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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

Sentient and Insitu to Showcase ViDAR Optical Radar for UAS
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 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
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
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 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 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 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
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, 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 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
Small UAV Successfully Launched From Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Small UAV Successfully Launched From Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Lockheed Martin has announced that it has successfully launched Vector Hawk, a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), on command from...

Sep 30, 2016
New 3D Printing Composite Material Developed for Unmanned Systems
New 3D Printing Composite Material Developed for Unmanned Systems

CRP Technology, a developer of additive manufacturing technologies, has announced the launch of Windform FX Black, a new material within...

Sep 29, 2016
DJI Unveils Mavic Pro Portable Folding Drone
DJI Unveils Mavic Pro Portable Folding Drone

DJI has announced the introduction of Mavic Pro – a portable multirotor drone featuring DJI’s most innovative flight technology in...

Sep 28, 2016
US Navy Uses MQ-8B Fire Scout as Laser Designator Platform
US Navy Uses MQ-8B Fire Scout as Laser Designator Platform

The U.S. Navy has announced that its Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 has used an MQ-8B unmanned air system...

Sep 28, 2016
GA-ASI Demonstrates Long-Range UAS Communications Data Link
GA-ASI Demonstrates Long-Range UAS Communications Data Link

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced that its Network Centric Communications Pod (NCCP) successfully demonstrated the ability to provide a...

Sep 28, 2016
MQ-4C Triton UAS Obtains Milestone C Production Approval
MQ-4C Triton UAS Obtains Milestone C Production Approval

Northrop Grumman has announced that, following a successful Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) led review, the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned...

Sep 27, 2016
US Navy Tests Counter-UAS Capabilities Aboard Warships
US Navy Tests Counter-UAS Capabilities Aboard Warships

The U.S. Navy has announced that it has tested counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities aboard guided-missile destroyers USS Jason Dunham...

Sep 26, 2016
Bell Helicopter Announces New Shipborne Tiltrotor UAS Platform
Bell Helicopter Announces New Shipborne Tiltrotor UAS Platform

Bell Helicopter has announced its new V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor, an unmanned aerial system (UAS) that will combine the vertical lift...

Sep 26, 2016
Schiebel and Diehl Defence Renew Cooperation Agreement
Schiebel and Diehl Defence Renew Cooperation Agreement

Schiebel, manufacturer of the CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned aircraft system (UAS), and Diehl Defence have announced that the two companies have...

Sep 26, 2016
Terma to Provide Automated Target Recognition System for NATO AGS
Terma to Provide Automated Target Recognition System for NATO AGS

Danish defense and security firm Terma has announced that it has signed a contract with NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Management...

Sep 22, 2016
Fixed Wing or Multi-Rotor Drone? USS Outlines Key Considerations
Fixed Wing or Multi-Rotor Drone? USS Outlines Key Considerations

Unmanned Systems Source have released an infographic designed to aid the decision-making process when choosing between a multi-rotor or a...

Sep 22, 2016
GA-ASI Predator UAS Series Exceeds Four Million Flight Hours
GA-ASI Predator UAS Series Exceeds Four Million Flight Hours

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has announced that its Predator-series family of aircraft, including MQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, and...

Sep 20, 2016
GoPro Unveils Karma Drone
GoPro Unveils Karma Drone

GoPro has unveiled the long-awaited and much-anticipated Karma multirotor drone. GoPro’s founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman, introduced the Karma drone,...

Sep 20, 2016
SRC Develops Agile Condor Pod System for US Air Force
SRC Develops Agile Condor Pod System for US Air Force

SRC, Inc., a defense and aerospace research & development firm, has announced that it has delivered the first Agile Condor...

Sep 19, 2016
Garuda Robotics Announces Cell Tower Survey UAS
Garuda Robotics Announces Cell Tower Survey UAS

Garuda Robotics, a provider of enterprise robotics solutions, has announced the launch of Garuda TowerSight, a complete unmanned aerial vehicle...

Sep 16, 2016
Simlat Announces High-Fidelity Simulation for UAS Mine Inspection
Simlat Announces High-Fidelity Simulation for UAS Mine Inspection

Simlat, a provider of training solutions for unmanned vehicle systems (UAS), has announced that it has developed high-fidelity simulation capabilities...

Sep 14, 2016
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