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 Drone Sets Flight Endurance Record

Quaternium, a developer of long-endurance multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced that it has set a new world record...

Dec 28, 2017
Sagetech Transponder Enables UAS Operations in Civil Airspace

Sagetech Corporation has announced that it has demonstrated the safe flight of a small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) in controlled...

Dec 24, 2017
FAA and ASSURE Announce Results of Drone-Aircraft Collision Study

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) have announced the results...

Dec 23, 2017
NASA Tests Unmanned Aircraft with Lightweight Flexible Wings

NASA has announced that it plans to perform a series of tests with the subscale X-56A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...

Dec 22, 2017
Boeing Unveils Design for U.S. Navy Unmanned Refuelling Aircraft

Boeing has announced that it has unveiled its design for the U.S. Navy’s competition to develop an unmanned aircraft system...

Dec 20, 2017
SolAero Technologies and Johns Hopkins to Develop Integrated Solar UAS Wing

SolAero Technologies Corp., a provider of high-efficiency solar cells and composite structural products for aerospace applications, has announced that it...

Dec 20, 2017
Netherlands Aerospace Centre Researches Naval Unmanned Helicopter Operations

The Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) has announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with Delft Dynamics and Damen Naval...

Dec 20, 2017
Airbus and Williams to Collaborate on High-Altitude Solar-Powered UAS

Airbus and Williams Advanced Engineering have announced that the two companies have entered into a partnership to explore potential areas...

Dec 20, 2017
Trig Avionics Launches New Certified UAS BVLOS Solution

Trig Avionics has announced the launch of the TT26, a certified transponder that allows UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) platforms to...

Dec 19, 2017
U.S. Army and Marine Corps to Develop 3D-Printed Drones

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has announced that it is working with the U.S. Marine Corps to develop 3D...

Dec 19, 2017
Fire Scout UAS to Serve as Forward Spotter for US Navy Ships

The U.S. Navy has announced that its MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will receive a new radar and...

Dec 15, 2017
Jet-Powered UAV Completes First Phase of Flight Trials

BAE Systems and the University of Manchester have announced that they have successfully completed the first phase of flight trials...

Dec 14, 2017
New Autonomous Drone Solution Developed for Precision Agriculture

American Robotics, an industrial drone developer specializing in agricultural automation, has announced the release of its flagship product Scout, a...

Dec 13, 2017
Aurora Demonstrates Unmanned Helicopter for US Marines

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that it has conducted a successful demonstration of the company’s autonomous helicopter system developed under...

Dec 13, 2017
French Defense Agency Supports Elistair’s Airwatch Project

Elistair, a designer and manufacturer of tethered drone systems for aerial surveillance, has signed an agreement with the French Defense...

Dec 13, 2017
UAVOS Converts Light Aircraft into Multifunctional UAV

Uavos has announced that the company has created an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on the Sinus light aircraft manufactured...

Dec 12, 2017
AirMap UTM Platform Released for Japan

Rakuten AirMap has announced the release of its AirMap unmanned traffic management (UTM) platform to drone operators and airspace managers...

Dec 11, 2017
University of Maryland UAS Test Site Acquires TigerShark Aircraft

The University of Maryland Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Test Site has announced that it has acquired 11 TigerShark vehicles to...

Dec 11, 2017
Viasat Develops Cryptographic Module for USAF Unmanned Systems

Viasat, a global communications company, has announced that, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, it has successfully completed its...

Dec 06, 2017
DroneAG Launches New Agricultural Drone Solution

DroneAG has announced the launch of its new M200 Agri Pro agricultural drone package. The new solution is based around...

Dec 06, 2017
SkyX Drone Completes Autonomous 100km Data Collection Flight

SkyX Systems Corporation, a provider of long-range unmanned aerial monitoring and data collection services, has announced that it has successfully...

Dec 05, 2017
UMS SKELDAR Demonstrates Unmanned Helicopter to German Armed Forces

UMS SKELDAR has announced that, along with its key partner ESG (ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH), it has successfully completed a...

Dec 04, 2017
MicroPilot Integrates Sense & Avoid System into UAV Autopilot

MicroPilot has announced that it has successfully integrated the FLARM Sense and Avoid system with its autopilot, granting clients a...

Dec 04, 2017
QinetiQ Simulates UAV Threat for Royal Canadian Navy

QinetiQ Target Systems (QTS) has conducted a live demonstration to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), emulating the threat posed to...

Dec 01, 2017
European Space Agency Investigates High-Altitude UAVs

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it is considering extending its activities to a new region of the...

Nov 30, 2017
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