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.

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
Autonomous Fish Shoal Can Sense Pollution

There is something unnatural lurking in the waters of the port of Gijon, Spain, and researchers are tracking its every...

May 23, 2012
Drone Program Aims To ‘Accelerate’ Use Of Unmanned Aircraft By Police

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to “facilitate and accelerate the adoption” of small, unmanned drones by...

May 22, 2012
FreeWave Technologies To Showcase UAV Wireless Data Radios

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

May 22, 2012
Low Cost UAV AutoPilot Launched

3D Robotics has released its AdruPilot Mega 2.0 AutoPilot. Seen at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, the APM2 is...

May 22, 2012
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Market to Reach $7.26bn in 2012

Visiongain’s analysis finds that the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) market will reach a value of $7.26bn in 2012, as UAVs...

May 22, 2012
Unmanned Aircraft with Vertical Takeoff “Flexrotor” Tested

The United States is testing a new unmanned aircraft (UAV) with vertical takeoff and landing “Flexrotor” whose development is commissioned...

May 22, 2012
ITT Exelis Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract to Protect UAV Data

ITT Exelis has been awarded an Air Force Cryptologic Systems Division contract to deliver prototype self-encrypting drives. These secure solid...

May 22, 2012
Australian DSTO is First to Acquire New MicroROV Navigation Technology

VideoRay and its partners announced today that they have shipped the first implementation of VideoRay CoPilot by SeeByte software, on...

May 22, 2012
Elbit Systems wins $160m UAS contract

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded an approximately $160 million contract by a European customer, to supply...

May 22, 2012
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