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

Avion Unmanned Provides UAV Training Courses and Commercial Services

Avion Unmanned, a leading FAA-approved provider of training courses, services and complete solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has partnered...

May 05, 2017
Trig Avionics Announces New Multi-Mission UAS Avionics Solution

Trig Avionics has announced the TT26, a multi-mission device for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with four fully certified products in...

May 04, 2017
New senseFly Solution Increases Drone Corridor Mapping Efficiency

senseFly has announced its new mapping solution senseFly Corridor, a new platform enhancement that vastly simplifies the unmanned aircraft system...

May 04, 2017
Ascent Vision Provides Imaging Payloads for Silent Falcon UAS

Silent Falcon UAS Technologies, a manufacturer of long range solar-electric powered unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has announced that it has...

May 02, 2017
NASA Selects SuperSwift XT UAS for Volcano Ash Monitoring

Black Swift Technologies (BST) has announced that it has been awarded a contract by NASA to develop and deliver a...

May 02, 2017
Kongsberg Geospatial UAS Situational Awareness Software to be Certified for UTM

Kongsberg Geospatial, a developer of real-time geospatial visualization software, has announced that the company’s IRIS UAS Airspace Situational Awareness application...

May 02, 2017
UMS SKELDAR Provides UAS Solutions for Maritime, Commercial & Land Applications

UMS SKELDAR, a leading provider of multi-role Rotary and Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms, has partnered with Unmanned...

May 02, 2017
New Micro-Turboprop Propulsion System Integrated into ArcticShark UAS

UAV Turbines (UAVT) and Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) have announced that an ArcticShark unmanned aircraft fitted with a UAVT...

May 01, 2017
Sentera Introduces New Multispectral Double 4K Sensor for Precision Agriculture

Sentera has announced the release of its new Multispectral Double 4K Sensor, which offers five precise spectral bands: blue, green,...

Apr 30, 2017
New IBM Invention Transfers Packages Between Drones During Flight

IBM has announced that its inventors have been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones during flight. The invention...

Apr 30, 2017
Fuel Cell Propulsion System Successfully Tested on ScanEagle UAV

Ballard Power Systems has announced that the company’s subsidiary, Protonex, has successfully powered test flights of the ScanEagle unmanned aerial...

Apr 30, 2017
Lockheed Martin Performs Flight Demonstrations of Fury Tactical UAS

Lockheed Martin has announced that it is regularly flying long-range endurance test missions with its advanced tactical Group 3 unmanned...

Apr 30, 2017
uAvionix Unveils New Integrated ADS-B and GPS Solutions for Drones

uAvionix has announced a new line of four integrated Ping transceivers and navigation products for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that...

Apr 30, 2017
New Heavy-Lift Drone to Enter Production

GRIFF Aviation has announced that a new assembly plant that will produce the company’s new heavy-lift Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)...

Apr 28, 2017
Sensofusion to Further Develop Counter-UAS Mobile Platform for U.S. Marine Corps

Sensofusion has announced that the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, in partnership with Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), has awarded...

Apr 27, 2017
FAA Releases First Set of UAS Facility Maps

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it has published more than 200 facility maps to streamline the commercial...

Apr 26, 2017
DJI And Hasselblad Announce 100-Megapixel Integrated Aerial Photography Platform

DJI and professional camera developer Hasselblad have announced the introduction of what the two companies claim is the first 100-megapixel...

Apr 25, 2017
New Production Facility for Predator B UAS Landing Gear Opened in the Netherlands

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and GKN Aerospace’s Fokker business, a developer of landing gear technologies, have announced the official opening...

Apr 25, 2017
NWUAV Develops New Twin-Cylinder Multi-Fuel UAV Engine

Northwest UAV (NWUAV) has started development of its new NW-88 Twin-Cylinder Multi-Fuel UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) propulsion system based on...

Apr 24, 2017
XDynamics Unveils New Modular Customizable Industrial Drone

XDynamics has announced the introduction of the D-02, its next-generation aerial platform for professional drone cinematography and industrial applications. The...

Apr 22, 2017
Navmar to Test Micro-Turboprop Engine on TigerShark UAV

Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) and UAV Turbines Inc. (UAVT) have announced plans for a joint flight demonstration of NASC’s...

Apr 20, 2017
KDDI and Terra Drone Announce New 4G LTE Drone Control Network

Terra Drone and telecommunications operator KDDI have announced the completion of their new 4G LTE control system, which allows operators...

Apr 18, 2017
Leidos to Provide US Army with UAS Services and Field Support

Leidos has announced that it has been awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Army to provide Tactical Unmanned Aircraft...

Apr 18, 2017
Northwest UAV NW-44 Engine Logs Over 1000 Combat Flight Hours

Northwest UAV has announced that its NW-44 Multi-Fuel Engine has reached the milestone of logging over 1000 combat flight hours....

Apr 18, 2017
SimActive’s Correlator3D Software Selected for Emergency UAS Response Services

SimActive, a developer of photogrammetry software, has announced that Trumbull Unmanned is using their Correlator3D software as part of their...

Apr 18, 2017
Verizon Conducts Flight Tests of New Drone-Based 4G LTE Service

Verizon has announced that it has conducted the latest engineering flight tests to determine how large an area of wireless...

Apr 17, 2017
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.