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.

UTC Aerospace Systems Unveils High-Resolution Snapshot SWIR Camera at AUVSI 2012

UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., will introduce its next generation Sensors Unlimited shortwave infrared (SWIR) digital...

Aug 07, 2012
FreeWave Technologies Wireless Data Radios Log Over 1.3 Million Combat Hours on UAV Platforms

FreeWave Technologies, manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced that...

Aug 07, 2012
FreeWave Announces New Series of Long Range Wireless Radios for Unmanned Systems

FreeWave Technologies, manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, has announced the...

Aug 07, 2012
Insitu’s New Small Tactical UAS Completes Maiden Flight

Insitu Inc. has announced the first flight of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System...

Aug 07, 2012
NASA’s Unmanned Robot Curiosity Successfully Lands on Mars

Crane Aerospace & Electronics congratulates National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on the successful landing of Curiosity on the Gale...

Aug 07, 2012
Protonex Developing Fuel Cells for Underwater Unmanned Systems

Protonex Technology Corporation, a leading provider of advanced lightweight military power systems, announces exclusive collaboration on the development of oxygen...

Aug 07, 2012
Hirth Motors Unveils New UAV Engine Family at AUVSI 2012

Goebler-Hirthmotoren KG (Hirth Motors) is launching a new Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) engine family at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America...

Aug 07, 2012
Air Robotics Launches New Rugged Small UAS

Air Robotics has introduced the Im IV-D™ (Four Delta™), a hand-tossed, small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) capable of carrying a...

Aug 07, 2012
Harris Corporation Unveils New Unmanned Robotic System to Remotely Disarm Improvised Explosive Devices At AUVSI 2012

  Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, will demonstrate its new RedHawk™ system used for remotely disarming...

Aug 06, 2012
Integrated Microwave Technologies and Leptron form Technology Partnership

Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC, a Business Unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, and a leader in advanced digital microwave...

Aug 06, 2012
Lockheed Martin Procerus Technologies Announces New Small Vertical Take-off And Landing UAS

Lockheed Martin Procerus Technologies‘ new small vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system gives warfighters, first responders and others...

Aug 06, 2012
Air Force Selects MLB V-Bat VTOL UAV for Phase II SBIR award

The Air Force has announced that the MLB V-Bat VTOL UAV has been selected for a Phase II SBIR award....

Aug 06, 2012
Shadow® Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Completes 750,000 Flight Hours

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, has announced that its Shadow Tactical...

Aug 06, 2012
Textron Systems Advanced Systems USV Completes Naval Mine Countermeasure Experiment

Textron Systems Advanced Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, has announced that its Fleet-class Common...

Aug 06, 2012
MLB UAV Complete High Resolution Assessment of Seagrass and Coral Reef Biomes

  MLB Company, a leader in low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions, services and products, has announced it has concluded...

Aug 06, 2012
Composiflex Introduces RAPIFLEX to Provide Composite Prototypes in Short Lead Times

Composiflex, a global supplier of highly-engineered composite products, has introduced the RAPIFLEX prototype program which enables delivery of real advanced...

Aug 06, 2012
OxTS Launches Lightweight GPS-aided Inertial Navigation System

  OxTS will launch its smallest and lightest inertial navigation system at this years’ AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America conference in...

Aug 06, 2012
Elbit Systems Wins Multi-Million Dollar Contract to Supply Hermes UAS

Elbit Systems Ltd. has announced that it was awarded a contract valued at many tens of millions of dollars, to...

Aug 06, 2012
Ulti-Mate Connector, Inc. Launches Innovative Range of Nano Connectors

Ulti-Mate Connector, Inc. has released a complete line of .025 pitch “Nano” connectors designed and manufactured in accordance with MIL-DTL-32139....

Aug 05, 2012
Protonex Launches Commercial UAV-H500 Fuel Cell Power System for Unmanned Vehicles

Protonex Technology Corporation, a leading provider of advanced lightweight military power systems, announces the commercial availability of the UAV-H500 fuel...

Aug 03, 2012
ScanEagle Full Mission Training Simulator on Display at AUVSI 2012

Corsair Engineering Inc.’s Full Mission Training SimulatorCorsair Engineering Inc. will have its Full Mission Training Simulator developed for Insitu’s ScanEagle...

Aug 02, 2012
Bluefin Robotics Hull Inspection Robot Successfully Completes Government Testing

Bluefin Robotics, a leading provider of Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) solutions for US Navy Programs of Record announced today that...

Aug 02, 2012
D-STAR Engineering Corp to Develop Ultra-quiet UAV Propulsion System

U.S. intelligence officials are taking the first step toward developing ultra-quiet unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for sensitive surveillance applications in...

Aug 02, 2012
DRS Signal Solutions Unveils Next Generation High Performance Software Defined Radio

DRS Technologies, Inc, a Finmeccanica Company, announced that its DRS Signal Solutions business unit has unveiled the Picoflexor, a next...

Aug 02, 2012
Analytic Systems Develops Power Products for Unmanned Aerial Systems

Analytic Systems has recently supplied products to a number of companies that design and manufacture unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The...

Aug 02, 2012
Xsens Launches New MEMS Motion Trackers for Unmanned Systems

Xsens, the leading innovator in 3D motion tracking technology and products, has launched a new MTi® product portfolio for industrial...

Aug 02, 2012
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