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

GRIFF Aviation Announces New GRIFF 300 Heavy Lifting Drone

GRIFF Aviation has launched its new GRIFF 300 drone. The GRIFF 300 is an unmanned aircraft with fully customisable payload...

Dec 21, 2016
Leonardo-Finmeccanica Begins SW-4 Solo Remotely Piloted Helicopter Testing

Leonardo-Finmeccanica has announced that it has begun flight testing of its remotely piloted helicopter SW-4 Solo at Taranto-Grottaglie Airport. The...

Dec 19, 2016
Neva Aerospace Announces Electric Turbo-Fans for VTOL and STOL UAS

Neva Aerospace, a pan-European consortium which is developing industrial and commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) based on its patented distributed...

Dec 17, 2016
PrecisionHawk Releases Pathfinder UAS Research Phase 2 Results

PrecisionHawk has released its Phase 2 Pathfinder results as part of UAS TAAC (Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technical Analysis and Applications Center)...

Dec 16, 2016
AirMap and DigiCert Announce Digital Identity Certificates for Drones

AirMap has announced Drone ID, a partnership with DigiCert that will enable instant authentication of an unmanned aircraft’s identity via...

Dec 14, 2016
DARPA Launches OFFSET Swarm Tactics Program for Unmanned Vehicles

DARPA has announced that it has launched its new OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program, which aims to increase the effectiveness...

Dec 14, 2016
BAE Systems Trials Next Phase of New Unmanned Aircraft Technologies

BAE Systems has announced that, as part of collaborative efforts across the UK to assess how autonomous air vehicles could...

Dec 14, 2016
Octopus ISR Systems Unveils Enhanced Dual-Sensor UAV Payload

Octopus ISR Systems has announced an enhanced version of the company’s Epsilon 140, a UAV gimbal with a dual-sensor payload....

Dec 14, 2016
UKRspecsystems Selects Robotic Skies for Worldwide UAS Support Services

UKRspecsystems has announced that it has selected Robotic Skies to provide worldwide support services for its line of Unmanned Aircraft...

Dec 14, 2016
MetaVR Provides MQ-9 Reaper UAS Training Simulation Software to US Air Force

MetaVR has announced that it has sold new Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) licenses to unmanned air system (UAS) or...

Dec 13, 2016
New 24-Hour Endurance Hybrid Drone Developed for Monitoring & Inspection

Defiant Labs, the new technology division of Canadian drone company The Sky Guys Ltd., has announced its new drone, the...

Dec 12, 2016
Arcturus and HEC-TINA to Develop Hydrogen-Fueled Engine for UAVs

The Hydrogen Engine Center (HEC-TINA) and Arcturus UAV have announced that the two companies have formed a joint partnership to...

Dec 12, 2016
Telemedical Drones Deliver Supplies During Demonstration

HiRO (Health Integrated Rescue Operations), a telemedical drone project, has announced that it has tested two new disaster drones, delivering...

Dec 12, 2016
AeroVironment and CSU-Fresno Begin Water Stress Research with Drones

AeroVironment has announced that it has begun a year-long study with California State University, Fresno to research how unmanned aerial...

Dec 09, 2016
MBDA Brimstone Missile to be Tested for RAF Protector UAS

MBDA Systems has announced that its Brimstone precision strike missile is being planned as the UK’s guided missile solution for...

Dec 09, 2016
GA-ASI Begins Flight Testing for Gray Eagle Extended Range UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced the commencement of flight testing for its MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range (ER) series...

Dec 09, 2016
New Facility Offers US-wide Professional Drone Repairs

Unmanned Systems and Solutions (USAS) has announced that it has opened a 120,000 square foot professional drone repair facility capable...

Dec 07, 2016
Pix4D and Parrot Drones Create 3D Multispectral Images of National Park

Pix4D has announced that, as part of a joint project with Parrot, it has used drones and multispectral technology to...

Dec 07, 2016
Unmanned Safety Institute Launches Online Safety Training Course for Drone Pilots

The Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) has announced that it has launched an online training course, designed by its team of...

Dec 07, 2016
UK MoD Invests £100M in ‘Protector’ Remotely Piloted Air System

The UK’s Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, has agreed a £100M contract with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to develop...

Dec 06, 2016
NATS and Altitude Angel Release New App for UK Drone Pilots

NATS and cloud technology developer Altitude Angel have announced that they have developed an app in response to the significant...

Dec 06, 2016
Kratos to Supply High Performance Jet Powered Target Drone Systems

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its Unmanned Systems Division (USD) has recently received a contract award...

Dec 01, 2016
Groen Aeronautics to Develop VTOL Gyroplane Drones

Groen Aeronautics Corporation (GAC) has announced that it has received funding to develop the company’s ReconHawk Gyroplane Drone through to...

Nov 30, 2016
FLIR Systems Acquires Prox Dynamics

FLIR Systems has announced that it has acquired Prox Dynamics AS, a developer of nano-class unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for...

Nov 30, 2016
Type-Certifiable Predator B UAS Completes First Flight Test

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) has announced that its Type-Certifiable Predator® B (TCPB) variant completed its first flight...

Nov 29, 2016
New Cloud-Based UAV Platform to aid Autonomous Search and Rescue

Mouser Electronics, together with Easy Aerial and engineer Grant Imahara, has announced the launch of its newest entry in the...

Nov 29, 2016
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