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

Aerial Sensing of Radiation

The SwissDrones team has participated in the annual aeroradiometric surveys by the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) in Switzerland. The...

Jun 26, 2020
First Training & Test Flight Conducted with NATO RQ-4D Phoenix UAS

Northrop Grumman Corporation has supported the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF) in conducting the first training and test flight...

Jun 25, 2020
First Commercially Available 5G Drone Enters Production

Plymouth Rock Technologies’ (PRT) X1 multirotor UAS (unmanned aerial system) will soon begin initial production with integrated 5G command and...

Jun 24, 2020
Samsung Develops Drone-Based 5G Antenna Configuration System

Samsung has developed a new automated drone-based antenna configuration measurement solution for 4G and 5G networks, which provides a simplified...

Jun 24, 2020
First Authorisation for Drone-Based Aircraft Inspection Granted in Singapore

ST Engineering has received authorisation from the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) to use its in-house developed DroScan drone...

Jun 24, 2020
Drone Delivery Canada Expands Operations

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has entered into an agreement with DSV Air & Sea Inc. Canada, the Canadian division of...

Jun 23, 2020
US Air National Guard Upgrades UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has been awarded a contract to upgrade unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for the United...

Jun 23, 2020
Drone-in-a-Box Technology Covered by Specialist Unmanned Aviation Insurance

HEROTECH8 has partnered with specialist drone insurance provider Flock to cover the company’s drone-in-a-box technology, allowing the system to be...

Jun 23, 2020
Mobile Drone Detection System Under Development for US Air Force

AeroDefense has partnered with the United States Air Force (USAF) to develop a rugged, rapidly deployable mobile drone detection system that...

Jun 21, 2020
Black Swift Technologies Develops UAS for Scientific Research & Data Collection

Black Swift Technologies, a leading developer of specialized state-of-the-art unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for flying scientific payloads, has partnered with...

Jun 20, 2020
Triad Power Amplifier Boosts Comms Link for HAPS UAV

Triad RF Systems has provided a power amplifier to a developer of stratospheric communications platforms in order to boost the...

Jun 20, 2020
Iris Automation Launches BVLOS Drone Waiver Resource Center

Iris Automation has launched a new Waiver Resource Center (WRC) for UAS (unmanned aerial system) pilots that provides tools and...

Jun 20, 2020
Data Analysis for UAS Wind Turbine Inspections

Scopito’s AI-powered drone data analysis software has been featured in an article in PES (Power & Energy Solutions) Wind Magazine....

Jun 19, 2020
World’s Smallest UAV SATCOM Technology Announced

Honeywell has launched a new miniature lightweight satellite communications (SATCOM) system for UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) that it claims is...

Jun 18, 2020
Pix4D Unveils New Cloud Processing Solutions for Drone Photogrammetry

  Pix4D has released new standalone cloud processing solutions providing drone surveying workflows and construction site monitoring capabilities, Pix4Dcloud and...

Jun 17, 2020
Australian DoD Acquires Additional Triton UAS

The Australian Government’s Department of Defence has acquired an additional Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), bringing...

Jun 17, 2020
5G Network Trials for UAS to be Conducted in Singapore

Airbus has partnered with communications company M1, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Maritime and Port Authority of...

Jun 16, 2020
Advanced MN-MIMO Radios Integrated into ISR Drones

Auterion GS and Quantum-Systems have formed a partnership with Silvus Technologies to integrate Silvus’ advanced MN-MIMO (Mobile Networked Multiple Input...

Jun 16, 2020
Smart Parachute System Developed for DJI M210 Drones

Drone Rescue Systems has developed a new smart parachute rescue system for use with DJI M210 series drones. The new...

Jun 14, 2020
Measuring Microclimate Surface Layer Physics from a Tethered Balloon

Anemoment, a developer of compact ultrasonic anemometers for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other platforms, has released the following article...

Jun 13, 2020
Smart Radios Installed in Tree-Planting Drone Fleet

Doodle Labs’ Smart Radio Pro has been used to provide the communications architecture for a fleet of proprietary drones developed...

Jun 12, 2020
Microdrones UAV Operates Inside Controlled Airspace

Microdrones has released a study detailing the use of their mdMapper1000DG UAS (unmanned aerial system) mapping solution to create topographic...

Jun 11, 2020
CHC Navigation Introduces BB4 UAV and AlphaUni LiDAR Series

Multi-platform, high-accuracy 3D laser scanning solutions for geospatial and mapping professionals. CHC Navigation have announced today the launch of the...

Jun 11, 2020
Selecting Individual Components for Multirotor Drone Propulsion Systems

Mejzlik Propellers has released the following article outlining the advantages of selecting individual components such as propellers for a new...

Jun 11, 2020
UAV Navigation Autopilot Tested Against Counter-Drone System

UAV Navigation has tested the robustness of its drone autopilot system against counter-UAS (unmanned aerial system) technologies with an Alpha...

Jun 11, 2020
Simpulse Partners with XSun to Achieve Extended Range Air-Ground Data Links

Simpulse partners with solar drone specialist XSun to reach air-ground data links of over 100 km SDR platform developer Simpulse...

Jun 10, 2020
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.