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

Fixed Wing UAS Completes Navy’s 1st Test Flight with ARS

Boeing’s MQ-25 T1 test asset for The U.S. Navy has flown for the first time with an aerial refueling store...

Dec 14, 2020
French Navy Installs Additional Four Schiebel Unmanned Helicopters

Naval Group, on behalf of the French Navy, has accepted a further two CAMCOPTER® S-100 unmanned helicopters for operational use....

Dec 14, 2020
Static Testing on MQ-9B SkyGuardian UAS Wing Structure Completed

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed three months of Full Scale Static (FSS) testing on the wing structure...

Dec 09, 2020
Simultaneous Long Distance Delivery Performed with Two Drones

Pablo Air has performed simultaneous delivery of medical supplies with two drones from Incheon New Port in mainland Korea to...

Dec 09, 2020
High-Precision Autonomous Landing System For UAVs Developed

UAVLAS has developed an ultra-high precision autonomous landing system for UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), designed to solve the bottlenecks in...

Dec 09, 2020
DARPA CODE Autonomy Engine Demonstrated on Avenger UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has demonstrated the DARPA-developed Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) autonomy engine on the...

Dec 08, 2020
Airbus Solar HAPS UAV Completes Test Flight Campaign

Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed a new test flight campaign with its Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)...

Dec 08, 2020
SOARIZON Updates Intelligent Drone Mission Map Functionality

SOARIZON has launched the biggest ever upgrade to its intelligent drone mission mapping functionality, allowing users to plan missions on...

Dec 07, 2020
Microdrones Releases Drone Surveying Equipment & Technology Journal

Microdrones has made the second digital edition of the company’s 2020 Field Tested Field Proven journal available to download for...

Dec 07, 2020
Latest Configuration of Shadow Tactical UAS Ordered by US Army

The U.S. Army has ordered 36 of the new Block III configuration of Textron Systems’ Shadow tactical unmanned aerial systems...

Dec 05, 2020
Autonomous Satellite-Launching UAV Unveiled

Aevum, Inc. has unveiled its new Ravn X Autonomous Launch Vehicle, which the company claims is the world’s largest Unmanned...

Dec 04, 2020
Drone Remote Identification Service Launched in Switzerland

ANRA Technologies, in conjunction with the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) and Swiss U-Space Implementation (SUSI), has launched...

Dec 04, 2020
New Versions of Auterion Enterprise PX4 & Mission Control Released

Auterion has released new versions of its Auterion Enterprise PX4 drone operating system and control software and Auterion Mission Control...

Dec 03, 2020
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
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