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

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
U.S. Navy Tests New Unmanned Mine Detection System

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has announced that, during a recent technology demonstration at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton,...

Jun 10, 2017
Commercial Drone Completes 30-Mile BVLOS Flight via 3G

Delair-Tech and electrical services company RTE have announced that they have set a new distance record by flying a civilian...

Jun 09, 2017
Wirth Research Unveils New VTOL Hydrogen-Powered UAS

Wirth Research has announced the release of more details and the first images of its new tilt rotor, Vertical Take...

Jun 08, 2017
SkyX Unveils New Drone Charging Stations

SkyX, a developer of long-range unmanned aerial monitoring technologies, has announced the successful delivery and installation of its first production...

Jun 08, 2017
NASA and Partners Test Next Phase of UAS Traffic Management System

The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) has announced that, along with its NASA partners, it has flown five different...

Jun 07, 2017
Automated Object Detection Software to be Deployed on Wasp AE sUAS

Sentient Vision Systems has announced that its Kestrel automated object detection software will be deployed by the Australian Defence Force...

Jun 06, 2017
New Flight Mode Adds As-Built Surveying Capabilities to Drone Data Capture App

3DR has announced Perimeter Scan, a new flight mode for the Site Scan Field iOS drone data platform app for...

Jun 06, 2017
US Air Force Personnel to be Equipped with Counter-UAV Detection and Jamming Systems

Radio Hill Technologies (RHT), based in Portland, Oregon, has confirmed that the US Air Force has selected the Block 3...

Jun 05, 2017
Avion Unmanned partners with TN Sheriff’s Association for Online Drone Training

Avion Solutions, Inc. has announced a new partnership with the Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association (TSA) to pay 10% of UAS training...

Jun 05, 2017
UAS Students to use Augmented Reality Software for Disaster Relief Study

Rapid Imaging Software has announced that unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will use the company’s SmartCam3D...

Jun 04, 2017
DARTdrones to Provide UAV Pilot Training for Project Lifesaver

Project Lifesaver International (PLI) and DARTdrones have announced a formal partnership between the two organizations in which DARTdrones will provide...

Jun 02, 2017
Insitu Integrator UAV Selected by Netherlands MoD

Insitu has announced that it has been awarded a Short Range Tactical UAV (SRTUAV) contract for its Integrator unmanned aircraft...

Jun 01, 2017
Indago UAS Performs BVLOS Pipeline Inspections

Lockheed Martin has announced that, in partnership with Canadian UAVs, it has completed what it claims is the first beyond...

Jun 01, 2017
The Importance of Drones and Photogrammetry for the Insurance Industry

Pix4D has released the following article detailing how drones and photogrammetry are changing the insurance industry: Drone-based photogrammetry, popularly known...

Jun 01, 2017
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