Unmanned Systems News & Articles

The latest unmanned systems news for UAV, UAS, UGV, USV, UUV, drones and robotics. Articles on product launches and technological advances in unmanned and autonomous design, research and manufacture.

EIZO Rugged Develops Video & GPGPU Cards for Unmanned Systems
EIZO Rugged Develops Video & GPGPU Cards for Unmanned Systems

EIZO Rugged Solutions, a leading developer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions for video and sensor data capturing and processing, as...

Jan 26, 2021
New Radar Altimeters Designed to Mitigate 5G Interference
New Radar Altimeters Designed to Mitigate 5G Interference

FreeFlight Systems has released a new series of radar altimeters for heavy rotorcraft, turboprops, business aviation, and military segments designed...

Jan 26, 2021
New Rugged MIMO Radio Launched
New Rugged MIMO Radio Launched

Horizon31 has introduced the MobileMesh Radio, a portable, ruggedized secure IP radio designed for mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) applications...

Jan 25, 2021
BVLOS Missile Target Designation Performed by Drone
BVLOS Missile Target Designation Performed by Drone

MBDA has successfully performed the first demonstration of its LynkEUs Dismounted system, which pairs an MMP anti-tank missile system in...

Jan 25, 2021
Flock Provides EASA-Compliant Commercial Drone Insurance
Flock Provides EASA-Compliant Commercial Drone Insurance

Flock has partnered with leading aviation underwriter Sompo International, allowing drone pilots and operators across Europe to access EASA-compliant commercial...

Jan 25, 2021
Forest Fire Monitoring with Drones and Wind Sensors
Forest Fire Monitoring with Drones and Wind Sensors

FT Technologies’ FT205 wind sensor has been used in conjunction with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to predict the progress...

Jan 25, 2021
Enhancing Safety & Efficiency for the Utilities Industry with Drones
Enhancing Safety & Efficiency for the Utilities Industry with Drones

SOARIZON has released the following article that outlines how power and utilities industries such as oil and gas, wind farms...

Jan 25, 2021
Ophir Receives Leonardo DRS 2020 Supplier Recognition Award
Ophir Receives Leonardo DRS 2020 Supplier Recognition Award

MKS Instruments, Inc has announced that Ophir Optics Group has been honored with a 2020 Supplier Recognition Award from Leonardo...

Jan 25, 2021
DARPA Gremlins UAS & Recovery System Completes Third Test
DARPA Gremlins UAS & Recovery System Completes Third Test

Dynetics has successfully completed a third test flight series with its prototype unmanned aerial system (UAS) and retrieval mechanism for...

Jan 22, 2021
High-Accuracy Inertial Navigation Systems for LiDAR Surveying
High-Accuracy Inertial Navigation Systems for LiDAR Surveying

OxTS has released a brochure detailing how its range of high-accuracy inertial navigation systems (INS) can be integrated with a...

Jan 22, 2021
AESA Maritime Radar to be Integrated on MQ-9B SeaGuardian UAS
AESA Maritime Radar to be Integrated on MQ-9B SeaGuardian UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is integrating Leonardo’s Seaspray 7500E V2 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar into the...

Jan 22, 2021
Drone & UGV Common Control System Joins Wave Relay Ecosystem
Drone & UGV Common Control System Joins Wave Relay Ecosystem

Tomahawk Robotics has joined the Wave Relay Ecosystem, an industry alliance of sensor and unmanned system companies that all utilize...

Jan 22, 2021
Steadicopter Partners with Simlat for UAS Simulation Training
Steadicopter Partners with Simlat for UAS Simulation Training

Steadicopter has partnered with UAS (unmanned aerial systems) simulation developer Simlat in order to provide a realistic training environment for...

Jan 21, 2021
Tethered Drones for Airport & Public Security
Tethered Drones for Airport & Public Security

Elistair has released the following article detailing a demonstration conducted in Malaysia that showed how the company’s tethered drone systems...

Jan 21, 2021
New S- and C-Band Omni-Directional Antennas Released
New S- and C-Band Omni-Directional Antennas Released

Southwest Antennas has expanded its line of dual-band antenna solutions with the addition of two new S and C-band omni-directional...

Jan 21, 2021
Lithium Batteries & Charging Solutions for Next-Generation Drones
Lithium Batteries & Charging Solutions for Next-Generation Drones

Epsilor Electric Fuel’s VP of Sales and Marketing, Felix Frisch, has authored the following article that outlines how reliable lithium...

Jan 21, 2021
Autonomous Minesweeper USVs Under Development for Royal Navy
Autonomous Minesweeper USVs Under Development for Royal Navy

Atlas Elektronik UK has been awarded a contract to build three autonomous Combined Influence Minesweeping systems, also known as SWEEP,...

Jan 21, 2021
Microdrones Selects New Distributor for Eastern Europe & Africa
Microdrones Selects New Distributor for Eastern Europe & Africa

Microdrones’ UAS (unmanned aerial system) solutions for mapping and surveying are now being offered to customers in Eastern Europe and...

Jan 21, 2021
Trimble Launches New High-Precision Smart GNSS Antennas
Trimble Launches New High-Precision Smart GNSS Antennas

Trimble has introduced a pair of new high-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) smart antennas that are suitable for a...

Jan 21, 2021
YellowScan’s LiDAR for Drone User Conference Announced
YellowScan’s LiDAR for Drone User Conference Announced

YellowScan will be hosting a hybrid LiDAR for Drone User Conference on June 9-11, 2021 in beautiful Domaine de Verchant,...

Jan 20, 2021
DARPA Investigates Simulation Technology for Off-Road UGVs
DARPA Investigates Simulation Technology for Off-Road UGVs

DARPA is soliciting proposals for promising new technologies to be investigated for its Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency...

Jan 20, 2021
GPS-Denied Navigation for BVLOS Drone Flights Under Development
GPS-Denied Navigation for BVLOS Drone Flights Under Development

Black Swift Technologies (BST) has been awarded a contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a...

Jan 20, 2021
Textron Systems Develops UAS Image Processing & Geospatial Data Analysis Software
Textron Systems Develops UAS Image Processing & Geospatial Data Analysis Software

Textron Systems, a leading developer of data analysis and image processing software for geospatial intelligence, has partnered with Unmanned Systems...

Jan 19, 2021
Infrared Targeting Pod Fitted to Avenger UAS
Infrared Targeting Pod Fitted to Avenger UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has performed a flight test during which its Avenger unmanned aerial system (UAS) was...

Jan 19, 2021
Autonomous Industrial Imaging and Mapping Drones Introduced
Autonomous Industrial Imaging and Mapping Drones Introduced

Skyfish has formally launched its new line of advanced autonomous work drone platforms, following an extended period of research and...

Jan 19, 2021
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