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

Centaur UAS Demonstrates Unpiloted Air Taxi Service

Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrated the use of its Centaur unmanned aircraft as an unpiloted air taxi service during the opening of...

May 22, 2017
Insitu ScanEagle UAV Assists U.S. Coast Guard

Insitu has announced that the ScanEagle small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) deployed aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter STRATTON has...

May 22, 2017
Drone Mapping Supports Search & Rescue Operations During Colombia Landslide

Pix4D has announced that its drone mapping technology has been used to support search & rescue operations in Mocoa, in...

May 22, 2017
Autonomous Co-Pilot Flies and Lands Simulated Boeing 737

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that its Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program, developed for the Defense Advanced Research...

May 19, 2017
Lockheed Martin Indago UAS Selected for Search and Rescue Operations

Lockheed Martin has announced that its Indago quadrotor small unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been selected by sheriff’s agencies in...

May 19, 2017
Consortiq Launches New IoT Intelligence UAS Operations Portal

Consortiq has announced the launch of its IoT (Internet of Things) inspired flight planning portal, CQNet. Using real time data...

May 18, 2017
UAV Range Extender Enables BLOS Operations

Flyability SA has announced the introduction of the Range Extender, an accessory for the company’s collision-tolerant indoor drone Elios. The...

May 17, 2017
XPONENTIAL 2017 – the UST Round-Up

More than 7,000 attendees and over 600 exhibitors attended XPONENTIAL 2017, the annual AUVSI trade show last week, held in Dallas. It...

May 15, 2017
3W-International Develops New Hybrid Wankel UAV Engine

Engine manufacturer 3W-International has expanded its range of drive products for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with its new 3W-180 SRE...

May 15, 2017
Drone Aviation Unveils New Heavy Lift Multirotor Tethered Drone

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has unveiled the company’s new WATT 300 heavy-lift...

May 15, 2017
New Record Set for Urban Package Delivery by Drone

A Nevada unmanned aircraft system (UAS) consortium (Team Roadrunner) has announced that it has set a new record flying a...

May 12, 2017
Pulse Aerospace Unveils New Long-Endurance Unmanned Helicopters

Pulse Aerospace, a developer of multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) platforms, has announced the release of two new VTOL UAS, the...

May 11, 2017
UAV Vision Launches New Lightweight 3-Axis Camera Gimbal

UAV Vision has announced the launch of a new 3-axis gyro-stabilised gimbal, which has been unveiled at the AUVSI XPONENTIAL...

May 11, 2017
AeroVironment Unveils Snipe Nano Quadrotor UAS for ISR Missions

AeroVironment has unveiled the new Snipe Nano Quad, a miniature (“Class 0”) and field-rugged unmanned aircraft system (UAS) designed to...

May 10, 2017
Harris to Provide BVLOS Capabilities for Grand Sky UAS Park

Harris Corporation has announced that it has been selected by Grand Sky Airfield Operations to provide an advanced solution to...

May 10, 2017
Lockheed Martin Upgrades Indago UAS for Military ISR Missions

Lockheed Martin has announced that the newest version of its Indago quadrotor unmanned aerial system (UAS), Indago 3, now enables...

May 10, 2017
Rockwell Collins Demonstrates BVLOS Operations with UAS Radio Data Link

Rockwell Collins has announced that, in conjunction with BNSF Railway, it has successfully demonstrated with a series of test flights...

May 09, 2017
Airbus Announces New Commercial Drone Services Division

Airbus has announced that it has launched its U.S. base and operations of a new commercial drone start-up, named Airbus...

May 09, 2017
HAZON Solutions Releases Cloud-Based Drone Management Software

HAZON Solutions has launched the HAZON Drone Management System (HAZON DMS), a secure, web-based management tool providing drone operators with a...

May 09, 2017
UAV Satcom Terminal Successfully Completes Live Video Trials

Cobham SATCOM has announced that it has successfully completed live video transmission trials over the AVIATOR UAV 200 low SWAP...

May 09, 2017
PrecisionHawk Opens Access to PrecisionMapper Drone Mapping Software

PrecisionHawk has announced that it has opened access to its professional mapping and analytics software, PrecisionMapper, for free. The announcement...

May 09, 2017
UAS Services to be Integrated into Daily Operations at Edmonton International Airport

Clear Flight Solutions (CFS) and AERIUM Analytics have announced that the two companies will be focusing on safely integrating unmanned...

May 09, 2017
Hybrid UAS Completes Autonomous Marine Flight Test

Swift Engineering has announced that its Swift020 hybrid unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has successfully performed a completely autonomous marine flight...

May 08, 2017
New Tethered Drone Station Features 60 Mbs Secured Datalink

Elistair has announced the launch of the Ligh-T 2, the company’s new advanced edition of the Ligh-T tethered drone station,...

May 08, 2017
Inmarsat Announces New UAV Satellite Communications Service

Inmarsat and Cobham SATCOM have announced the launch of the Inmarsat SwiftBroadband unmanned aerial vehicle (SB-UAV) satellite communications service, intended...

May 08, 2017
Rapid Composites Announces New Amphibious VTOL UAS

Rapid Composites has announced Bullray – a rugged, fully autonomous, waterproof and man-portable VTOL unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that is...

May 06, 2017
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