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

French Armed Forces Select FLIR Black Hornet UAS

FLIR Systems has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) in support...

Jan 18, 2019
Echodyne Provides Radar for FAA UAS Pilot Program Testing

Echodyne has announced that it has been selected to participate in the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) industry partnership...

Jan 18, 2019
Drone Developed for Automated Inventory Checking

Pensa Systems, a developer of autonomous perception systems, has announced that it has developed a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-based retail...

Jan 18, 2019
Microdrones Acquires Asian UAV Technology Distributor

Microdrones has announced that, as part of an ongoing global growth initiative, it has acquired Aircam UAV Technology, a 64...

Jan 17, 2019
StreamCaster Radio Selected for US Army Tactical UAS Bid

Silvus Technologies has announced that it is supplying the wireless datalink for Aerovel’s Flexrotor UAS (unmanned aerial system), which is...

Jan 17, 2019
GA-ASI Assembles Collaboration Team for MQ-9B SkyGuardian UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that it has teamed with five Belgium-based businesses as part of an...

Jan 16, 2019
Tersus Releases New GNSS Correction Software

Tersus GNSS has announced the release of its Tersus GeoCaster software for Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol (NTRIP)...

Jan 15, 2019
Optionally Piloted Targus Aircraft Starts Simulated Flight Tests

Indra, a leading global technology and consulting company, and its partner Gaerum have begun simulated flight tests for the optionally...

Jan 15, 2019
Sky Power Develops New Two-Stroke UAV Engine

Sky Power GmbH has announced the launch of its newly developed 2-stroke engine for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the SP-210...

Jan 15, 2019
Transport Canada Releases New UAS Safety Regulations

Transport Canada has announced the new rules for use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), which aim to enhance aviation and...

Jan 15, 2019
InstantEye Robotics Announces New Tactical Multi-Role sUAS

InstantEye Robotics has announced the release of the InstantEye Mk-3 GEN4-D1 multiple capability small unmanned aerial system (sUAS). The InstantEye...

Jan 14, 2019
Nevada UAS Test Site Selected for FAA UTM Pilot Program

The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) has announced that its Unmanned Aviation Test Site has been selected for the...

Jan 14, 2019
Hydrogen-Powered Multirotor UAV Achieves 70-Minute Flight Time

Intelligent Energy has announced that its fuel cells have been used to power a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that...

Jan 10, 2019
FAA Grants First National Waiver for UAS Operations Over People and BVLOS Flights

Insurance firm State Farm has announced that it has been granted the first national UAS (unmanned aerial system) waiver to...

Jan 10, 2019
New Unmanned Traffic Management R&D Project Launched in UK

The Transport Systems Catapult, a transportation innovation centre, has announced that it will lead a new UK Department for Transport...

Jan 10, 2019
Coal Stockpile Audit Completed with Drone Photogrammetry

PwC UK has announced that it has undertaken a stock count audit using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), as part...

Jan 09, 2019
Drone Aviation Awarded $3.8 Million Contract

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has been selected by a prime contractor under an...

Jan 08, 2019
Technical Insight: Inside the PD-1 UAV Engine Module

Ukrspecsystems, a developer of fixed-wing and multicopter unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has released a video highlighting the technologies that are...

Jan 07, 2019
Multi-User BVLOS UAS Network Tested in North Dakota

The University of North Dakota, along with research partners from Harris Corporation and the Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test...

Jan 03, 2019
Elbit Systems Laser Designator Technology Selected for UAVs

Elbit Systems of America has announced that it has been awarded a contract by Raytheon to deliver the Two Color...

Jan 03, 2019
Fischer Connectors Selected for Fixed-Wing Mapping Drone

Fischer Connectors has confirmed that its UltiMate™ Series of connectors has been used in Lehmann Aviation’s L-A Series UAS (unmanned...

Dec 31, 2018
DJI Mavic 2 Drone Integrates FLIR Thermal Imaging

FLIR Systems has announced that DJI will integrate the FLIR Lepton micro thermal imaging camera within its DJI Mavic 2...

Dec 31, 2018
FlightHorizon GCS Used for BVLOS Drone Tracking

Vigilant Aerospace Systems has announced that it has participated with Oklahoma State University (OSU) in the first beyond visual line-of-sight...

Dec 31, 2018
Liteye Demonstrates UAS Net-Capture System

Liteye Systems has announced that, in partnership with OpenWorks Engineering, it has successfully demonstrated the SkyWall net-capture system against real-world...

Dec 31, 2018
Parachute Rescue System Developed for DJI M600 Drones

Drone Rescue Systems GmbH has announced that it has launched a new parachute rescue system for the DJI M600 unmanned...

Dec 30, 2018
New World Record Set for Heaviest Load Carried by Drone

FPT Industrial and Forvola have announced that the two firms have broken the Guinness World Record for the heaviest payload...

Dec 28, 2018
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