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

Hybrid Gas-Electric Drone Completes BVLOS Flight

The first civilian BVLOS (beyond-visual-line-of-sight) flight by a UAV under FAA Part 107 rules, has been successfully undertaken in Alaska....

Aug 19, 2019
Raven B UAS Selected for US Army Security Force Assistance Brigades

The United States Army has awarded a firm fixed-price contract to AeroVironment, valued at over US$45m, for the supply of...

Aug 19, 2019
UAVOS Develops Distributed Architecture Autopilot for Unmanned Systems

UAVOS has announced that it has developed an autopilot that can be integrated into a variety of unmanned platforms, including...

Aug 15, 2019
Moog Provides Flight Control Actuation Systems for Bell Air Taxi

Moog, a leading manufacturer of precision motion control solutions for unmanned vehicles and robotics, has confirmed that it is one...

Aug 15, 2019
Drone Aviation Delivers Unmanned Aerostats to US Border Patrol

Drone Aviation Holding Corp, a manufacturer of specialized tethered aerial monitoring and communications platforms, has announced that it has delivered...

Aug 15, 2019
Natural Gas Sensors Integrated onto US-1 Drone

SeekOps Inc., a gas sensor manufacturer and service provider, has announced that it is integrating its proprietary SeekIR gas sensors...

Aug 15, 2019
Autonomous Aerial Passenger Vehicle Pilot Program Announced

EHang, an autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company, has announced that it has selected Guangzhou as its first urban...

Aug 15, 2019
ASSURE Releases Phase II UAS Ground Collision Study

ASSURE (Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence) has announced that it has released the findings of its...

Aug 14, 2019
Drone Parachute Systems Used to Test Rocket Recapture Project

Drone Rescue Systems GmbH has announced that it has partnered with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und...

Aug 14, 2019
Atmos UAV Integrates MicaSense Precision Agriculture Payload

Atmos UAV, a manufacturer of UAS (unmanned aerial systems) for mapping and surveying, has announced that it has expanded its...

Aug 13, 2019
VTOL Drone Conducts 51 Mile BVLOS Utility Inspection

Censys Technologies, a manufacturer of commercial UAS for surveying, inspections and mapping, has confirmed that the Sentaero v2VTOL has successfully...

Aug 12, 2019
Autonomous Drone Charging Station for Outdoor Environments Introduced

Skysense ​has ​​announce​d​ the launch of ​its new High Power Outdoor Charging Pad product line for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)....

Aug 09, 2019
US Air Force to Trial High-Power Counter-Drone Laser Systems

Raytheon Company has announced that it will deploy two prototype high energy laser weapon systems to troops overseas under a...

Aug 08, 2019
Tactical Aerostat System Demonstrated at ANTX

Carolina Unmanned Vehicles (CUV) has announced that it has successfully demonstrated its Small Tactical Multi-Payload Aerostat System (STMPAS) at the...

Aug 08, 2019
Solar-Powered Stratospheric UAV to be Tested Over Hawaii

HAPSMobile has announced that it has received a COA2 Certificate of Authorization from the FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration) to...

Aug 08, 2019
uAvionix Opens New Headquarters and Manufacturing Facility

uAvionix, a designer and manufacturer of communications, navigation, and surveillance equipment for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced its recent...

Aug 07, 2019
Drone-Based Unexploded Ordnance Detection Developed

Researchers from Binghamton University’s Geophysical Laboratory and Ukrainian Multirotor Technologies LLC (UMT) have announced that their joint research team has...

Aug 07, 2019
National Drone Flight Information Management System Deployed in Switzerland

Skyguide, the Swiss air navigation service provider, and AirMap, a global airspace intelligence platform for drones, in partnership with the...

Aug 07, 2019
ESA Radar Supports First Ever BVLOS UAS Flight Without Human Observers

Echodyne has announced that its EchoGuard airspace management radars were the ground-based sensor for the first-ever UAS (unmanned aerial system)...

Aug 05, 2019
UAS Photogrammetry Used for Airport Inspection & Analysis

AeroTEC, a provider of aerospace testing, engineering, and certification services, has announced the successful completion of proof-of-concept UAS (unmanned aerial...

Aug 05, 2019
DroneShield Releases New Omnidirectional Drone Detection System

DroneShield has announced the launch of RfZero, an omnidirectional UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) detection device with a 1km range, following...

Aug 05, 2019
AVT Counter-Drone Technology Selected by US Air Force

Ascent Vision Technologies (AVT) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to deliver a full suite of counter-drone...

Aug 02, 2019
Elistair Tethered Drone Deployed for Traffic Monitoring

Elistair has confirmed that its Safe-T tethered drone system has been deployed in the suburbs of Lyon, the second largest...

Jul 31, 2019
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