UAV / Drone News

The latest UAS / UAV news for Autonomous and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Articles on commercial UAV, tactical drones and unmanned aerial systems, product launches and technological advances in UAV design and manufacture

uAvionix to Deploy UAS C2 Platform at Flight Test Site

uAvionix and the New Mexico State University Physical Science Laboratory (NMSU PSL) have entered into a partnership to deploy uAvionix’s...

Apr 28, 2021
Open-Source Ecosystems for Drone Inspection

The following article is based on a blog post from Auterion, developers of a drone software platform designed to enable...

Apr 28, 2021
MissionGO Achieves FAA Milestone for UAS Cargo Delivery

The FAA certification office has approved MissionGO’s MG Velos 100 airworthiness criteria as part of MissionGO’s Type Certificate application, a...

Apr 28, 2021
Robotic Skies Receives Investment from Drone Fund

Robotic Skies has received an investment from Japan-based partnership Drone Fund to support continued growth and development for its network...

Apr 28, 2021
WAMI Sensor Tested on RQ-21A Blackjack UAS

Logos Technologies has successfully flown its wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor aboard an RQ-21A Blackjack UAS (unmanned aerial system) at...

Apr 26, 2021
Situational Awareness for BVLOS Drone Flight

Sagetech Avionics has recently presented a webinar on the up-and-coming requirements for situational awareness that will enable BVLOS (beyond visual...

Apr 26, 2021
Electronic Support System Added to MQ-9 UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has collaborated with the U.S. Air Force and L3Harris Technologies to further expand the...

Apr 24, 2021
Selecting a UAS Fleet Management Solution

  AlarisPro, a developer of state-of-the-art professional UAS (unmanned aerial systems) operations software, has released the following article outlining the...

Apr 23, 2021
Hybrid VTOL Drone Begins Manufacture in North America

FIXAR has confirmed that its new hybrid VTOL UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) will be manufactured in North America by drone...

Apr 23, 2021
Pneumatic Drone Catapults Upgraded

Edge Autonomy has released upgraded versions of the company’s portable pneumatic catapult systems for UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). The catapults...

Apr 22, 2021
CAMCOPTER UAS Provides Maritime Surveillance in Baltic Sea

Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS (unmanned aerial system) is being used by the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) for...

Apr 22, 2021
Ice Protection Developed for Drone Propellers

Mejzlik Propellers has entered into an agreement with UBIQ Aerospace to develop an ice protection solution for UAV (unmanned aerial...

Apr 22, 2021
ZIYAN UAS Discuss Industrial Drone Applications

Electric UAV manufacturer Ziyan UAS has developed proprietary industrial drone platforms for use within energy, public safety, maritime rescue, mapping...

Apr 22, 2021
Drone Delivery Platform Incorporates Airspace Awareness Technology

Flirtey has confirmed that it has incorporated Kongsberg Geospatial‘s IRIS airspace situational awareness application into the autonomous software platform that...

Apr 22, 2021
Commercial Heavy-Lift Unmanned Helicopter Tested

Kaman Air Vehicles has performed a successful first flight with the company’s new unmanned helicopter, the K-MAX TITAN. According to...

Apr 22, 2021
eBook: BVLOS Across the Drone Industry

Elsight has released a new ebook designed to inform companies looking to scale their drone operations from limited line-of-sight (LOS)...

Apr 21, 2021
ViDAR for Search and Rescue

Designed by Sentient Vision Systems located in Melbourne, Australia, ViDAR combines Optical Radar, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision and Deep...

Apr 21, 2021
New 360-Degree Drone Detect-and-Avoid Solution Launched

Iris Automation has announced the availability of its new onboard multi-camera detect and avoid (DAA) solution for commercial unmanned aerial...

Apr 21, 2021
Key Considerations when using Drones for Magnetic Surveys

Drone magnetic surveys offer a safe and reliable way of acquiring geophysical data even in the most inaccessible terrain. Drone...

Apr 20, 2021
Initial Testing Performed with Autonomous Solar-Powered UAS

Skydweller Aero has performed a successful flight demonstration of the initial aircraft control, actuation, and sensor technology systems of the...

Apr 19, 2021
Japan’s Global Hawk UAS Completes First Flight

Northrop Grumman has successfully completed the first flight of Japan’s RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) from Palmdale, California....

Apr 19, 2021
Microdrones Showcase the Drone Surveyors of Tomorrow at MVCC

The drone surveyors of tomorrow are students today – and there’s a lot to learn from the Remotely Piloted Aircraft...

Apr 19, 2021
New Hybrid VTOL Drone Features Fixed Angled Rotor Design

Drone manufacturer Fixar has created a new industrial hybrid VTOL UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) designed to provide multi-mission capabilities for...

Apr 19, 2021
DJI Launches New Portable Camera Drone

  DJI has launched the Air 2S, a new portable camera drone that captures 20-megapixel still images and video in...

Apr 16, 2021
uAvionix Supports UTM Trials in Canada

uAvionix has signed an agreement to support unmanned traffic management (UTM) trials in Alberta, Canada that are being led by...

Apr 16, 2021
Puma 3 AE UAS Selected for NATO Defense Forces

AeroVironment has received four orders from the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) for the company’s Puma 3 AE tactical...

Apr 14, 2021
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.