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

Boeing Completes Autonomous Teaming Test Flights

Boeing has completed a series of flight tests with five autonomously-operating high-performance surrogate jets using artificial intelligence to work together...

Dec 03, 2020
T-DRONES Develops Multirotor UAVs and Drone Propulsion Systems

T-DRONES, a leading developer of compact, reliable quadcopter and hexacopter UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), as well as propulsion systems and...

Dec 02, 2020
Sky Power Expands Range of UAV Engine Starter Generators

Sky Power has expanded its range of starter generators for UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) engines with the launch of the...

Dec 02, 2020
Gremsy Introduces Integration Kit for Phase One iXM Cameras & M600 Drones

Gremsy has launched a new integration kit that enables plug-and-play connectivity between Phase One’s iXM series of professional high-resolution UAV...

Dec 02, 2020
Inspired Flight Selects European Distributor for Heavy-Lift Drones

Inspired Flight has partnered with commercial robotics and drone technology provider Level Five Supplies as the company expands into the...

Dec 02, 2020
WingtraOne Drone Deployed for Wildfire Damage Assessment

Wingtra’s WingtraOne VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) mapping UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) has been deployed by the Lafayette City Police...

Dec 01, 2020
Drone Delivery Trials for COVID-19 Test Kits

Flirtey has partnered with medical services provider Vault Health to test drone delivery of the first FDA-authorized saliva test for...

Dec 01, 2020
Indago 3 UAV to be Provided to the Norwegian Armed Forces

Nordic Unmanned has been awarded a contract by the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency to provide Lockheed Martin’s Indago 3 UAS...

Nov 29, 2020
US Air Force Selects New Radar-Based Counter-Drone System

The United States Air Force (USAF) has acquired a CUAS (counter-unmanned aerial systems) radar system from Black Sage that will...

Nov 28, 2020
Helikite Tactical Aerostat Provided to Defense Program

Carolina Unmanned Vehicles (CUV) has delivered two of the company’s 45 cubic meter Allsopp Helikite tactical unmanned aerostats to support...

Nov 26, 2020
Topcon Partners with Hybrid Mapping Drone Manufacturer

Topcon has entered into partnership with Atmos UAV, a Dutch manufacturer of hybrid VTOL/fixed-wing drones for mapping and surveying. Topcon’s...

Nov 26, 2020
Ziyan Develops High-Performance Electric Unmanned Helicopters & Avionics

Ziyan UAS, a leading manufacturer of electric unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for civilian, industrial and defense applications, has partnered with...

Nov 26, 2020
AI-Powered Sensing Technology to be Developed for MQ-9 UAS

  General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial...

Nov 25, 2020
C-Astral Receives Investment from Global Industrial Drone Provider

C-Astral Aerospace has received an investment from global industrial drone solutions provider Terra Drone Corporation, based in Japan. The partnership...

Nov 25, 2020
CONTROP Launches New Ground-Based C-UAS Surveillance System

CONTROP Precision Technologies has launched the SPEED-LR, the company’s newest long-range ground observation system for counter-UAS (unmanned aerial system) and...

Nov 25, 2020
Long-Range Delivery Drone Successfully Tested

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has successfully performed a series of tests with its Robin XL unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The...

Nov 25, 2020
Real-Time LTE Urban Drone Monitoring System Under Development

Kongsberg Geospatial has partnered with Unifly to develop a real-time UAS (unmanned aerial system) identification and tracking system that integrates...

Nov 24, 2020
Key Trends for Drones in the Agricultural Sector

SOARIZON has released the following article that outlines key trends for UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) usage in agriculture. SOARIZON is...

Nov 24, 2020
Microdrones Partners with UK Drone Retailer & Training Provider

Microdrones has selected UK-based Drone Pilot Academy as an authorized distributor of drone surveying equipment throughout the United Kingdom and...

Nov 23, 2020
UAV and Canine Search and Rescue Demonstrated

Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) has conducted research for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O)...

Nov 22, 2020
BVLOS Drone Pipeline Monitoring Solution Under Development

Thales is working with French gas operator Teréga to develop a gas pipeline monitoring solution based on BVLOS (beyond visual...

Nov 22, 2020
Elios 2 Inspection Drone Deployed at Chernobyl

Flyability’s Elios 2 inspection drone has been used to conduct a mission at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in order...

Nov 21, 2020
DJI Unveils New Agricultural Spraying Drone

DJI has unveiled the Agras T20, a high-performance and intelligent precision agriculture drone designed for spraying applications. The autonomous UAV...

Nov 21, 2020
uAvionix to Provide C2 Infrastructure and Service for BVLOS UAS Network

uAvionix has confirmed that it is providing terrestrial command and control (C2) infrastructure as well as a cloud-based C2 service...

Nov 20, 2020
Preliminary Design Review Completed for Statewide BVLOS Drone Network

Thales has successfully completed the preliminary design review for the key site implementation of a statewide unmanned aerial systems (UAS)...

Nov 19, 2020
First Drone Delivery to a Submarine Performed

Skyfront’s long-endurance hybrid-electric Perimeter UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) has been used to perform the first ever ship-to-submarine delivery with a...

Nov 19, 2020
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