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.

Eaton Provides Hydraulic System Support for X-47B UAV
Eaton Provides Hydraulic System Support for X-47B UAV

Eaton Hydraulics Group Australasia is a key supplier to Northrop Grumman, the US Navy’s prime contractor for the Unmanned Combat...

Aug 16, 2012
U.S. Marines Evaluate Oshkosh TerraMax™ UGV Technology
U.S. Marines Evaluate Oshkosh TerraMax™ UGV Technology

Unmanned tactical wheeled vehicles that have the potential to serve as a force multiplier and reduce Warfighters’ exposure to lethal...

Aug 15, 2012
Boeing Delivers Smaller, Lighter Radio Relay for Small UAVs
Boeing Delivers Smaller, Lighter Radio Relay for Small UAVs

Boeing has delivered production units of a smaller, lighter version of its Tactical Compact Communications Relay (TCCR), which allows a...

Aug 15, 2012
C-ASTRAL BRAMOR gEO UAV Flies Mapping Mission at 4150m ASL
C-ASTRAL BRAMOR gEO UAV Flies Mapping Mission at 4150m ASL

C-ASTRAL Ltd has flown an 80 minute mapping mission at 4150m ASL with the BRAMOR gEO UAV in support of the mining...

Aug 14, 2012
OxTS Showcases New Lightweight GPS-Aided Inertial Navigation System at AUVSI
OxTS Showcases New Lightweight GPS-Aided Inertial Navigation System at AUVSI

OxTS has successfully launched the new GPS-aided inertial navigation system xNAV200 at this years’ AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America conference...

Aug 14, 2012
Insitu’s ScanEagle UAS Receives Limited Military Aircraft Type-Classification to Fly in Dutch Airspace
Insitu’s ScanEagle UAS Receives Limited Military Aircraft Type-Classification to Fly in Dutch Airspace

Insitu Inc. announced today that its Netherlands customer is now authorized to fly the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) under...

Aug 14, 2012
MicroPilot Launches XTENDERvalidate, a Design Life Cycle Management Tool for UAVs
MicroPilot Launches XTENDERvalidate, a Design Life Cycle Management Tool for UAVs

MicroPilot, leader in autopilot solutions for miniature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), released the world’s first available design life cycle tool...

Aug 09, 2012
ACP Composites Announce New 3 Ply Sandwich Composite Panels for Unmanned Systems
ACP Composites Announce New 3 Ply Sandwich Composite Panels for Unmanned Systems

  ACP Composites, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high quality, lightweight composite panels, has just announced the introduction of their...

Aug 09, 2012
LynuxWorks Showcases Industry Leading Operating System for UAVs
LynuxWorks Showcases Industry Leading Operating System for UAVs

LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, will demonstrate its LynxOS-178 v 2.2.2 safety-critical real-time operating system...

Aug 08, 2012
Raytheon Complete Test Flight of Pyros on Unmanned Aircraft
Raytheon Complete Test Flight of Pyros on Unmanned Aircraft

Raytheon Company completed a successful warhead and guidance system test of its Pyros™ small tactical munition. The end-to-end test validated...

Aug 08, 2012
Parvus Launches Rugged Mission Computer Subsystem for Unmanned Vehicle Applications
Parvus Launches Rugged Mission Computer Subsystem for Unmanned Vehicle Applications

Eurotech subsidiary, Parvus, announces the DuraCOR 80-40, a rugged Commercial-Off the Shelf (COTS) tactical mission computer subsystem based on the...

Aug 07, 2012
UTC Aerospace Systems Unveils High-Resolution Snapshot SWIR Camera at AUVSI 2012
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 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 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’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
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 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
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 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 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 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 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
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
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 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 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
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