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Elistair Awarded Contract to Supply Tethered Drones for Greek Fire Service

Elistair has secured a contract to supply tethered drone systems for integration into Greece’s Mobile Operations Centers, enhancing disaster response capabilities

May 20, 2025
Drone Operations Enhanced with AI & Live Streaming

Eyeson and Parrot have partnered to deliver AI-powered live video collaboration for drones, enhancing real-time decision-making in defense and public safety operations

May 02, 2025
Deep Trekker ROV Trials for Autonomous Underwater Rescues

Avon Fire and Rescue Service is testing Deep Trekker’s REVOLUTION ROV to enhance underwater rescue operations, improving safety, efficiency, and response time in challenging environments

Apr 29, 2025
Partnership to Advance Automated Wildfire Suppression with Drone Swarm Technology

Strategic and FireSwarm are joining forces to deliver autonomous drone swarm technology for wildfire suppression, aiming to revolutionize emergency response across Canada

Apr 29, 2025
Partnership Formed to Enhance Wildfire Suppression

Rain's autonomous aerial wildfire suppression will integrate Trakka Systems' TrakkaCam® TC-300-R multispectral camera system into UH-60 helicopter operated by Brothers Air Support

Apr 14, 2025
Volatus Enhances Drone Operations with Canada-wide BVLOS Approval

Volatus Aerospace has secured approval for nighttime BVLOS drone operations across Canada, enabling critical missions like border surveillance, search and rescue, wildfire detection, and medical cargo delivery

Apr 02, 2025
Volatus Expands Medical Delivery Network with Long-Range Drone

Volatus Aerospace is expanding its medical delivery network by integrating RigiTech’s Eiger long-range delivery drone, allowing for extended reach across Canada and underserved regions

Mar 27, 2025
Testing Complete for Micrometeorology & Fire Response Drones

NASA's Alta X quadcopter has completed testing in Montana for applications in micrometeorology using two sensors, a radiosonde and a LI-COR LI-560 Trisonica anemometer

Mar 18, 2025
Warren Adds Expert in Sophisticated Unmanned Systems to Growing Team

Ed Celiano, former executive director of a UAS test site, is joining WarrenUAS as a consultant and instructor in the safe planning and operations of large UAS within the NAS

Mar 11, 2025
Volatus to Attend Washington DC Drone Demo Day

Volatus will showcase its solutions at Washington DC Drone Demo Day on March 14th, encompassing UAS, drone pilot training, services, custom solutions engineering, and more

Mar 05, 2025
Volatus Aerospace Enhances Border Protection with Autonomous Drone Solutions

Volatus Aerospace and Ondas Holdings are partnering to deploy the autonomous Optimus System, enhancing border surveillance, security, and critical infrastructure monitoring with advanced aerial and ground-based intelligence solutions

Mar 03, 2025
LiveU & gNext Enhance Drone-Captured Data Transfer

LiveU has partnered with gNext to improve remote data collection, enabling seamless transfer of drone-captured data to the gNext platform, regardless of network coverage

Jan 31, 2025
Compact Remote ID Receiver Released for Enhanced Drone Safety

Dronetag has introduced RIDER, a pocket-sized, drone-agnostic Remote ID receiver designed to improve airspace situational awareness and support commercial and public safety applications

Jan 30, 2025
New GCS Software Released for C100 Quadcopter

Performance Drone Works introduces PDW CORE, a comprehensive software bundle enhancing the C100 quadcopter's capabilities with a new UI, flight simulator, mission planner, ATAK integration, and fleet management tools

Jan 29, 2025
Revector Advances Covert Tech with Lightweight Four-Channel Unit

Revector’s new 4-Channel Portable Covert Unit 2.0 delivers cutting-edge performance, rugged design, and enhanced flexibility for covert operations, security, defense, and search-and-rescue missions

Jan 24, 2025
Vizgard Secures £1.5 Million Funding to Enhance AI in Defense and Public Safety

Vizgard secures £1.5 million to enhance AI-powered Defence and Public Safety systems, advancing its FortifAI platform for real-time threat detection, privacy-respecting risk analysis, and advanced automation

Jan 23, 2025
Chilean Police to Utilize Multi-Sensor Surveillance System

The Carabineros de Chile will mount Track Systems’ TrakkaCam TC-300 on Schiebel’s S-100 UAV to enhance situational awareness and respond effectively to C4ISR missions

Jan 20, 2025
Most Read Articles on UST This Week

Here’s our round-up of the five most read articles on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com this week

Jan 18, 2025
Flying Lion Achieves Major Milestone in DFR Programs

Flying Lion has reached a significant milestone in its Drone as First Responder (DFR) initiatives, completing 55,773 flights by the end of 2024 for enhanced community and first responder safety

Jan 15, 2025
High-Performance Multirotor Drone Launched for Precision Operations

CHCNAV has introduced the X500 Multirotor Drone, designed to offer precise obstacle detection, long flight times, and reliable operation for complex tasks such as infrastructure inspection and urban monitoring

Jan 08, 2025
Drone-Based Transport of Research Blood Tested

Research blood was flown between the cities of Urasoe and Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, intended to show potential future delivery method that could complement current means of transportation

Jan 08, 2025
Green UAS and Blue UAS Certifications for IF1200A and IF800 Tomcat Drones

Inspired Flight’s IF1200A and IF800 platforms are now dual-certified under AUVSI’s Green UAS and DIU’s Blue UAS frameworks, ensuring top-tier NDAA compliance and cybersecurity for diverse applications

Dec 24, 2024
Partners to Explore Drone Use for Emergency Services

Dufour Aerospace and Air Zermatt will analyze and test various scenarios for the use of drones in rescue operations, with the main focus on the Valais region

Dec 19, 2024
Schiebel UAS to Enhance Security Operations for Chilean Police

Carabineros de Chile, the Chilean national police force, has acquired and will deploy Schiebel's CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS in the difficult terrain of the Araucanía region

Dec 18, 2024
Most Read Articles on UST This Week

Here’s our round-up of the five most read articles on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com this week

Dec 06, 2024
Drone Project to Revolutionize Urban Safety & Emergency Response

The AERIAL research project aims to enhance urban safety and emergency response, developing real-time high data rate communication between drones and ground robots

Dec 03, 2024
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.