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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.

Phoenix Purchases Bluefin-21 AUV to Expand Service Offering

Bluefin Robotics, the leading provider of free-flooded, modular Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related technologies announced today that the company...

Jun 01, 2012
JAXA Aims to Set Unmanned Balloon Altitude Record

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will attempt to send an unmanned scientific balloon to a world-record-breaking altitude of around 55...

Jun 01, 2012
World Surveillance Group Successfully Completes Payload Testing of Argus One UAV

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, announced today that the Company...

May 31, 2012
Hood Technology UAV Imaging Systems to be Used by Iraqi Navy

The UAV imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the...

May 31, 2012
Raytheon Unveils Prototype ISR System to Canadian Army

Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, recently unveiled its Light Armoured Vehicle Reconnaissance Surveillance System...

May 31, 2012
Northrop Grumman & L-3 MAS Join Forces on Unmanned System for Canadian Security

Northrop Grumman Corporation and L-3 MAS announced plans today to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global...

May 31, 2012
New Piezoelectric Accelerometer Technologies for UAV Ground Vibration Testing

Kistler has announced availability of its piezoelectric accelerometer technologies for cost-effective, high-accuracy support of aircraft, helicopter, rotorcraft, missile, satellite and...

May 29, 2012
Cargo Hookup Completed with K-MAX Unmanned Cargo Helicopter

Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2, the “Night Owls,” made history earlier this week when they completed the first “hot...

May 29, 2012
NexTech Awarded ONR Contract to Develop UUV Energy System

NexTech Materials, Ltd. has received a contract from the Office of Naval Research for a Future Naval Capability (FNC) project...

May 29, 2012
Engineers Develop Cheap Onboard Tracking System For UAVs

The popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs has exploded in just a few years. That’s the result of smaller,...

May 29, 2012
NATO Forces Procure Global Hawk Block 40 UAV

Global Hawk Block 40(RQ-4) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has been procured along with four small vehicles by...

May 29, 2012
Drone Lobbying Ramps up Among Industry Manufacturers

By Andrea Stone, Huffington Post It may be years before unmanned aircraft are common in the sky, but lobbyists for the...

May 28, 2012
FCC Explores Emergency Aerial Communications Using UAVs

The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to explore the use of Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture...

May 27, 2012
Bluefin AUVs to be compatible with SeeByte SeeTrack through new plug-in

Bluefin Robotics, the leading provider of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) solutions for US Navy Programs of Record and SeeByte, the...

May 25, 2012
AeroVironment to Deploy Small UAS for Federal Communications Commission Post-Disaster Communications Demonstration

AeroVironment today announced it will employ its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to demonstrate aerial communications capabilities for the Federal...

May 24, 2012
Orbital to supply FlexDI engines for use in AAI UAS

Orbital is pleased to announce that it has been contracted to supply heavy fuel engines for use in AAI Unmanned...

May 24, 2012
ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System Exceeds 600,000 Flight Hours

Insitu announced today that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system has exceeded 600,000 combat flight hours, maintaining a 99 percent mission-readiness...

May 24, 2012
Deployment of Lockheed Martin Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) UGV May Be Extended

The original three-month Afghan tour of four Lockheed Martin Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) unmanned ground vehicles might be extended...

May 24, 2012
UAV Imaging System Produces 3D Models of Historical Monuments

University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained...

May 24, 2012
RASF Introduces IAI Heron 1 UAV

Singapore’s Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen officiated at a ceremony to inaugurate the Heron 1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...

May 24, 2012
Commercial UAV Launched by BlueSky for Aerial Surveys

Aerial survey company Bluesky has launched a fast response aerial survey service using state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles...

May 24, 2012
Aerospherical Systems Announces New Spherical Aircraft

Aerospherical Systems has announced an aircraft design which is a perfect sphere. The flying orb is called an Aerosphere™. Until...

May 23, 2012
AeroVironment Wins $5.1m Order for Switchblade UAS

AeroVironment, Inc. announced it received a contract modification effective March 20, 2012 from the U.S. Army Close Combat Weapons Systems...

May 23, 2012
Zala Aero unveils UAV upgrade

Zala Aero has launched the latest version of its Zala 421-16 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a focus on civil...

May 23, 2012
SPI Corp Unveils Next Generation Multisensor Thermal PTZ Gimbal

SPI Corp is a long time distributor and manufacturer of thermal imager systems in the United States. They specialize in...

May 23, 2012
AeroVironment Wins $2.5M U.S Airforce Contract to Supply Digital Wasp AE Small Unmanned Aircraft System

AeroVironment today introduced the Wasp AE™ small unmanned aircraft system and announced that it has been accepted by the U.S....

May 23, 2012
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