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

DJI Launches Phantom 4 Quadcopter Drone with Advanced Sensing and Computer Vision

DJI, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, has announced the launch of its new Phantom 4 drone, which the company...

Mar 01, 2016
“Predator B ER” UAS Completes First Flight with Long Wings

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), a manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) and related mission systems solutions, has announced...

Feb 29, 2016
Straight Up Imaging Launches “Endurance” VTOL UAV

Straight Up Imaging, an aerospace technology firm, has announced the launch of its new multi-rotor unmanned aircraft, the Endurance. The...

Feb 29, 2016
NASA Develops New Communication & Control Technology for Unmanned Aircraft

NASA has announced that it has developed technology that may enable unmanned aircraft to fly safely in the national airspace...

Feb 26, 2016
Northrop Grumman Successfully Integrates Legacy Sensor with Global Hawk UAS

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that it has successfully flown a SYERS-2 intelligence gathering sensor on an RQ-4 Global Hawk...

Feb 26, 2016
Cloud Seeding UAS Test Flight is a Success

A team of Nevada scientists and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) engineers have successfully flight tested the first-ever autonomous cloud seeding...

Feb 25, 2016
FAA to Establish UAS Aviation Rulemaking Committee

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it is establishing an aviation rulemaking committee with...

Feb 24, 2016
EnergyOr Technologies and French Air Force Sign Joint Development Agreement

EnergyOr Technologies, a developer of advanced PEM fuel cell systems for aerospace applications, has announced that it has signed a...

Feb 24, 2016
Raven and AgEagle Partner to Provide UAS Agriculture Solutions

Raven Industries, a developer of precision agriculture equipment, has announced that its Applied Technology division has been named the worldwide...

Feb 23, 2016
FAA Tests SkyTracker’s UAS Tracking Capabilities

Recently, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) partnered with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and CACI International to explore how...

Feb 23, 2016
AT&T And Intel to Test Unmanned Aircraft on LTE Network

AT&T and Intel have announced that the two firms plan to test how Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) work on LTE,...

Feb 22, 2016
Sentient Vision Tests ViDAR Optical Detection System Aboard ScanEagle UAV

Sentient Vision, a developer of computer vision software solutions, has announced that it has performed a three-day trial of its...

Feb 22, 2016
UK MoD Orders Two Solar-Powered Pseudo-Satellite Zephyrs

Airbus Defence and Space has won an order from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) for the manufacture and operation...

Feb 22, 2016
uAvionix and Dronecode Foundation to Collaborate on Drone Sense & Avoid Technology

uAvionix Corporation, a developer of unmanned ADS-B technology, and Dronecode, a nonprofit organization developing an open source platform for Unmanned...

Feb 19, 2016
Spanish Ministry of Defense to Acquire Predator B UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems and related mission systems solutions, has announced...

Feb 19, 2016
H3 Dynamics Launches DRONEBOX for Fully Automated UAV Operations

H3 Dynamics has unveiled DRONEBOX, a unique system that converges professional drone-enabled service activities with the Industrial Internet of Things....

Feb 19, 2016
US Army Selects 3D Printed UAS Concept for Expeditionary Warrior Experiment

The U.S. Army has announced that it has selected an On-Demand Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems project for inclusion in its...

Feb 18, 2016
Simulyze Announces Real-Time UAS Situational Awareness Software

Simulyze, Inc., a provider of operational intelligence (OI) technology and applications, has announced the launch of Mission Insight, its next-generation...

Feb 17, 2016
Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton UAS Completes Operational Assessment

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that its MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS), built for the U.S. Navy, has successfully...

Feb 17, 2016
DARPA Confirms First FLA Flight Tests are a Success

The initial phase of data collection for DARPA’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program has been deemed an encouraging success. During...

Feb 16, 2016
Elbit Systems Announces Skylark 3 Mini-UAS

Elbit Systems, a defense technology firm, has announced the Skylark 3, a new autonomous mini-Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), best suited...

Feb 12, 2016
DroneDeploy Launches iOS Flight App for Aerial Data Capture

DroneDeploy, a developer of cloud software for commercial drones, has announced the launch of its free iOS flight app to...

Feb 11, 2016
Cella Energy Solid Hydrogen Fuelled UAV Completes First Flight

Cella Energy, a developer of hydrogen storage technologies, has announced that its new hydrogen-fuelled battery replacement system has successfully powered...

Feb 11, 2016
Bristow Group Invests in Sky-Futures Drone Inspection Services

Bristow Group Inc., a provider of offshore helicopter services, and Sky-Futures, a provider of drone inspection services for the oil...

Feb 10, 2016
Northrop Grumman Battlefield Airborne Communications Node Completes 100,000 Flight Hours

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that its Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), developed for the U.S. Air Force, has achieved...

Feb 09, 2016
Detect and Avoid System Demonstrated on CAMCOPTER UAS

Schiebel, the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), the Netherlands Coastguard and the Royal Netherlands Air Force successfully conducted a series of...

Feb 09, 2016
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