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

Textron Systems Integrates Hybrid Quadrotor Technology with Aerosonde UAS

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a subsidiary business of aerospace and defense firm Textron Inc., has announced that it has successfully...

Apr 29, 2016
Protonex Delivers UAV Fuel Cell Propulsion System to Boeing Insitu

Ballard Power Systems, a developer of clean energy products, has announced that the company’s subsidiary, Protonex, has delivered prototype PEM...

Apr 29, 2016
UAV Factory Announces New Partnership Program for Payload Developers

UAV Factory, a manufacturer of long-endurance small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced a new partnership program to support...

Apr 29, 2016
Raytheon Provides Advanced Mission Controls for US Navy MQ-8 Fire Scout UAS

Raytheon Company has announced that, in conjunction with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command, it has deployed advanced mission...

Apr 28, 2016
e.Yo Copter Develops Turbo Prop Multi-Mission Drone Helicopter

e.Yo Copter, a startup technology firm, has announced that it is developing a multi-mission unmanned helicopter. The e.Yo 400 is...

Apr 27, 2016
5D Robotics Acquires Assets of Aerial MOB and Creates New Aerial Division

5D Robotics, Inc., a developer of robotic positioning and motion technologies, has announced its acquisition of industrial assets and intellectual...

Apr 27, 2016
Textron Systems Joins Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a developer of unmanned vehicles, has announced its participation in the Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems...

Apr 27, 2016
PrecisionHawk Introduces Lancaster 5 UAS for Enterprise Data Collection

PrecisionHawk, a developer of unmanned aerial information tools for business, has announced the Lancaster 5, the company’s fifth generation UAV...

Apr 27, 2016
Silent Falcon UAS Technologies Collaborates with NASA on Drone Traffic Management Program

Silent Falcon UAS Technologies, a developer of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and related components and sensors, has announced that...

Apr 26, 2016
FAA Approves First Nighttime Commercial UAV Operation

Aeryon Labs Inc., the premier manufacturer of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), announced today that Toronto-based Industrial SkyWorks (ISW), a...

Apr 26, 2016
U.S. Army Orders RQ-7B V2 Shadow Tactical UAS Upgrades

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a Textron Inc. business, has received a $116.5 million award from the U.S. Army for an...

Apr 25, 2016
Royal Australian Air Force Operates Heron UAS Alongside Manned Aircraft

The Royal Australian Air Force has announced that it has operated the Heron remotely-piloted unmanned aircraft system out of RAAF...

Apr 21, 2016
DJI Announces Matrice 600 UAV for Aerial Photography and Filmmaking

DJI has announced the introduction of the Matrice 600, its next-generation aerial platform for professional aerial photography, filmmaking and industrial...

Apr 20, 2016
SUAS Demonstrate Capabilities in RAPS II Flight Tests

UAV Solutions, Inc. has confirmed that two of its small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) participated in flight demonstrations as a...

Apr 20, 2016
Octopus ISR Demonstrates Automatic Aerial Tracking of UAV

Octopus ISR, a developer of imaging payloads and related systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has released a video showing...

Apr 20, 2016
Juniper Unmanned Enters into Partnership with Pulse Aerospace

Juniper Unmanned, Inc., a developer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) business programs, has announced that it has entered into a...

Apr 20, 2016
CaseCruzer Announces New Mobile Drone Charging Station

CaseCruzer, a developer of durable carrying cases, has announced the release of the SmartCruzer Drone Charging Station, targeted at the...

Apr 19, 2016
First Flight of Subscale VTOL X-Plane is a Success

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that a subscale vehicle demonstrator (SVD) of its LightningStrike, Vertical Take-off and Landing Experimental Plane...

Apr 19, 2016
XFly Introduces Intelligent Flight Control Navigator for UAVs

XFLY LLC, a developer of unmanned aerial vehicle technology (UAV) solutions, has announced the introduction of the company’s new xNav...

Apr 18, 2016
Northwest UAV Engine Successfully Completes FAR 33 Endurance Test

Northwest UAV (NWUAV), a developer of propulsion systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced the successful completion of the...

Apr 18, 2016
NASA Prepares Predator B UAS for NAS Integration Tests

NASA and its partners, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Honeywell International and the RTCA Special Committee (SC)-228, are validating and...

Apr 18, 2016
CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS Demonstrates Capabilities During Canadian Ice Trials

Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) has successfully demonstrated its capabilities to a host of dignitaries from the Canadian...

Apr 18, 2016
Unmanned Aircraft Launched from UK Royal Navy Icebreaker Vessel

The UK Royal Navy has announced that its ice patrol ship HMS Protector has launched small unmanned aerial aircraft from her...

Apr 15, 2016
DARPA Conducts Successful Sense-and-Avoid System Flight Tests

A research effort associated with DARPA’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program recently conducted the first successful flight tests...

Apr 13, 2016
MMC Launches HyDrone 1800 Hydrogen-Fueled UAV

Micro Multi Copters Aero Technology Co., Inc. (MMC), a developer of VTOL Multirotor UAVs, has announced the launch of the HyDrone...

Apr 12, 2016
AUVSI Releases Interactive Analysis of Commercial UAS Exemptions

The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) has released an interactive analysis on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Section...

Apr 12, 2016
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