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

Topcon Incorporates Bentley Modelling Software into UAS Solutions

Topcon Positioning Group has announced that it has partnered with Bentley Systems to develop its new Topcon ContextCapture reality modeling...

Mar 16, 2017
John Deere to Provide Customers With Kespry Industrial Aerial Intelligence System

John Deere and Kespry have announced an exclusive global strategic alliance through which John Deere Construction & Forestry dealers will...

Mar 15, 2017
Harris Corp to Develop First BVLOS UAS Network

Harris Corporation has announced that it has received a two-year grant to help develop a first-of-its-kind solution to enable beyond-visual-line-of-sight...

Mar 14, 2017
Draganfly UAVs to Feature SureFire LED Lights for Night Operations

Draganfly Innovations has announced that it has signed an agreement with SureFire to integrate and test LED technology as a...

Mar 13, 2017
Terra Drone Launches New Heavy-Lifting UAV

Terra Drone Corporation has announced the launch of the new “Terra Powerlifter” unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) series, continuing its focus...

Mar 13, 2017
7i Imaging Systems Introduces 4K Live Video Streaming From Drones

7i Imaging Systems, a specialist in digital image production from aerial platforms, has announced a 4K/1080p live streaming service from...

Mar 13, 2017
US Air Force Uses UAV for C17 Globemaster Post-Flight Inspection

The U.S. Air Force has announced that its 412th Test Wing’s Emerging Technologies Combined Test Force (CTF) has used a...

Mar 12, 2017
Thales and Unifly Announce ECOsystem UAS Traffic Management System

Thales has announced the launch of ECOsystem UTM, an advanced solution for Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management (UTM), built with...

Mar 09, 2017
CyPhy Works and Pilot Thomas Logistics to Provide Oil & Gas Drone Services

CyPhy Works and Pilot Thomas Logistics have announced that the two firms have partnered to provide Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) services...

Mar 09, 2017
Hughes to Provide Satellite Communications for Type-Certifiable Predator B

Hughes Network Systems has announced that its Defense and Intelligence and Systems Division (DISD) has been awarded a contract by...

Mar 07, 2017
Leonardo Announces New Secure Air Traffic Management System for Drones

Leonardo has announced that the company is ready to deploy its automated system for unmanned aircraft air traffic management (ATM)....

Mar 07, 2017
Northrop Grumman Tests Multi-Spectral Sensor on RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS

Northrop Grumman has announced that it has begun flight testing of the MS-177 sensor payload with a successful inaugural flight...

Mar 06, 2017
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
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