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

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
DJI Introduces “Phantom 4 Advanced” Aerial Imaging Drone

DJI has announced the latest addition to its Phantom family of drones, the “Phantom 4 Advanced“, which features a more powerful 1-inch,...

Apr 17, 2017
MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS Completes First Flight from Littoral Combat Ship

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-8C Fire Scout autonomous helicopter took to the air for the first time from a U.S. Navy...

Apr 17, 2017
New Multispectral Sensor Tested on Global Hawk UAS

UTC Aerospace Systems has announced that it has successfully completed the first flight test of its new MS-177 long-range, multi-spectral...

Apr 17, 2017
Industrial Skyworks Releases Remote Drone Inspection Software

Industrial Skyworks has officially launched “Blue VU”, the company’s new drone inspection software for accurate and efficient inspections of buildings,...

Apr 16, 2017
FAA to Release UAS Facility Maps for Part 107 Applications

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it plans to release unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) facility maps that depict...

Apr 14, 2017
360 Designs Unveils New Live Streaming Virtual Reality Broadcast Drone

360 Designs has announced the release of Flying EYE, a broadcast quality, live streaming, virtual reality drone. Flying EYE has...

Apr 14, 2017
Advanced Solutions and 3DR to Offer Drone Data Solution to AEC Professionals

Advanced Solutions has announced that it has entered into partnership with 3DR, the developer of Site Scan, a drone data...

Apr 12, 2017
PrecisionHawk and Corning to Develop New Hyperspectral Imagery UAS Solution

PrecisionHawk has announced that it will collaborate with Corning Incorporated to sell the Corning microHSI 410-SHARK hyperspectral camera coupled with...

Apr 12, 2017
SkyX Develops Long-Range Hybrid Drone for Oil and Gas Inspections

SkyX, a start-up based in Canada, has unveiled details of their new Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to service the oil and...

Apr 11, 2017
Lockheed Martin and U.S. Air Force Demonstrate Manned/Unmanned Teaming

Lockheed Martin has announced that its Skunk Works division, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), U.S. Air...

Apr 10, 2017
General Atomics Predator B UAS Demonstrates Threat Radar Detection

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA‑ASI) has announced the successful airborne demonstration of a Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) on a GA-ASI...

Apr 10, 2017
VTOL Drone Autonomously Transports Lab Samples Between Hospitals

Swiss Post has announced that, in conjunction with the Ticino EOC hospital group and drone manufacturer Matternet, it has been...

Apr 09, 2017
SolAero Solar Cells Used on Naval Research Lab UAV

SolAero Technologies, a provider of high efficiency solar cells and panels for satellite and aerospace applications, has announced that it...

Apr 07, 2017
Hirth Motors Develops New Gasoline Engine for V-BAT UAV

Hirth Motors has developed a new propulsion system for MartinUAV‘s V-BAT transitional vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system. Hirth’s new 15hp 4201...

Apr 05, 2017
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