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

Yuneec Unveils New Photography and Racing Drones

Yuneec International has announced the unveiling of a new fixed wing drone, the Firebird FPV, and a racing drone, the...

Jan 10, 2018
Insitu Demonstrates Situational Awareness System for UAS

Insitu has announced that it has successfully completed a flight demonstration for its ground-based Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) airspace situational...

Jan 09, 2018
AEE Selects Qualcomm Flight Embedded Platform for Drones

AEE Aviation Technology has announced that it will integrate the Qualcomm Flight embedded drone development platform to bring advanced functionality...

Jan 08, 2018
Kittyhawk Adds Automated Flight System to Drone Operations Platform

Kittyhawk, a developer of commercial drone operations software, has announced the addition of new features to its drone operations platform....

Jan 08, 2018
AeroVironment to Develop Solar-Powered HALE UAS

AeroVironment has announced the formation of a joint venture with Japanese telecommunications firm HAPSMobile to develop solar-powered high-altitude long-endurance, or...

Jan 04, 2018
AI Technology Selected for US Army’s UAS Fleet

Stryke Industries LLC has announced that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army as part of the...

Jan 04, 2018
Certified Version of Orion UAS to be Developed

Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, has confirmed that they have been awarded a new $48 million contract by the...

Jan 04, 2018
Materion Composite Materials Selected for Global Hawk UAS Multispectral Imaging Sensor

Materion Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a contract by UTC Aerospace Systems for AlBeMet metal matrix composite...

Jan 04, 2018
Ballard Launches New Fuel Cell System for Drones

Ballard Power Systems has announced that the company has developed a next-generation high-performance fuel cell propulsion system to power unmanned...

Dec 31, 2017
NV Energy Adopts UAS Technology for Utility Operations

NV Energy has announced that it has partnered with the FAA-designated Nevada UAS Test Site, managed by the Nevada Institute...

Dec 31, 2017
Drone Delivery Canada Achieves Compliant Status for Cargo Delivery Drone

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has announced that Transport Canada has accepted the company’s Declaration of Compliance for the X1000 Sparrow...

Dec 29, 2017
AirMap Trials New Zealand’s First Drone Traffic Management System

AirMap has announced that it has partnered with Airways New Zealand to deploy an unmanned traffic management system that enables...

Dec 29, 2017
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
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