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.

VectorNav Technologies Launches VN-100 Rugged Surface Mount Orientation Sensor

VectorNav Technologies, LLC, a leading provider of embedded navigation solutions, announced today the release of the VN-100 Rugged, an aluminum...

Jan 25, 2012
Cobham Introduces Antennas for Manned and Robotic Ground Vehicle Data Link Applications

Cobham Antenna Systems has introduced a new range of Omni antennas, which have been designed for Manned and Robotic Ground...

Jan 16, 2012
Boca Bearing Company Launches Global Innovation Contest

The Boca Bearing Company, one of the most trusted names in ceramic bearing and lubrication technology, today announced that it...

Jan 12, 2012
COBALT 190 multi-spectral imaging sensor demonstrated on ARCTURUS UAV Test Flight

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today the successful integration of the COBALTâ„¢190 multi-spectral imaging sensor with ARCTURUS UAV T-20, and L-3...

Aug 17, 2011
Insitu Introduces Inceptor Small Unmanned Aircraft System

Insitu Inc. announced today that it has introduced the Inceptor small unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which will provide the public...

Aug 04, 2011
Roke Launches Market’s Most Advanced UAV Moving Target Indicator System

Roke Manor Research today launches VTA (Visual Target Analysis), the first moving target indicator system which immediately tracks and maps...

Aug 02, 2011
‘Sales in the Global UAV Flight Training and Simulation Market will be Worth $375m in 2011’ says New visiongain Defence Industry Report

The UAV Flight Training & Simulation Market 2011-2021 report from Visiongain offers a comprehensive analysis of the global market for...

Aug 01, 2011
Goodrich To Distribute Improved UAV Engine Fuel Injection System

Goodrich signed an agreement to distribute an electronic fuel injection system developed by Australian firm Currawong Engineering. Currawong’s Small Engine...

Aug 01, 2011
Raytheon Develops Miniature Antenna for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has developed a miniaturized interrogation antenna capability to extend use of its Cooperative Target ID technology...

Jul 29, 2011
Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System Completes First Full System Flight With MP-RTIP Sensor

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s RQ-4B Block 40 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) completed its first full system flight with the...

Jul 26, 2011
ASV awarded contract by UK MOD

ASV Ltd. has recently been awarded a contract by the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)...

Jul 05, 2011
FLIR Systems’ Star SAFIRE® 380-HD successfully tested on Northrop Grumman Firebird

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that the Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared sensor completed successful flight operations on the Northrop Grumman...

Jun 16, 2011
NASA Global Hawk Takes the Earth’s Temperature Over the Pacific Ocean

A Northrop Grumman produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on...

Mar 22, 2011
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Flights Completed

Less than a month after completing the first flight of the U.S. Navy’s X-47B UCAS-Demonstration aircraft, flight test engineers from...

Mar 18, 2011
Muscular Ten Pack Powers New ROV into Top Spot

Packed with ten powerful thrusters and with the capacity to carry a seven-function position feedback manipulator and five-function rate manipulator,...

Mar 17, 2011
Northrop Grumman Completes Structural Proof Testing of Second X-47B Aircraft

The U.S. Navy’s second X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) will be able to withstand all of the structural stresses...

Mar 15, 2011
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation Sign MOU to develop UAS proposal

BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate exclusively on the preparation and submission...

Mar 15, 2011
Aerosonde(R) Unmanned Aircraft System to Support U.S. Air Force Academy Mission

HUNT VALLEY, Md., Mar 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a...

Mar 11, 2011
AAI Shadow(R) UAS Successfully Demonstrates Sense and Avoidance System

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that it...

Mar 11, 2011
KONGSBERG eBird seismic streamer control system nominated for prestigous design award

Unique ‘diving bird’ technology highlighted for design innovation. Kongsberg Seatex’s unique ‘eBird’ Seismic Streamer Control System has been nominated for...

Mar 11, 2011
2nd Boeing-built Orbital Test Vehicle X-37B begins flight

Boeing has announced the successful launch of the second Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force...

Mar 10, 2011
Landmark Flight Brings Program One Step Closer to Demonstrating Autonomous Aerial Refueling Between Two Unmanned Aircraft

On Jan. 21, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center took a...

Mar 10, 2011
UAV Production Started in Azerbaijan

Azad System Co, a production branch of Defense Industry Ministry in Azerbaijan recently opened by President Ilham Aliyev, has started...

Mar 09, 2011
FLIR Systems’ Star SAFIRE 380-HD selected for GA-ASI Predator XP

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that the Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor has been selected by General Atomics Aeronautical...

Feb 22, 2011
Moog System Maneuvers Aircraft Primary Flight Surfaces During First Flight of X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System

Moog Inc. has announced that the Company supplied the flight control system that maneuvered flight surfaces on Northrop Grumman’s X-47B...

Feb 09, 2011
New PinPoint Gyros Released

A new class of small precision MEMS navigation and pointing gyros from Silicon Sensing – PinPoint® – is now available...

Aug 11, 2010