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

Drone-Based Reseeding Service Gains BVLOS Approval

DroneSeed, a startup that uses drone swarms to deliver seed payloads to restore forests and rangelands after wildfires, has announced...

Dec 16, 2019
Modernization Contracts Awarded for US Army Gray Eagle ER UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that it has been awarded multiple contracts by the U.S. Army to...

Dec 16, 2019
Microturbine Generator for Electric UAVs Demonstrated

UAV Turbines, Inc. (UAVT), a developer of microturbine technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced that it successfully demonstrated...

Dec 12, 2019
Remote ID Drone Tracking Standard to be Published

Standards organization ASTM International has announced that it will publish a new standard that aims to facilitate identification and tracking...

Dec 12, 2019
MQ-9 Maritime Surveillance Capabilities Demonstrated in Greece

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that it has begun a series of demonstration flights with its MQ-9...

Dec 10, 2019
Microdrones UAS Adopted by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Microdrones has announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Sacramento District’s aviation team has selected the company’s mdMapper1000DG...

Dec 10, 2019
First BVLOS UAV Flight Performed Solely with Onboard DAA

Applied Aeronautics has announced that its Albatross UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) has been used by the Kansas Department of Transportation’s...

Dec 09, 2019
SkyGuardian UAS Chosen for Australian Defence Force

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that the Australian Government has selected the company’s MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial...

Dec 05, 2019
Drone Aviation Merges with 5G Telecoms Firm

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a developer of unmanned tethered aerial monitoring and communications platforms, has announced that it has closed...

Dec 05, 2019
Field Training Conducted with X-MADIS Counter-Drone System

Ascent Vision Technologies (AVT) has announced that it has recently undertaken comprehensive field training exercises with its X-MADIS Fixed Site...

Dec 05, 2019
Drone Cargo Delivery Trialled in China

Airbus and XAG have announced that the two companies have tested their jointly-developed drone cargo service in Guangzhou, China. A...

Dec 03, 2019
Threod UAVs Participate in Search & Rescue Exercise

Threod Systems has announced that its Stream and Titan unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have participated in a joint exercise involving...

Dec 03, 2019
Acecore Selects Robotic Skies for UAS Maintenance & Repair

Acecore Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of professional unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has announced that it has partnered with Robotic...

Dec 03, 2019
New Fixed-Wing Mapping UAS Launched

Hitec Commercial Solutions, a designer and manufacturer of professional UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) solutions for a wide variety of aerial...

Dec 03, 2019
Leonardo Invests in Solar-Powered Heavy-Lift Drone

Leonardo has announced that it has invested in Skydweller Aero Inc., a start-up specialising in large-scale solar-powered unmanned air systems...

Nov 28, 2019
New 61 MP Aerial Imagery Payload for UAS Released

ZALA Aero, a developer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and associated equipment, has announced the launch of a new high-end...

Nov 27, 2019
MQ-9 UAS Aids Firefighting Operations in California

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that its Predator B/MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) has been used by...

Nov 27, 2019
U.S. Air Force Counter-Drone System Completes Next Field Testing Phase

Ascent Vision Technologies (AVT) has announced that it has completed the latest phase of field testing of the company’s eXpeditionary...

Nov 26, 2019
Vehicle-Launched Multi-Rotor Micro-Drone Introduced

Elbit Systems has announced the launch of a new fully-autonomous multi-rotor vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS)...

Nov 26, 2019
Echodyne Radars Deployed for DARPA Urban Drone Testing

Echodyne has announced that the company’s EchoGuard and EchoFlight radars were used by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)...

Nov 26, 2019
First NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance UAS Delivered

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that the first of five NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has...

Nov 26, 2019
FLIR Introduces New Multi-Sensor UAS Payloads

FLIR Systems has announced the launch of the new FLIR StormCaster family of payloads for the company’s SkyRanger R70 and...

Nov 25, 2019
Extending the Range of a Low-Power UAV Radio

NuWaves Engineering, a leading developer of radio frequency and microwave solutions for unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has released an article...

Nov 25, 2019
CAMCOPTER S-100 Integrated with French Naval Carrier

Schiebel has announced that it has worked with the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) and marine technology company Naval Group...

Nov 25, 2019
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