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

Pix4D Creates Drone-based Software Solutions for Surveying, Agriculture & Construction

Pix4D, a pioneering developer of software tools that create professional-grade georeferenced maps and models from drone-captured imagery, has partnered with...

Mar 06, 2017
senseFly and MicaSense Develop New Agricultural Drone & Data Solution

senseFly has announced that it has signed a commercial agreement with agricultural data gathering, processing, and analytics provider MicaSense that...

Mar 04, 2017
VStar Systems and Martin UAV Successfully Test Signal Intelligence Sensor

VStar Systems has announced the successful flight test of its modular Signal Intelligence Sensor, MA-C/lite, aboard the Martin UAV V-Bat...

Mar 04, 2017
General Atomics Announces Team Reaper Australia

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced the official launch of its Team Reaper Australia solution to the Project Air...

Mar 03, 2017
Leonardo to Develop Phase 2 of UK MoD RWUAS Demonstrator Program

Leonardo has announced that the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Technology Office has placed a two...

Mar 02, 2017
Arctic Atmospheric Data Collection UAS to Undergo Flight Testing

The ArcticShark, a new unmanned aircraft system (UAS) designed to collect sophisticated atmospheric data in the Arctic, is to begin...

Mar 02, 2017
US Air Force to Retire MQ-1 Predator and Transition to MQ-9 Reaper

The U.S. Air Force has announced that it plans to retire the MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft in early 2018...

Feb 28, 2017
DJI Launches M200 Drone Series with ADS-B Collision Avoidance Technology

DJI has unveiled the new Matrice 200 drone series (M200), which is purpose-built for professional users to perform aerial inspections...

Feb 28, 2017
Aeryon SkyRanger sUAS Completes First Approved BVLOS Flight Test in Canada

Aeryon Labs has announced that the Aeryon SkyRanger small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) has successfully completed the first Beyond Visual...

Feb 27, 2017
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Develops UAV Tactical Battle Manager

The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has announced that...

Feb 27, 2017
MMC Introduces Second Generation Hydrogen Fuel Cell Drone

MMC has introduced the next generation of its hydrogen technology-powered multirotor drone at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX 2017)...

Feb 27, 2017
UAS Fleet Provides Situational Awareness During Army & Fire Rescue Joint Exercise

Airborne Response, a drone services and consulting firm, has announced that a fleet of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), consisting of...

Feb 27, 2017
Cloud-Seeding UAV Completes BVLOS Test Flight in Nevada

A cloud-seeding research team led by the Desert Research Institute (DRI) flight operations node has announced that it has realized...

Feb 27, 2017
AirMap and senseFly Partner to Deliver Safer Commercial Drone Solutions

AirMap and senseFly have announced that they have partnered to deliver AirMap’s airspace services to senseFly’s eBee fixed wing drones...

Feb 25, 2017
Leonardo to Provide AESA Radar for French Army Patroller UAVs

Leonardo has announced that it has been selected by Safran Electronics & Defense to provide the PicoSAR AESA (active electronically...

Feb 24, 2017
Verizon Acquires Skyward to Provide Simplified Drone Operations

Verizon has announced that it has purchased Skyward, thus adding drone operations management to the Verizon Internet of Things (IoT)...

Feb 21, 2017
New Russian UAV Developed for ISR Operations

Zala Aero Group has unveiled the ZALA 421-16E2, its latest unmanned reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. Introduced at IDEX-2017, the new...

Feb 21, 2017
New ALPHA 800 Unmanned Helicopter Offers Greater Endurance

Alpha Unmanned Systems has released the ALPHA 800 unmanned helicopter – an evolution of the SNIPER UAS. Following 18 months...

Feb 21, 2017
Nokia Showcases LTE-Connected Drones for First Responders

Nokia has showcased how drones can facilitate efficient rescue operations for first responders. Using its Ultra Compact Network – a...

Feb 20, 2017
DJI and AMA Announce New Drone Safety and Training Program

The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) and DJI have announced the launch of a joint program to promote safe and...

Feb 18, 2017
US Navy Selects Forward Operating Base for MQ-4C Triton

The U.S. Navy has announced that it has selected Naval Station (NS) Mayport in Florida as the East Coast Forward...

Feb 16, 2017
New Wide-Area Sensor Tested Aboard Insitu Tactical UAS

Logos Technologies and Insitu have announced the successful initial flight test of the Redkite wide-area sensor aboard the Integrator small...

Feb 16, 2017
US Marines Test New Reconnaissance sUAS

The U.S. Marine Corps has announced that it has tested the capabilities of a new drone known as the Instant...

Feb 16, 2017
Sentera Integrates NDVI Crop Health Sensor with DJI Phantom 4

Sentera has announced its new conversion of a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone into a precision scouting tool that collects...

Feb 16, 2017
Aeryon and DroneDeploy to Deliver Commercial & Industrial UAS Solutions

Aeryon Labs and DroneDeploy have announced a partnership between the two companies to deliver integrated UAS solutions to end-users and...

Feb 14, 2017
DARPA’s SideArm Prototype Successfully Retrieves UAS Mid-Flight

DARPA has confirmed that in December 2016, Aurora Flight Sciences successfully tested a full-scale technology demonstration system that repeatedly captured...

Feb 14, 2017
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