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

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
Textron Systems Demonstrates Aerosonde HQ sUAS

  Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has announced that it has completed its inaugural customer demonstration of the Aerosonde HQ. The...

Oct 26, 2016
NASA Awards Silent Falcon UAS Airworthiness Statement

Silent Falcon UAS Technologies has announced that it has been granted an Airworthiness Statement by the Airworthiness & Flight Safety...

Oct 24, 2016
Triumph Supports MQ-4C Triton UAS Transition to Production

Triumph Group has announced that, in conjunction with Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy, the company will be paving...

Oct 24, 2016
Ellipse-D INS Selected for new NEXUS 800 Drone

HYPACK, a Xylem brand, has released a new multi-rotor UAV surveying solution: the NEXUS 800. The NEXUS 800 is an...

Oct 24, 2016
DCNS and Airbus to Design Tactical VTOL UAS for French Navy

Naval defense firm DCNS and Airbus Helicopters have announced that the two companies are joining forces to design the future...

Oct 21, 2016
Draganfly to Test New Miniaturized Hyperspectral Sensor System

Draganfly Innovations has announced that the company has signed an agreement with Optical Filter Corporation, a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated,...

Oct 20, 2016
Predator B UAS Equipped With Automatic Takeoff and Landing Software

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...

Oct 19, 2016
Aeryon SkyRanger sUAS Utilized for Aerial Intelligence During Summer Olympics

Aeryon Labs has announced that the company successfully deployed its small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) solutions during the Summer Olympic...

Oct 18, 2016
Aurora Demonstrates ALIAS Robotic System on Cessna Aircraft

On October 17, Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrated automated flight capabilities as part of the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS)...

Oct 18, 2016
Aeryon Announces Real-Time Video Processing and New EO/IR Payload

Aeryon Labs has announced the introduction of Vector, an integrated onboard computing platform dedicated to real-time video processing. Available on...

Oct 18, 2016
Leonardo Osprey Radar to be used on MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS

Leonardo-Finmeccanica has announced that its Osprey active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been picked to serve as look-out on-board...

Oct 17, 2016
Drone Aviation to Supply WATT Electric Tethered Drones to US DoD

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that it has been awarded a...

Oct 15, 2016
GDU Unveils Advanced Byrd Folding and Modular Consumer Drone

GDU, a consumer drone manufacturer, has announced the launch of the Advanced Byrd, an upgrade to the company’s drone that...

Oct 14, 2016
Sentient and Insitu to Showcase ViDAR Optical Radar for UAS

Sentient and Insitu have announced that the two companies will demonstrate the ViDAR wide area autonomous detection system on the...

Oct 13, 2016
Northrop Grumman Tests Optical Bar Camera on Global Hawk UAS

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that it has successfully flown an Optical Bar Camera broad-area synoptic sensor on an RQ-4...

Oct 13, 2016
Delair-Tech Acquires Trimble’s Gatewing UAS Business

Trimble has confirmed that Delair-Tech has acquired its Belgium-based Gatewing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) engineering and manufacturing business. Headquartered in...

Oct 11, 2016
microdrones and Delair-Tech Form Strategic Alliances with Trimble

Following the sale of its Gatewing UAS business, Trimble has entered into strategic alliances with Delair-Tech and microdrones of Siegen,...

Oct 11, 2016
senseFly Announces New eBee Plus Mapping Drone

senseFly, a producer of professional mapping drones, has released details of its next-generation fixed-wing UAS for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the eBee Plus,...

Oct 06, 2016
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Counter-UAS Technologies

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently took part in the annual U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Black Dart exercise for countering unmanned aerial...

Oct 06, 2016
Northrop Grumman to Provide Additional MQ-8C Fire Scouts for US Navy

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that it is to build 10 additional MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters for the U.S....

Oct 04, 2016
US Coast Guard Tests UAS-Mounted ViDAR For Search Missions

Sentient, a developer of computer vision solutions, has announced the successful completion of its live demonstration of ViDAR with the...

Oct 03, 2016
Aerialtronics, Neurala and NVIDIA Demonstrate AI-Powered Drone Inspection

Aerialtronics, in conjunction with Neurala, a pioneer in deep learning software, and NVIDIA, has demonstrated automated inspections by an intelligent...

Oct 03, 2016
Latitude Engineering HQ-60 UAV Sets New Flight Record

Latitude Engineering has announced that, in conjunction with a team coordinated by L-3 Unmanned Systems, it has surpassed the world...

Sep 30, 2016
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