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

UK’s Dstl Trials Drone Swarm Technology

The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has recently completed an exercise with a swarm of 20 drones in...

Feb 03, 2021
C-ASTRAL Provides C4ISR Capabilities for VTOL Cargo UAV

C-ASTRAL Aerospace has been selected to provide C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) capabilities for the upgraded...

Feb 03, 2021
Maritime Surveillance Systems Tested on SeaGuardian UAS

Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s maritime surveillance technologies have been successfully flight tested on board a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc....

Feb 02, 2021
Counter-UAS Platform Offers Compliance with US & EU Remote ID Standards

Counter-drone technology platform Dedrone has become the first to provide users with compliance with both U.S. and E.U. government-provided remote...

Feb 02, 2021
CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS Selected by Nordic Unmanned

Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been selected by drone services provider Nordic Unmanned as its system of...

Feb 02, 2021
New IFF Solutions Provide Enhanced Situational Awareness for UAVs

uAvionix has launched a full lineup of Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) solutions for small, tactical, and attritable unmanned aerial...

Feb 01, 2021
Dronecloud to Develop Drone Management Software for Railway Inspection

Dronecloud has entered into an agreement to provide management software for the fleet of drones operated by Network Rail, the...

Feb 01, 2021
Miniature LiDAR Sensor Selected for Autonomous Scanning System

Velodyne Lidar has entered into an agreement to provide its Puck LITE LiDAR sensors to Emesent, developers of the Hovermap...

Jan 30, 2021
MANET Radio & EO/IR Gimbal Integrated onto Tethered sUAS

Zenith AeroTech has successfully integrated an advanced flight radar, gimbaled EO/IR camera, and mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) radio onto...

Jan 30, 2021
UK’s First Medical Drone Delivery Network to be Developed

A consortium of 13 organisations, led by AGS Airports, has been formed to develop and trial the UK’s first national...

Jan 30, 2021
Drone Delivery Service Launched on Guam

Valqari’s Drone Delivery Station technology is being deployed as part of a new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-based delivery service launching...

Jan 30, 2021
Scopito Wins Infrastructure Maintenance Inspection Platform Award

Drone inspection data management solution Scopito has been awarded Best Infrastructure Maintenance Inspection Platform 2020 at the Corporate Vision Small...

Jan 29, 2021
Self-Protection System Successfully Demonstrated on MQ-9 UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has successfully completed flight testing of a Self-Protection Pod (SPP) for its MQ-9 unmanned...

Jan 28, 2021
Aerospace & Defense Equity Firm Acquires UAV Factory

UAV Factory has been acquired by AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense and government...

Jan 28, 2021
AI-Powered Drone Cybersecurity System Created

Industrial artificial intelligence (AI) developer SparkCognition has created a new AI-powered cybersecurity solution designed to protect drones from zero-day attacks...

Jan 27, 2021
Sky Power Opens Online Store for UAV Engines

Sky Power’s complete UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) engine product portfolio has been made available for purchase via a new online...

Jan 27, 2021
BVLOS Missile Target Designation Performed by Drone

MBDA has successfully performed the first demonstration of its LynkEUs Dismounted system, which pairs an MMP anti-tank missile system in...

Jan 25, 2021
Flock Provides EASA-Compliant Commercial Drone Insurance

Flock has partnered with leading aviation underwriter Sompo International, allowing drone pilots and operators across Europe to access EASA-compliant commercial...

Jan 25, 2021
Forest Fire Monitoring with Drones and Wind Sensors

FT Technologies’ FT205 wind sensor has been used in conjunction with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to predict the progress...

Jan 25, 2021
Enhancing Safety & Efficiency for the Utilities Industry with Drones

SOARIZON has released the following article that outlines how power and utilities industries such as oil and gas, wind farms...

Jan 25, 2021
DARPA Gremlins UAS & Recovery System Completes Third Test

Dynetics has successfully completed a third test flight series with its prototype unmanned aerial system (UAS) and retrieval mechanism for...

Jan 22, 2021
AESA Maritime Radar to be Integrated on MQ-9B SeaGuardian UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is integrating Leonardo’s Seaspray 7500E V2 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar into the...

Jan 22, 2021
Drone & UGV Common Control System Joins Wave Relay Ecosystem

Tomahawk Robotics has joined the Wave Relay Ecosystem, an industry alliance of sensor and unmanned system companies that all utilize...

Jan 22, 2021
Steadicopter Partners with Simlat for UAS Simulation Training

Steadicopter has partnered with UAS (unmanned aerial systems) simulation developer Simlat in order to provide a realistic training environment for...

Jan 21, 2021
Tethered Drones for Airport & Public Security

Elistair has released the following article detailing a demonstration conducted in Malaysia that showed how the company’s tethered drone systems...

Jan 21, 2021
Microdrones Selects New Distributor for Eastern Europe & Africa

Microdrones’ UAS (unmanned aerial system) solutions for mapping and surveying are now being offered to customers in Eastern Europe and...

Jan 21, 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.