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

Lockheed Martin UAS and Helicopters Demonstrate Firefighting and SAR Capabilities

Lockheed Martin has announced that it has demonstrated for the first time how its suite of optionally-piloted helicopters and small...

Nov 15, 2016
H3 Dynamics Launches Hydrogen Fuel Cell UAV with 10 Hour Flight Time

H3 Dynamics, a developer of robotics technologies, has announced the release of HYWINGS, a hand-launchable Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...

Nov 15, 2016
uAvionix’ ADS-B Transceivers Receive CAA Approval

uAvionix has achieved the first two portable, low-power ADS-B transceiver approvals under the United Kingdom’s (UK) Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)...

Nov 15, 2016
General Atomics’ UAV to Deliver Humanitarian Relief Supplies

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that it can provide a company-owned unmanned aircraft to support humanitarian relief...

Nov 15, 2016
Geodetics Launches LiDAR Mobile Mapping System for UAS

Geodetics, a developer of advanced sensing and navigation technologies, has announced the expansion of its mapping capabilities by offering a...

Nov 14, 2016
AT&T and NASA Collaborate on Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management

  AT&T has announced that, in conjunction with NASA, it is researching traffic management solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)....

Nov 12, 2016
Aurora Flight Sciences to Develop Unmanned UH-1H Helicopter

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that it will be integrating the company’s Tactical Autonomous Aerial Logistics System (TALOS) on a...

Nov 11, 2016
GA-ASI Conducts First Flight of Avenger Extended Range UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced the successful first flight of its new Avenger Extended Range (ER) aircraft, an...

Nov 11, 2016
Fruity Chutes Introduces Non-Pyro CO2 UAV Parachute Release Valve

Fruity Chutes, a manufacturer of parachute recovery systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced the availability of the company’s...

Nov 10, 2016
Trust Automation Provides Capture and Recovery System for Medical Drones

Trust Automation, Inc., a developer of high-efficiency motors and control systems, has announced that it has provided critical engineering support...

Nov 09, 2016
Echodyne Successfully Tests Airborne Detect and Avoid Radar on sUAS

Echodyne has announced that it has performed what it claims is the first ever successful test of an airborne Detect...

Nov 09, 2016
GoPro Recalls Karma Drones

GoPro Inc. has issued a recall on all Karma drones following a discovery that in a small number of cases,...

Nov 09, 2016
Cherokee Nation Technologies Supports NOAA/NASA UAS Hurricane Forecasting

Cherokee Nation Technologies (CNT), a provider of technology solutions, has announced that it has been supporting the National Oceanic and...

Nov 09, 2016
Alta Devices’ Solar Cells Extend Endurance of New UAS

Alta Devices, a developer of solar power solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced that the company’s solar technology...

Nov 08, 2016
microdrones™ and Delair-Tech Partner to Develop New Commercial UAV Solutions

Delair-Tech and microdrones have signed a revolutionary partnership agreement, with plans to develop new professional aerial mapping applications and solutions...

Nov 08, 2016
Aerotenna Announces New UAV Collision Avoidance Radar and SoC Flight Controller

Aerotenna, a developer of microwave sensors and flight control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced two new sensing...

Nov 04, 2016
Sky-Futures Launches Drone-Based Industrial Inspection Software

Sky-Futures, a provider of drone-based industrial inspection services, has announced that the company is making its in-house software commercially available....

Nov 04, 2016
UAV-America Upgrades Eagle XF UAV Platform with Sense and Avoid System

UAV-America, Inc., a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced the implementation of its advanced Sense and Avoid System...

Nov 04, 2016
C-ASTRAL Aerospace Announces New Long Endurance sUAS

C-ASTRAL Aerospace, a developer of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), has announced the launch of its new Bramor ppX long...

Nov 03, 2016
Sentient Successfully Demonstrates ViDAR Optical Radar at Unmanned Warrior

Sentient has announced that its ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) optical radar has successfully completed its capability demonstration with the...

Nov 03, 2016
Aero ID Announces Explosives Sensor Payload for UAVs

Aero ID, a developer of sensors for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced that it has developed a payload which...

Nov 02, 2016
Octopus ISR Systems Forms Strategic Partnership with SkyIMD

Octopus ISR Systems has announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with remote sensing and aerial imaging solutions...

Nov 02, 2016
New Firewatch Payload Enhances Aerosonde sUAS Surveying Capabilities

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has announced that the company has begun to offer the TK-7 Firewatch precision survey sensor on...

Oct 31, 2016
Sentera Unveils Quad-Rotor Omni UAV with Multi-Angle Data Capture

Sentera has announced the release of its new Omni Quad-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which is partnered with a gimbaled...

Oct 28, 2016
AeroVironment Awarded Netherlands MoD Contract for New & Upgraded sUAS

AeroVironment has announced that it has received a contract from the Netherlands Ministry of Defence for small unmanned aircraft systems...

Oct 28, 2016
Makeblock Announces Airblock Modular Hexacopter and Hovercraft Drone

Robotics startup Makeblock has announced the release of Airblock, a modular six-axis drone that transforms into various flying configurations, including...

Oct 27, 2016
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