UAVs in good climactic conditions and that adequate flying ‎conditions will be monitored by trained personnel, there can be no assurance that unpredictable natural ‎outdoor elements will not have a material adverse effect on the use and effectiveness of its products.‎

The Company’s products may be subject to the recall or return.

Manufacturers and distributors of products are sometimes subject to the recall or return of their products ‎‎for a variety of reasons, including product defects, safety concerns, packaging issues and inadequate ‎or inaccurate ‎labeling disclosure. If any of the Company’s equipment were to be recalled due to an ‎alleged product ‎defect, safety concern or for any other reason, the Company could be required to incur ‎unexpected expenses of the recall ‎and any legal proceedings that might arise in connection with the ‎recall. The Company may lose a significant ‎amount of sales and may not be able to replace those sales ‎at an acceptable margin or at all. In ‎addition, a product recall may require significant management time ‎and attention. Additionally, product recalls may lead to ‎increased scrutiny of the Company’s operations ‎by Transport Canada or other regulatory agencies, requiring ‎further management time and attention and ‎potential legal fees, costs and other expenses.‎‎

‎‎If the Company releases defective products or services, its operating results could suffer.‎

‎Products and services designed and released by the Company involve extremely complex software ‎programs and ‎are difficult to develop and distribute. While the Company has quality controls in place to ‎detect and prevent defects in its ‎products and services before they are released, these quality controls ‎are subject to human error, ‎overriding, and reasonable resource constraints. Therefore, these quality ‎controls and preventative measures may ‎not be effective in detecting and preventing defects in the ‎Company’s products and services before they have been released into ‎the marketplace. In such an ‎event, the Company could be required, or decide voluntarily, to suspend the availability of the product or ‎services, which could significantly harm its business and operating results‎.‎

The Company’s products and services are complex and could have unknown defects or errors, which may give ‎rise to legal claims against the Company, diminish its brand or divert its resources from other purposes.‎

The Company’s UAVs rely on complex avionics, sensors, user-friendly interfaces and tightly integrated, ‎electromechanical designs to accomplish their missions. Despite testing, the Company’s products have contained ‎defects and errors and may in the future contain defects, errors or performance problems when first introduced, ‎when new versions or enhancements are released, or even after these products have been used by the Company’s ‎customers for a period of time. These problems could result in expensive and time-consuming design modifications ‎or warranty charges, delays in the introduction of new products or enhancements, significant increases in the ‎Company’s service and maintenance costs, exposure to liability for damages, damaged customer relationships and ‎harm to the Company’s reputation, any of which could materially harm the Company’s results of operations and ‎ability to achieve market acceptance. In addition, increased development and warranty costs could be substantial ‎and could significantly reduce the Company’s operating margins.‎

‎The existence of any defects, errors, or failures in the Company’s products or the misuse of the Company’s ‎products could also lead to product liability claims or lawsuits against it. A defect, error or failure in one of the ‎Company’s UAV could result in injury, death or property damage and significantly damage the Company’s ‎reputation and support for its UAV in general. The Company anticipates this risk will grow as its UAV begins to be ‎used in Canadian domestic airspace and urban areas. The Company’s UAV test systems also have the potential to ‎cause injury, death or property damage in the event that they are misused, malfunction or fail to operate properly ‎due to unknown defects or errors.‎ Although the Company maintains insurance policies, it cannot provide any assurance that this insurance will be ‎adequate to protect the Company from all material judgments and expenses related to potential future claims or ‎that these levels of insurance will be available in the future at economical prices or at all. A successful product ‎liability claim could result in substantial cost to us. Even if the Company is fully insured as it relates to a particular claim, the ‎claim could nevertheless diminish the Company’s brand and divert management’s attention and resources, which ‎could have a negative impact on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.‎

Shortfalls in available external research and development funding could adversely affect the Company.‎

‎The Company depends on its research and development activities to develop the core technologies used in its UAV ‎products and for the development of the Company’s future products. A portion of the Company’s research and ‎development activities can depend on funding by commercial companies and the Canadian government. Canadian ‎government and commercial spending levels can be impacted by a number of variables, including general ‎economic conditions, specific companies’ financial performance and competition for Canadian government ‎funding with other Canadian government-sponsored programs in the budget formulation and appropriation ‎processes. Moreover, the Canadian, federal and provincial governments provide energy rebates and incentives to ‎commercial companies, which directly impact the amount of research and development that companies ‎appropriate for energy systems. To the extent that these energy rebates and incentives are reduced or eliminated, ‎company funding for research and development could be reduced. Any reductions in available research and ‎development funding could harm the Company’s business, financial condition and operating results.‎

The Company could be prohibited from shipping its products to certain countries if it is unable to obtain ‎Canadian government authorization regarding the export of its products, or if current or future export laws limit ‎or otherwise restrict the Company’s business.‎

The Company must comply with Canadian federal and provincial laws regulating the export of its products. In ‎some cases, explicit authorization from the Canadian government is needed to export its products. The export ‎regulations and the governing policies applicable to the Company’s business are subject to change. The Company ‎cannot provide assurance that such export authorizations will be available for its products in the future. ‎Compliance with these laws has not significantly limited the Company’s operations or sales in the recent past, but ‎could significantly limit them in the future. Non-compliance with applicable export regulations could potentially ‎expose the Company to fines, penalties and sanctions. If the Company cannot obtain required government ‎approvals under applicable regulations, the Company may not be able to sell its products in certain international ‎jurisdictions, which could adversely affect the Company’s financial condition and results of operations.‎

Negative consumer perception regarding the Company’s products‎ could have a material adverse effect on the demand for the Company’s ‎products and the business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows of the Company.

The Company believes the UAV industry is highly dependent upon consumer perception regarding the ‎safety, efficacy, and quality of the UAV used. Consumer perception of these products can be ‎significantly influenced by scientific research or findings, regulatory investigations, litigation, media attention, ‎and other publicity regarding the use of UAV. There can be no assurance that future scientific research, ‎findings, regulatory proceedings, litigation, media attention, or other research findings or publicity will be ‎favourable to the UAV market. Future research reports, findings, regulatory proceedings, litigation, media ‎attention or other publicity that are perceived as less favourable than, or that question, earlier research ‎reports, findings or publicity could have a material adverse effect on the demand for the Company’s ‎products and the business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows of the Company. The ‎dependence upon consumer perceptions means that adverse scientific research reports, findings, ‎regulatory proceedings, litigation, media attention or other publicity, whether or not accurate or with merit, ‎could have a material adverse effect on the Company, the demand for the Company’s products, and the ‎business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows of the Company. Further, adverse ‎publicity reports or other media attention regarding the safety, the efficacy, and quality of UAV based surveys in general, or the Company’s products specifically, ‎could have a material adverse effect.‎

If the Company fails ‎‎to successfully promote its product brand, this could have a material adverse ‎effect on the Company’s business, prospects, ‎‎financial condition and results of operations‎.

The Company believes that brand recognition is an important factor to its success. If the Company fails ‎‎to promote its brands successfully, or if the expenses of doing so are disproportionate to any increased ‎‎net sales it achieves, it would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, prospects, ‎‎financial condition and results of operations. This will depend largely on the Company’s ability to ‎‎maintain trust, be a technology leader, and continue to provide high-quality and secure technologies, ‎‎products and services. Any negative publicity about the Company or its industry, the quality and reliability of the Company’s technologies, products and services, the Company’s risk management ‎‎processes, changes to the Company’s technologies, products and services, its ability to effectively ‎‎manage and resolve customer complaints, its privacy and security practices, litigation, regulatory activity, and the experience of sellers and buyers with the Company’s products or services, could adversely affect the Company’s reputation and the confidence in and use of the ‎‎Company’s technologies, products and services. Harm to the Company’s brand can arise from ‎‎many sources, including; failure by the Company or its partners to satisfy expectations of service and quality; inadequate protection of sensitive information; compliance failures and claims; litigation and ‎‎other claims; employee misconduct; and misconduct by the Company’s partners, service ‎‎providers, or other counterparties. If the Company does not successfully maintain a strong and trusted brand, its business could be materially and adversely affected.‎ ‎

The Company may be subject to electronic communication security risks.

A significant potential vulnerability of electronic communications is the security of transmission of confidential information over public networks. Cyberattacks could result in unauthorized access to the Company’s computer systems or its third-party IT service provider’s systems and, if successful, misappropriate personal or confidential information. Anyone who is able to circumvent the Company’s security measures could misappropriate proprietary information or cause interruptions in its operations. The Company may be required to expend capital and other resources to protect against such security breaches or to alleviate problems caused by such breaches.

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in the volume and sophistication of targeted cyber-attacks. Pandemic-adjusted operations, such as work ‎from home arrangements and remote access to the Company’s systems, may pose heightened risk of ‎cyber security and privacy breaches and may put additional stress on the Company’s IT infrastructure. A failure of such infrastructure could severely limit the Company’s ability ‎to conduct ordinary operations or expose the Company to liability. To date, the Company’s systems have functioned capably, and it has not experienced a material impact to its ‎operations as a result of an IT infrastructure issue.‎ In addition, the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine and the response of the global community to such aggression is widely seen as increasing the risk of state-sponsored cyberattacks.

Even the most well-protected IT networks, systems and facilities remain potentially vulnerable because the techniques used in attempted security breaches are continually evolving and generally are not recognized until launched against a target or, in some cases, are designed not to be detected and, in fact, may not be detected. Any such compromise of the Company’s or its third party’s IT service providers’ data security and access, public disclosure, or loss of personal or confidential business information, could result in legal claims and proceedings, liability under laws to protect privacy of personal information, and regulatory penalties, and could disrupt our operations, require significant management attention and resources to remedy any damages that result, and damage our reputation and customers willingness to transact business with us, any of which could adversely affect our business.

The Company’s business could be adversely affected if its consumer protection and data privacy practices are not ‎perceived as adequate or there are breaches of its security measures or unintended disclosures of its consumer data.‎

‎The rate of privacy law-making is accelerating globally and interpretation and application of consumer protection ‎and data privacy laws in Canada, the United States, Europe and elsewhere are often uncertain, contradictory and in ‎flux. As business practices are being challenged by regulators, private litigants, and consumer protection agencies ‎around the world, it is possible that these laws may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with ‎the Company’s data and/or consumer protection practices. If so, this could result in increased litigation government ‎or court-imposed fines, judgments or orders requiring that the Company change its practices, which could have an ‎adverse effect on its business and reputation. Complying with these various laws could cause the Company to incur ‎substantial costs or require it to change its business practices in a manner adverse to its business.‎

‎The Company relies on its business partners, and they may be given access to sensitive and proprietary ‎information in order to provide services and support to the Company’s teams.‎

‎The Company relies on various business partners, including third-party service providers, vendors, licensing partners, ‎development partners, and licensees, among others, in some areas of the Company’s business. In some cases, these ‎third parties are given access to sensitive and proprietary information in order to provide services and support to the ‎Company’s teams. These third parties may misappropriate the Company’s information and engage in ‎unauthorized use of it. The failure of these third parties to provide adequate services and technologies, or the failure ‎of the third parties to adequately maintain or update their services and technologies, could result in a disruption to ‎the Company’s business operations. Further, disruptions in the financial markets and economic downturns may ‎adversely affect the Company’s business partners and they may not be able to continue honoring their obligations ‎to the Company. Alternative arrangements and services may not be available to the Company on commercially ‎reasonable terms or the Company may experience business interruptions upon a transition to an alternative partner ‎or vendor. If the Company loses one or more significant business partners, the Company’s business could be ‎harmed.‎

If the Company fails to protect, or incurs significant costs in defending, its intellectual property and other ‎proprietary rights, the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially ‎harmed.‎

‎The Company’s success depends, in large part, on its ability to protect its intellectual property and other proprietary ‎rights. The Company relies primarily on patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and unfair competition laws, ‎as well as license agreements and other contractual provisions, to protect the Company’s intellectual property and ‎other proprietary rights. However, a portion of the Company’s technology is not patented, and the Company may ‎be unable or may not seek to obtain patent protection for this technology. Moreover, existing Canadian legal ‎standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of intellectual property rights offer only ‎limited protection, may not provide the Company with any competitive advantages, and may be challenged by ‎third parties. The laws of countries other than Canada may be even less protective of intellectual property rights. ‎Accordingly, despite its efforts, the Company may be unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon or ‎misappropriating its intellectual property or otherwise gaining access to the Company’s technology. Unauthorized ‎third parties may try to copy or reverse engineer the Company’s products or portions of its products or otherwise ‎obtain and use the Company’s intellectual property. Moreover, many of the Company’s employees have access to ‎the Company’s trade secrets and other intellectual property. If one or more of these employees leave to work for ‎one of the Company’s competitors, then they may disseminate this proprietary information, which may as a result ‎damage the Company’s competitive position. If the Company fails to protect its intellectual property and other ‎proprietary rights, then the Company’s business, results of operations or financial condition could be materially ‎harmed. From time to time, the Company may have to initiate lawsuits to protect its intellectual property and other ‎proprietary rights. Pursuing these claims is time consuming and expensive and could adversely impact the ‎Company’s results of operations.‎

‎In addition, affirmatively defending the Company’s intellectual property rights and investigating whether the ‎Company is pursuing a product or service development that may violate the rights of others may entail significant ‎expense. Any of the Company’s intellectual property rights may be challenged by others or invalidated through ‎administrative processes or litigation. If the Company resorts to legal proceedings to enforce its intellectual property ‎rights or to determine the validity and scope of the intellectual property or other proprietary rights of others, then the ‎proceedings could result in significant expense to the Company and divert the attention and efforts of the ‎Company’s management and technical employees, even if the Company prevails.‎

Obtaining and maintaining the Company’s patent protection depends on compliance with various procedural, document ‎submission, fee payment, and other requirements imposed by governmental patent agencies, and its patent ‎protection could be reduced or eliminated for non-compliance with these requirements.‎

‎The CIPO, the USPTO and various foreign national or international patent agencies ‎require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment, and other similar provisions during ‎the patent application process. Periodic maintenance fees on any issued patent are due to be paid to the CIPO, the USPTO and ‎various foreign national or international patent agencies in several stages over the lifetime of the patent. While an ‎inadvertent lapse can in many cases be cured by payment of a late fee or by other means in accordance with the ‎applicable rules, there are situations in which non-compliance can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or ‎patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction. Non-compliance ‎events that could result in abandonment or lapse of patent rights include, but are not limited to, failure to timely file ‎national and regional stage patent applications based on the Company’s international patent application, failure to respond to ‎official actions within prescribed time limits, non-payment of fees, and failure to properly legalize and submit ‎formal documents. If the Company fails to maintain the patents and patent applications covering its product candidates, its ‎competitors might be able to enter the market, which would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business. ‎

While a patent may be granted by a national patent office, there is no guarantee that the granted patent is valid. ‎Options exist to challenge the validity of a patent which, depending upon the jurisdiction, may include re-‎examination, opposition proceedings before the patent office, and/or invalidation proceedings before the relevant ‎court. Patent validity may also be the subject of a counterclaim to an allegation of patent infringement.‎

Pending patent applications may be challenged by third parties in protest or similar proceedings. Third parties can ‎typically submit prior art material to patentability for review by the patent examiner. Regarding Patent Cooperation ‎Treaty applications, a positive opinion regarding patentability issued by the International Searching Authority does ‎not guarantee allowance of a national application derived from the Patent Cooperation Treaty application. The ‎coverage claimed in a patent application can be significantly reduced before the patent is issued, and the patent’s ‎scope can be modified after issuance. It is also possible that the scope of claims granted may vary from jurisdiction ‎to jurisdiction.‎

The grant of a patent does not have any bearing on whether the invention described in the patent application would ‎infringe the rights of earlier filed patents. It is possible to both obtain patent protection for an invention and yet still ‎infringe the rights of an earlier granted patent.‎

The Company may be sued by third parties for alleged infringement of their proprietary rights, which could be ‎costly, time-consuming and limit the Company’s ability to use certain technologies in the future.‎

‎The Company may become subject to claims that its technologies infringe upon the intellectual property or other ‎proprietary rights of third parties. Any claims, with or without merit, could be time-consuming and expensive, and ‎could divert the Company’s management’s attention away from the execution of its business plan. Moreover, any ‎settlement or adverse judgment resulting from these claims could require the Company to pay substantial amounts ‎or obtain a license to continue to use the disputed technology, or otherwise restrict or prohibit the Company’s use of ‎the technology. The Company cannot assure that it would be able to obtain a license from the third party asserting ‎the claim on commercially reasonable terms, if at all, that the Company would be able to develop alternative ‎technology on a timely basis, if at all, or that the Company would be able to obtain a license to use a suitable ‎alternative technology to permit the Company to continue offering, and the Company’s customers to continue ‎using, the Company’s affected product. An adverse determination also could prevent the Company from offering ‎its products to others. Infringement claims asserted against the Company may have a material adverse effect on its ‎business, results of operations or financial condition.‎

‎The Company may not be able to protect its intellectual property rights throughout the world.‎

‎Filing, prosecuting, and defending patents on all of the Company’s product candidates throughout the world would be ‎prohibitively expensive. Therefore, the Company has filed applications and/or obtained patents only in key markets ‎including the United States and Canada. Competitors may use the Company’s technologies in jurisdictions where it has not ‎obtained patent protection to develop their own products and their products may compete with products of the Company.‎‎

‎Failure to adhere to the Company’s financial reporting obligations and other public company requirements could adversely ‎affect the market price of the Common Shares.‎

‎The Company ‎is subject to ‎reporting and other obligations under applicable securities laws in Canada and the United States, and the rules ‎of the CSE and the Nasdaq. These reporting and other obligations ‎place significant demands on the Company’s management, administrative, operational and ‎accounting resources. If the Company is unable to meet such ‎demands in a timely and effective manner, ‎its ability to comply with its financial reporting obligations ‎and other rules applicable to reporting issuers ‎could be impaired. Moreover, any failure to maintain effective ‎internal controls could cause the Company ‎to fail to satisfy its reporting obligations or result in material misstatements in its ‎financial statements. If ‎the Company cannot provide reliable financial reports or prevent fraud, its reputation and operating ‎‎results could be materially adversely affected which could also cause investors to lose confidence in its ‎reported ‎financial information, which could result in a reduction in the trading price of the Common ‎Shares.‎

In addition, the Company does not expect that its disclosure controls and procedures and internal ‎controls over financial reporting will ‎prevent all errors or fraud. A control system, no matter how well ‎designed and implemented, can provide only ‎reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control ‎system’s objectives will be met. Further, the design of a control ‎system must reflect the fact that there ‎are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered ‎relative to their costs. Due to ‎the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide ‎absolute assurance ‎that all control issues within an organization are detected. The inherent limitations include the ‎realities that ‎judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple errors ‎or ‎mistakes. Controls can also be circumvented by individual acts of certain persons, by collusion of two ‎or more ‎people or by management override of the controls. Due to the inherent limitations in a control ‎system, ‎misstatements due to errors or fraud may occur and may not be detected in a timely manner or ‎at all‎.‎

We have limited operating experience as a publicly traded company in the United States

We have limited operating experience as a publicly traded company in the United States. Although our management team have experience managing a publicly-traded company, there is no assurance that the past experience of our management team will be sufficient to operate the Company as a publicly traded company in the United States, including timely compliance with the disclosure requirements of the SEC. We are required to develop and implement internal control systems and procedures in order to satisfy the periodic and current reporting requirements under applicable SEC regulations and comply with the listing standards of the Nasdaq. These requirements place significant strain on our management team, infrastructure and other resources. In addition, our management team may not be able to successfully or efficiently manage the Company as a U.S. public reporting company that is subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations.

‎If the Company is required to write down goodwill and other intangible assets, the Company’s financial ‎condition and results could be negatively affected. ‎

‎Goodwill impairment arises when there is deterioration in the capabilities of acquired assets to generate cash flows, ‎and the fair value of the goodwill dips below its book value. The Company is required to review its goodwill for ‎impairment at least annually. Events that may trigger goodwill impairment include deterioration in economic ‎conditions, increased competition, loss of key personnel, and regulatory action. Should any of these occur, an impairment of ‎goodwill relating to the acquisition of Dronelogics Systems Inc. could have a negative effect on the assets of the ‎Company.‎

From time to time, the Company may become involved in legal proceedings, which could adversely affect the ‎Company.‎

‎The Company may, from time to time in the future, become subject to legal proceedings, claims, litigation and ‎government investigations or inquiries, which could be expensive, lengthy, and disruptive to normal business ‎operations. In addition, the outcome of any legal proceedings, claims, litigation, investigations or inquiries may be ‎difficult to predict and could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, operating results, or ‎financial condition.‎

The Company’s directors and officers may have conflicts of interest in conducting their duties.

Because directors and officers of the Company are or may become directors or officers of other ‎reporting companies or have significant shareholdings in other technology companies, the directors and ‎officers of the Company may have conflicts of interest in conducting their duties. The Company and its ‎directors and officers will attempt to minimize such conflicts. In the event that such a conflict of interest ‎arises at a meeting of the directors of the Company, a director who has such a conflict will abstain from ‎voting for or against a particular matter in which the director has the conflict. In appropriate cases, the ‎Company will establish a special committee of independent directors to review a particular matter in ‎which several directors, or officers, may have a conflict. In determining whether or not the Company will ‎participate in a particular program and the interest therein to be acquired by it, the directors will primarily ‎consider the potential benefits to the Company, the degree of risk to which the Company may be ‎exposed and its financial position at that time. Other than as indicated, the Company has no other ‎procedures or mechanisms to deal with conflicts of interest.‎

Our Articles ‎provide that the Company must indemnify a director or former director against all judgments, penalties ‎or fines to which such person is or may be liable by reason of such person being or having been a director of the ‎Company and the executive officers and directors may also have rights to indemnification from the Company, ‎including ‎pursuant to directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies, that will survive termination of their ‎‎agreements‎.‎

Changes in accounting standards and subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments by management ‎related to ‎complex accounting matters could significantly affect the Company’s reported financial results ‎or financial condition.‎

‎Generally accepted accounting principles and related accounting pronouncements, implementation ‎guidelines and ‎interpretations with regard to a wide range of matters that are relevant to the Company’s ‎business, including but not limited to ‎revenue recognition, impairment of goodwill and intangible assets, ‎inventory, income taxes and litigation, are highly ‎complex and involve many subjective assumptions, ‎estimates and judgments. Changes in these rules or their ‎interpretation or changes in underlying ‎assumptions, estimates or judgments could significantly change the Company’s reported ‎financial ‎performance or financial condition in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.‎

Risks Related to Our Common Shares

The market price of the Common Shares may be highly volatile.‎

The market price of the Common Shares may be highly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations ‎in response to a number of factors that are beyond our control, including but not limited ‎to‎

If the market price of our Common Shares drops significantly, shareholders could institute securities class action ‎lawsuits against us, regardless of the merits of such claims. Such a lawsuit could cause us to incur substantial ‎costs and could divert the time and attention of our management and other resources from our business. This ‎could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.‎

There is no guarantee that an active trading market for our Common Shares will be maintained on ‎the CSE and/or the Nasdaq. Investors may not be able to sell their Common Shares quickly or at the ‎latest market price if the trading in our Common Shares is not active.‎

Our Common Shares are currently listed on the CSE, Nasdaq, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, however, our shareholders may be unable to sell significant quantities of Common Shares into the public ‎trading markets without a significant reduction in the price of their Common Shares, or at all and there can be no guarantee that an active trading market for the Common Shares ‎may be maintained. There can be no assurance that ‎there will be sufficient liquidity of our Common Shares on the trading market, and that we will continue to meet ‎the listing requirements of the CSE, the Nasdaq or any other public listing exchange.

Future issuances of equity securities by us or sales by our existing shareholders may cause the price ‎of our Common Shares to fall.‎

The market price of our Common Shares could decline as a result of issuances of securities or sales by our ‎existing shareholders in the market, including by our directors, executive officers and significant shareholders, or ‎the perception that these sales could occur. Sales of our Common Shares by shareholders might also make it ‎more difficult for us to sell Common Shares at a time and price that we deem appropriate. We also expect to ‎issue Common Shares in the future. Future issuances of Common Shares, or the perception that such issuances ‎are likely to occur, could affect the prevailing trading prices of the Common Shares.‎

We may never pay dividends over the foreseeable future.‎

Investors should not rely on an investment in our Common Shares to provide dividend ‎income. The Company does not anticipate that it will pay any cash dividends to holders of its Common ‎Shares in the foreseeable future. Instead, the Company plans to retain any earnings to maintain and expand ‎its operations. In addition, any future debt financing arrangement may contain terms prohibiting or limiting ‎the amount of dividends that may be declared or paid on its Common Shares. Accordingly, investors must ‎rely on sales of their Common Shares after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to ‎realize any return on their investment. As a result, investors seeking cash dividends should not purchase the ‎Company’s Common Shares.‎

United States investors may not be able to obtain enforcement of civil liabilities against us.

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The Company is incorporated under the laws of British Columbia, Canada, and its principal executive offices are located in Canada. Most of the Company’s directors and officers and most of the experts named in this AIF reside outside of the United States and all or a substantial portion of the Company’s assets and the assets of these persons are located outside the United States. Consequently, it may not be possible for an investor to effect service of process within the United States on the Company or those persons. Furthermore, it may not be possible for an investor to enforce judgments obtained in United States courts based upon the civil liability provisions of United States federal securities laws or other laws of the United States against those persons or the Company. There is doubt as to the enforceability, in original actions in Canadian courts, of liabilities based upon United States federal securities laws and as to the enforceability in Canadian courts of judgments of United States courts obtained in actions based upon the civil liability provisions of the United States federal securities laws. Therefore, it may not be possible to enforce those actions against the Company, certain of the Company’s directors and officers or the experts named in this AIF.

We are an emerging growth company and take advantage of reduced disclosure requirements ‎applicable to emerging growth companies, which could make our Common Shares less attractive to ‎investors.‎

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in the JOBS Act. We will remain an emerging growth ‎company until the earliest to occur of (i) the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross ‎revenue of $1.235 billion or more; (ii) December 31, 2026 (the last day of the fiscal year ending after the fifth ‎anniversary of the date of the completion of the first sales of its common equity pursuant to an effective ‎registration statement under the Securities Act); (iii) ‎the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-‎year period; or (iv) the date we qualify as a “large accelerated filer” under the rules of the SEC, which means the ‎market value of our Common Shares held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the last business day of ‎its most recently completed second fiscal quarter after we have been a reporting company in the United States ‎for at least 12 months. For so long as we remain an emerging growth company, we are permitted to and intend to ‎rely upon exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are applicable to other public companies that ‎are not emerging growth companies. These exemptions include not being required to comply with the auditor ‎attestation requirements of Section 404 (“Section 404”) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as amended (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”).‎

We may take advantage of some, but not all, of the available exemptions available to emerging growth ‎companies. We cannot predict whether investors will find our Common Shares less attractive if we rely on these ‎exemptions. If some investors find our Common Shares less attractive as a result, there may be a less active ‎trading market for our Common Shares and the price of our Common Shares may be more volatile.

We incur increased costs as a result of operating as a public company in the United States ‎and our management is required to devote substantial time to compliance requirements.‎

As a U.S. public company, particularly if or when we are no longer an “emerging growth company” as defined ‎under the JOBS Act, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses, in addition to those we ‎incur as a Canadian public company, that we did not incur prior to being listed on Nasdaq. In ‎addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and rules implemented by the SEC and Nasdaq impose various other ‎requirements on public companies, and we spend time and resources to ensure compliance with our ‎reporting obligations in both Canada and the United States.‎

For example, pursuant to Section 404, we are required to furnish a report by our management on our internal ‎control over financial reporting (“ICFR”), which, if or when we are no longer an emerging growth company, must ‎be accompanied by an attestation report on ICFR issued by our independent registered public accounting firm. ‎To achieve compliance with Section 404, we must document and evaluate our ICFR, ‎which is both costly and challenging. In this regard, we must dedicate internal resources, potentially engage outside consultants and adopt a detailed work plan to assess and document the ‎adequacy of our ICFR, continue steps to improve control processes as appropriate, validate through testing that ‎controls are functioning as documented and implement a continuous reporting and improvement process for ‎ICFR. Despite our efforts, there is a risk that neither we nor our independent registered public accounting firm will ‎be able to conclude that our ICFR is effective as required by Section 404. This ‎could result in a determination that there are one or more material weaknesses in our ICFR, which could cause an ‎adverse reaction in the financial markets due to a loss of confidence in the reliability of our consolidated ‎financial statements.‎

In addition, becoming a public company in the United States has increased legal and financial compliance as well ‎as regulatory costs, such as additional Nasdaq fees, and has made some of our public company obligations ‎more time consuming. We invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards in ‎both Canada and the United States, and this investment results in increased general and administrative ‎expenses and increased diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to ‎compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with public company laws, regulations and standards in the ‎United States are insufficient, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and our business ‎may be harmed.‎

Being a public company in the United States and complying with applicable rules and ‎regulations also makes it more expensive for us to obtain sufficient levels of director and officer liability insurance ‎coverage. This factor may also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified executive officers and ‎members of our Board of Directors.‎

As a foreign private issuer, we are subject to different U.S. securities laws and rules than a domestic U.S. ‎issuer, which may limit the information publicly available compared to U.S. domestic issuers.‎

We are currently a “foreign private issuer” under applicable U.S. federal securities laws and, therefore, are ‎not required to comply with all of the periodic disclosure and current reporting requirements of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and related rules and regulations. As a result, we do ‎not file the same reports that a U.S. domestic issuer would file with the SEC, although we are required to file ‎with or furnish to the SEC the continuous disclosure documents that we are required to file in Canada under ‎Canadian securities laws. In addition, our officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the ‎reporting and “short swing” profit recovery provisions of Section 16 of the Exchange Act. Therefore, our ‎shareholders may not know on as timely a basis when our officers, directors and principal shareholders purchase ‎or sell our securities as the reporting periods under the corresponding Canadian insider reporting requirements are ‎longer. In addition, as a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from the proxy rules under the Exchange Act. We ‎are also exempt from Regulation FD, which prohibits issuers from making selective disclosures of material non-‎public information. While we expect to comply with the corresponding requirements relating to proxy statements ‎and disclosure of material non-public information under Canadian securities laws, these requirements differ from ‎those under the Exchange Act and Regulation FD and shareholders should not expect to receive in every case the ‎same information at the same time as such information is provided by U.S. domestic issuers.‎

In addition, as a foreign private issuer, we have the option to follow certain Canadian corporate governance ‎practices, except to the extent that such laws would be contrary to U.S. federal securities laws and Nasdaq ‎listing rules and provided that we disclose the requirements we are not following and describe the Canadian ‎practices we follow instead. We rely on this exemption in part. As a result, our shareholders may not have ‎the same protections afforded to shareholders of U.S. domestic issuers that are subject to all U.S. corporate ‎governance requirements.‎

At some point in the future, we may cease to be a foreign private issuer. If we cease to ‎qualify, we will be subject to the same reporting requirements and corporate governance requirements as a U.S. ‎domestic issuer, which may increase our costs of being a public company in the ‎United States.‎

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE

Common Shares

The Company’s authorized share structure consists of: (i) an unlimited number of Common Shares; and (ii) an unlimited ‎number of Preferred Shares, issuable in series.‎

As of the date hereof, 34,984,965 Common Shares are issued and outstanding (34,270,579 as at December 31, 2022). Each Common Share entitles the holder ‎to receive notice of and attend all meetings of the shareholders. Each Common Share carries the right to one vote. The ‎holders of Common Shares are entitled to receive any dividends declared by the Company in respect of the Common ‎Shares at such time and in such amount as may be determined by the Board, in its discretion. In the event of the ‎liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, holders of Common Shares ‎are also entitled to participate, rateably, in the distribution of the assets of the Company, subject to the rights of the ‎holders of any other class of shares ranking in priority to the Common Shares. ‎

As of the date hereof, nil Preferred Shares are issued and outstanding (nil as at December 31, 2022). The Preferred Shares may be issuable in series ‎and the directors may, from time to time before the issue of any Preferred Shares of any particular series, define and ‎attach special rights, privileges, restrictions, and conditions to the Preferred Shares of any series, including voting rights, ‎entitlement to dividends, and redemption, conversion, and exchange rights. In the event of the liquidation, dissolution, or ‎winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, holders of Preferred Shares will rank on a parity with ‎holders of the Preferred Shares of every other series and be entitled to preference over the Common Shares and over ‎any other shares of the Company ranking junior to the Preferred Shares.‎

Market for Securities

Trading Price and Volume of Common Shares

The Common Shares are listed and posted for trading on the CSE under the symbol “DPRO” and on the Nasdaq under the symbol “DPRO”.‎

The following table sets forth the price range (high and low prices) in Canadian dollars of the Common Shares and volume traded on the CSE, for the periods indicated below.

On March 24, 2023, the last trading day of the Common Shares on the CSE before the date of this ‎AIF, the closing ‎price of the Common Shares was C$2.23.

The following table provides the price ranges and trading volume of the Common Shares on Nasdaq for ‎the periods indicated below:‎

On March 24, 2023, the last trading day of the Common Shares on the Nasdaq before the date of this ‎AIF, the closing ‎price of the Common Shares was US$1.65.

Prior Sales

Common Shares

The following table summarizes the issuances of common shares for the year ended December 31, 2022:

Notes:

Stock Options

During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company did not grant any stock options pursuant to its share compensation plan.

Restricted Share Units

During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company granted restricted share units (“RSUs”) pursuant to its share compensation plan exercisable for an aggregate of 1,820,972 Common Shares. The particulars of such grants are set forth in the following table:

ESCROWED SECURITIES

As of the Effective Date, there are no securities that are currently held in escrow or that are subject to contractual restriction on transfer.

DIVIDENDS

The Company has not declared or paid a dividend. Other than the requirements of the BCBCA, there are ‎no restrictions on the Company that would prevent it from paying a dividend. However, as of the Effective Date, the Board of Directors intends to retain any future earnings (when available) for reinvestment in ‎the Company’s business, and therefore, it has no current intention to declare or pay dividends on the ‎Common Shares in the foreseeable future. Any future determination to pay dividends on the Common ‎Shares will be at the sole discretion of the Board of Directors after considering a variety of factors and ‎conditions existing from time to time including its earnings, financial condition and other relevant factors‎.

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

As at the date hereof, the Board is comprised of seven individuals. The following table sets forth the names and municipalities of residence of the current directors and executive officers of the Company, their respective positions and offices with the Company and the date first appointed or elected as a director and/or officer and their principal occupation(s) within the past five years.

Name, Occupation and Security Holding

Notes:

As at the Effective Date, the directors and senior officers of Draganfly, as a group, beneficially own or control, directly or indirectly, 708,902 Common Shares or 2.0% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares.

The directors listed above will hold office until the next annual meeting of the Company or until their successors are elected or appointed.

Corporate Cease Trade Orders, Bankruptcies, Penalties or Sanctions

To the knowledge of management, no director or executive officer as at the date hereof, is or was within 10 years before the date hereof, a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer of any company (including Draganfly), that (a) was subject to an order that was issued while the director or executive officer was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer, or (b) was subject to an order that was issued after the director or executive officer ceased to be a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer and which resulted from an event that occurred while that person was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer. For the purposes hereof, “order” means (a) a cease trade order, (b) an order similar to a cease trade order, or (c) an order that denied the relevant company access to any exemption under securities legislation, that was in effect for a period of more than 30 consecutive days.

To the knowledge of management, other than as disclosed herein, no director or executive officer of Draganfly, or a shareholder holding a sufficient number of securities of Draganfly to affect materially the control of the company (a) is, as at the date hereof, or has been within the 10 years before the date hereof, a director or executive officer of any company (including Draganfly) that, while that person was acting in that capacity, or within a year of that person ceasing to act in that capacity, became bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or was subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold its assets, or (b) has, within the 10 years before the date hereof, become bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, or become subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors, or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold the assets of the director, executive officer or shareholder.

By Order of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador dated June 17, 2020, Deloitte Restructuring Inc. ‎was appointed as the receiver and manager of all current and future assets, undertakings, and properties of the ‎Kami Mine Limited Partnership, Kami General Partner Limited, and Alderon Iron Ore Corp. The receivership was ‎initiated by a secured creditor of the Kami Mine Limited Partnership after its failure to refinance the secured debt ‎due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Aasen was Corporate Secretary of Alderon Iron Ore Corp. and Secretary and ‎Director of Kami General Partner Limited until April 28, 2020.‎

Penalties or Sanctions

To the knowledge of management ‎, no director, executive officer or shareholder holding a sufficient number of securities of Draganfly to materially affect the control of the Company has been subject to: (i) any penalties or sanctions imposed by a court relating to securities legislation or by a securities regulatory authority or has entered into a settlement agreement with a securities regulatory authority; or (ii) any other penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or regulatory body that would likely be considered important to a reasonable investor in making an investment decision.

Conflicts of Interest

There are potential conflicts of interest to which the directors and officers of Draganfly will be subject to in connection with the operations of Draganfly. In particular, certain of the directors and officers of Draganfly are involved in managerial or director positions with other companies whose operations may, from time to time, be in direct competition with those of Draganfly or with entities which may, from time to time, provide financing to, or make equity investments in, competitors of Draganfly.

In accordance with the applicable corporate and securities legislation, directors who have a material interest or any person who is a party to a material contract or a proposed material contract with Draganfly are required, subject to certain exceptions, to disclose that interest and generally abstain from voting on any resolution to approve the contract. In addition, the directors are required to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of Draganfly. Certain of the directors and each of the executive officers of Draganfly have either other employment or other business or time restrictions placed on them and accordingly, these directors of Draganfly will only be able to devote part of their time to the affairs of Draganfly. To the extent that conflicts of interest arise, such conflicts will be resolved in accordance with the provisions of the applicable corporate law.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

Audit Committee Charter

The full text of the Company’s Audit Committee Charter is included as Schedule A to the AIF.

Audit Committee Composition

The following are the members of the Audit Committee as at the date hereof:

Note:

Relevant Education and Experience

Olen Aasen

Mr. Aasen is a corporate and securities lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in corporate, securities ‎and regulatory matters. He has been the Corporate Secretary, General Counsel or Vice President, Legal at ‎various Canadian and U.S. listed companies. Mr. Aasen obtained a J.D. from the University of British ‎Columbia in 2006 and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2007. Mr. Aasen was also appointed to the ‎‎2016 Legal 500 GC Powerlist for Canada‎.

Julie Myers Wood

Chief Executive Officer of Guidepost Solutions LLC ‎since ‎May 2014; ‎Chief Executive Officer of ICS ‎Consulting LLC; ‎and has held several ‎highlevel ‎positions within the U.S. ‎government including at the ‎‎Departments of Justice, Homeland ‎Security, Treasury, ‎and Commerce, ‎as well as at the White ‎House‎

John M. Mitnick

Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Valaurum, Inc., since August 2022; Member of Board of Directors of Valaurum, Inc., ‎March 2016 ‎to February ‎‎2018 and October ‎‎2019 to present; Advisor to Carbon ‎Neutral Royalty Ltd. ‎from ‎February 2022 to present; General ‎Counsel of the U.S. ‎Department ‎of Homeland Security from ‎February ‎‎2018 to September 2019; and ‎Senior Vice President, ‎‎General Counsel, and Secretary of The Heritage ‎‎Foundation ‎from March 2014 to February 2018‎.

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Each member of the Audit Committee has:

Audit Committee Oversight

At no time since the commencement of the Company’s financial year ended December 31, 2022, was a recommendation of the Committee to nominate or compensate an external auditor not adopted by the Board of Directors.

Reliance on Certain Exemptions

At no time since the commencement of the Company’s financial year ended December 31, 2022, has the Company relied on any exemption from NI 52-110, including Section 2.4 of NI 52-110 (De Minimis Non-Audit Services), or an exemption granted under Part 8 of NI 52-110.

The Company has relied upon the exemption provided by section 6.1 of NI 52-110 which exempts venture issuers from the requirement to comply with the restrictions on the composition of its audit committee.

Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures

The Audit Committee is authorized by the Board to review the performance of the Company’s external auditors and approve in advance provision of services other than auditing and to consider the independence of the external auditors, including reviewing the range of services provided in the context of all consulting services bought by the Company. The Audit Committee is authorized to approve any non-audit services or additional work which the Chairman of the Audit Committee deems as necessary who will notify the other members of the Audit Committee of such non-audit or additional work.

External Auditor Service Fees

The aggregate fees billed by the Company’s external auditors in each of the last two fiscal years for audit fees are as follows:

Notes:

Legal Proceedings AND Regulatory actions

Draganfly is not, and has not been at any time within the most recently completed financial year, a party to any legal proceedings, nor is or was Draganfly’s property the subject of any legal proceedings, known or contemplated, that involves a claim for damages exclusive of interest and costs that met or exceeded 10% of the Company’s current assets.

Further, there have not been any (a) penalties or sanctions imposed against the Company by a court relating to securities legislation or by a securities regulatory authority during the year ended December 31, 2022, (b) any other penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or regulatory body against the Company that would likely be considered important to a reasonable investor in making an investment decision, or (c) settlement agreements entered into by the Company before a court relating to securities legislation or with a securities regulatory authority during the year ended December 31, 2022.

INTERESTS OF MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS

Other than as set forth herein, or as previously disclosed, the Company is not aware of any material interests, ‎direct or indirect, by way of beneficial ownership of securities or otherwise, of any director or executive officer ‎or any shareholder holding more than 10% of the Common Shares or any associate or affiliate of any of the ‎foregoing in any transaction within the three most recently completed financial years or during the current ‎financial year or any proposed or ongoing transaction of the Company which has or will materially affect the ‎Company‎.

AUDITOR, TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

The auditors of the Company are Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton Labonte LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, 1500-1700, 1140 W Pender Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 4G1.

Endeavor Trust Corporation is the transfer agent and registrar for the Common Shares at its principal office in Vancouver, British Columbia.

MATERIAL CONTRACTS

There are no material contracts entered into by Draganfly within the most recently completed financial year, or ‎before the most recently completed financial year but which are still in effect, other than contracts entered into ‎in the ordinary course of business‎.

INTERESTS OF EXPERTS

There is no person or company whose profession or business gives authority to a statement made by such person or company and who is named as having prepared or certified a statement, report or valuation described or included in a filing, or referred to in a filing, made under NI 51-102 by the Company during, or related to, the Company’s most recently completed financial year other than Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton Labonte LLP, the Company’s auditors.

Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton Labonte LLP are the auditors of the Company and have confirmed that they are independent with respect to the Company within the meaning of the relevant rules and related interpretations prescribed by the relevant bodies in Canada and any applicable legislation or regulations.

Denis Silva, a director of the Company, is a lawyer at DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, which is a law firm that provides legal services to the Company. As of the date hereof, the associates and partners of DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, as a group, beneficially own, directly or indirectly, less than 1% of the outstanding Common Shares.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional information relating to the Company may be found on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.‎

Additional information, including directors’ and officers’ remuneration and indebtedness, principal holders of ‎Draganfly’s securities and securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans, where applicable, ‎will be contained in ‎Draganfly’s information circular for the next annual meeting of shareholders that involves the ‎election of directors and additional information as provided in ‎Draganfly’s comparative financial statements for its ‎most recently completed financial year. Draganfly will provide this information to any person, upon request made ‎to the Chief Financial Officer of ‎Draganfly at 2108 St. George Avenue Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7M 0K7. The ‎documents will also be located on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.‎

Additional financial information is provided in the Company’s comparative financial statements and ‎management’s discussion and analysis for the period ended December 31, 2022, which are also available on ‎SEDAR and EDGAR.

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SCHEDULE A

DRAGANFLY INC.

AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER

PURPOSE

Senior management of Draganfly Inc. (the “Company”), as overseen by its Board of Directors (the “Board”), has primary responsibility for the Company’s financial reporting, accounting systems and internal controls. The Audit Committee (the “Committee”) is a standing committee of the Board established for the purposes of overseeing:

COMPOSITION AND OPERATION

In addition, at least one member will be a “Committee Financial Expert” (as defined in the Definitions section of this Charter).

The foregoing requirements are subject to any exemptions, exceptions, cure periods or phase-in accommodations that may be available to the Company under applicable securities laws and stock exchange rules.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

Overall Committee:

To fulfill its responsibilities and duties the Committee will:

Public Filings, Policies and Procedures:

The Committee is responsible for:

External Auditors

The responsibilities and duties of the Committee as they relate to the external auditor are to:

Internal Controls and Financial Reporting

The Committee will:

Ethical and Legal Compliance

The responsibilities and duties of the Committee as they relate to compliance and risk management are to:

AUTHORITY

DEFINITIONS

Capitalized terms used in this Charter and not otherwise defined have the meaning attributed to them below:

“Affiliated Person” means an “affiliate” of, or a person “affiliated” with, a specified person, which is a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the person specified.

“Committee Financial Expert” means a person who has the following attributes:

“Executive Officer” means the Company’s president, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer (or, if there is no such accounting officer, the controller), any vice-president of the Company in charge of a principal business unit, division or function (such as sales, administration or finance), any other officer who performs a policy-making function, or any other person who performs similar policy-making functions for the Company.

“Family Member” means a person’s spouse, parents, children, siblings, mothers and fathers-in-law, sons and daughters-in-law, brothers and sisters-in-law, and anyone (other than domestic employees) who shares such person’s home.

“Financially Literate” means the ability to read and understand a set of fundamental financial statements, including the Company’s balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, that present a breadth and level of complexity of accounting issues that are generally comparable to the breadth and complexity of the issues that can reasonably be expected to be raised in the Company’s financial statements.

“Independent Director” means a director that is “independent” as the term is defined in both National Instrument 52-110 - Audit Committees (“NI 52-110”) and Nasdaq Rule 5605(a)(2), as each may be amended from time to time, and being a person other than an Executive Officer or employee of the Company or any other individual having a relationship which, in the opinion of the Company’s board of directors, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. The following persons shall not be considered independent:

Provided, however, that in addition to the requirements contained in this paragraph (B), audit committee members are also subject to additional, more stringent requirements under Rule 5605(c)(2).

Adopted by the Board on August 19, 2019, and amended Updated and Approved, 2021.