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

US Air Force Selects RE2 Robotics to Develop Robotic Pilot System

RE2 Robotics has announced that the company has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to develop a drop-in robotic...

Jun 29, 2017
Leonardo Unveils Lightweight Multi-Mode Radar for Unmanned Aircraft

Leonardo has announced that it has unveiled its new Gabbiano TS Ultra-Light (UL) surveillance radar, the result of the company’s...

Jun 28, 2017
Insitu Announces INEXA Cloud Data Processing for UAVs

Insitu has announced the availability of its INEXA Cloud capability — an integral feature of Insitu’s rapidly growing professional unmanned...

Jun 27, 2017
ECA Group Optimizes Aerial Drone for Maritime Applications

ECA Group has announced that it is expanding the use of its IT180 helicopter mini-drone to maritime applications and is...

Jun 27, 2017
Memery Launches Dragonfly Drone Video Solution App

Memery, a developer of location-based video apps, has announced the launch of Dragonfly, the company’s new complete solution for drone...

Jun 27, 2017
Sentient ViDAR to be Deployed on UMS Skeldar UAS

UMS SKELDAR has announced an agreement with Sentient Vision Systems to provide Sentient’s ViDAR (Visual identification Detection and Ranging) system...

Jun 25, 2017
European Maritime Safety Agency Selects TEKEVER AR5 UAS

TEKEVER has announced that its AR5 UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) has been chosen by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)...

Jun 24, 2017
First Responders Utilize Drone for Wireless Coverage

Verizon and American Aerospace Technologies have announced that they have developed new technologies allowing communications from a drone for disaster...

Jun 24, 2017
CAMCOPTER UAS Completes Flight Trials from French Naval Vessel

Schiebel has announced that its CAMCOPTER S-100 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has successfully completed qualification flights for the French Navy....

Jun 23, 2017
Spanish Defence Ministry Selects AUDS Counter-UAV System

Blighter Surveillance Systems has announced that the AUDS counter-UAV system, developed by Blighter and a consortium of UK defence companies,...

Jun 21, 2017
New Tactical Unmanned Helicopter Completes First Autonomous Flights

Airbus Helicopters has announced that it has recently started autonomous flight trials of a VSR700 Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) demonstrator,...

Jun 20, 2017
50-Megapixel Camera Integrated into ScanEagle UAV

Insitu has announced the successful integration of a 50-megapixel camera into its ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for delivering High...

Jun 20, 2017
Leonardo to Provide New Civilian Drone Services

Leonardo has announced that it has partnered with the certified air operator Heli Protection Europe (HPE) to offer surveillance and...

Jun 20, 2017
Rockwell Collins Avionics to Support SkyGuardian UAS

Rockwell Collins has announced that its avionics technologies have been selected for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ (GA-ASI) MQ-9B SkyGuardian. Rockwell...

Jun 20, 2017
Textron Systems Unveils NIGHTWARDEN Tactical UAS

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has announced the introduction of the NIGHTWARDEN Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) at the 2017 Paris...

Jun 19, 2017
Kratos Announces New Military-Class Unmanned Aircraft

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has announced that it has unveiled a new class of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The...

Jun 19, 2017
Simlat Delivers UAS Simulation Lab to Drexel University

Simlat has announced that it has delivered a Full Crew solution for UAS (unmanned aircraft system) training and simulation to...

Jun 19, 2017
New Commercial Drone Solution Developed for Industry

Identified Technologies has announced an alliance with DJI to provide a fully managed commercial drone solution to its Fortune 500...

Jun 19, 2017
Leonardo Announces New Aerial Target Drone

Leonardo has announced the introduction of its new aerial target drone at the 2017 Paris Air Show. Based on the...

Jun 18, 2017
Wireless Radios Enable Long Range Drone Applications for Oil & Gas

Silvus Technologies has announced that its StreamCaster series of MN-MIMO radios has been selected by SkyX, a designer and manufacturer...

Jun 18, 2017
Protonex Fuel Cell System Selected for New Hydrogen-Powered UAS

Ballard Power Systems has announced that the company’s subsidiary, Protonex, has received an initial order for its fuel cell propulsion...

Jun 14, 2017
BNC Scientific Unveils New Radiation Detecting UAV

BNC Scientific has announced the addition of a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) Radiation Detection solution to the company’s suite of...

Jun 14, 2017
Australian Defence Force Selects AeroVironment Wasp AE SUAS

AeroVironment has announced that its Wasp AE small unmanned aircraft system has been selected by the Australian Defence Force (ADF)....

Jun 13, 2017
RaptorUAS Unveils Endurance Hybrid VTOL UAS

RaptorUAS, a developer of high performance unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has announced that it has completed tests for the conversion...

Jun 12, 2017
BAE Systems to Develop Multifunctional UAS Payloads for DARPA

BAE Systems has announced that it has recently been awarded two contracts from DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency),...

Jun 11, 2017
NTT DATA Announces Unmanned Traffic Management Software Package

NTT DATA Corporation has announced the forthcoming launch of its airpalette UTM software package, which consists of an FOS (Flight...

Jun 11, 2017
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