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

Vodafone Tests Elistair Tethered Drone System for 4G Coverage

Elistair has announced that Vodafone Group’s New Technologies and Innovation team has experimented with using the company’s Safe-T tethered station...

Oct 18, 2017
MQ-9 UAS Supports Firefighting Efforts in Northern California

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced that the California Air National Guard’s 163d Attack Wing operating out of March...

Oct 17, 2017
DJI Unveils New Drone Identification And Tracking Technology

DJI has announced that it has unveiled AeroScope, the company’s new solution to identify and monitor airborne drones with existing...

Oct 16, 2017
E-Commerce Delivery Pilot Project Pairs Vans with Drones

Mercedes-Benz Vans has announced that, in conjunction with US drone systems developer Matternet and Swiss online marketplace siroop, it has...

Oct 13, 2017
SRC to Provide U.S. Army and Air Force with Counter-UAS Systems

SRC, a not-for-profit research and development company, has announced that it has been awarded a $12.7M contract to provide the...

Oct 13, 2017
Flirtey Plans Drone Defibrillator Delivery Program

Flirtey, a drone delivery service, and REMSA, a community-integrated emergency medical services provider, have announced a partnership to launch the...

Oct 12, 2017
U.S. Navy to Continue and Expand Blackwing UAS Program

AeroVironment has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the United States Navy for continuation and expansion of...

Oct 11, 2017
Uavos Improves GPS Spoofing Protection for UAVs

Uavos has announced that it has improved its GPS spoofing identification algorithms for its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), protecting against...

Oct 11, 2017
GA-ASI Completes Transition to Gray Eagle Extended Range UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced that it has officially transitioned its production line from the MQ-1C Gray Eagle...

Oct 10, 2017
New Privacy Mode Stops Internet Data Transfer to DJI Drones

DJI has announced that it has launched a new Local Data Mode that stops internet traffic to and from its...

Oct 10, 2017
AeroVironment to Upgrade Puma and Raven Small UAS

AeroVironment, Inc. has announced that its Puma™ AE and Raven® small unmanned aircraft systems, the most widely deployed drones in the United States Department of...

Oct 10, 2017
New Geospatial Solution Turns Drones into Accurate Mapping Systems

Verity has announced the release of Verity Mapper, a complete drone mapping solution that combines professional geospatial products to enable...

Oct 10, 2017
RT LTA Systems Unveils Upgraded Skystar 100 Aerostat

RT LTA Systems, a developer of aerostats for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and communications applications, has announced that it will present...

Oct 09, 2017
Boeing to Acquire Aurora Flight Sciences to Advance Autonomous Aircraft Technologies

Boeing has announced plans to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of advanced aerospace platforms, under an...

Oct 05, 2017
Insitu Demonstrates GIS-Enabled UAS for Fighting Wildfires

Insitu has announced that together with Esri, a specialist spatial analytics company, it has successfully completed test flights for a...

Oct 04, 2017
Drones Used to Detect Human Life Signs

The University of South Australia (UniSA) has announced that it has demonstrated that drones can be used to detect human...

Oct 02, 2017
New Adaptable UAV Concept Switches Between Fixed-Wing and Rotary Flight

BAE Systems has announced that, together with students from Cranfield University, it has revealed a new technology concept – named...

Oct 02, 2017
AP Equipment Financing Develops Commercial Drone Funding Solution

AP Equipment Financing, a leading provider of flexible financing solutions for manufacturers and vendors of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), as...

Sep 30, 2017
LiDAR-Equipped Hybrid Long Distance UAV Unveiled

Phoenix LiDAR Systems and JOUAV have announced the TerraHawk CW-30, a custom LiDAR equipped version of JOUAV’s CW-30 hybrid VTOL/fixed-wing...

Sep 30, 2017
Pix4D Launches Drone Mapping Software Certification Program

Pix4D has announced that it has launched a certification program for its Pix4dmapper drone mapping photogrammetry software, which will allow...

Sep 30, 2017
NOAA Uses UAVs to Track and Model Hurricane Maria

Raytheon has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has used six of the company’s Coyote unmanned aerial...

Sep 28, 2017
Trimble Announces New Base Station for UAV Mapping

Trimble has announced the release of its new GNSS Smart Target Base Station for high-accuracy mapping from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles...

Sep 28, 2017
AUDS Counter-Drone System Upgraded for Vehicle Deployment and Anti-Swarm Attacks

The developers of the AUDS counter-UAS defence system have announced that it has been enhanced for deployment on military and...

Sep 26, 2017
Honeywell Launches New UAV Industrial Inspection Service

Honeywell has announced that it has launched its first commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection service, the Honeywell InView inspection...

Sep 26, 2017
New Mapping Drone Features 3G/4G Communications and Onboard Processing

Delair has announced that it will introduce its next-generation professional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the UX11,...

Sep 26, 2017
Aurora Flight Sciences Wins Swiss Innovation Award

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that the company has been awarded with a 2017 Tell Award, which honours U.S. companies...

Sep 26, 2017
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