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

UNICEF and Malawi Government Test UAV Flights for Blood Sample Transportation

UNICEF has announced that, in conjunction with the Government of Malawi, it has begun testing the use of Unmanned Aerial...

Mar 14, 2016
UAE Armed Forces Orders 8 Piaggio HammerHead UAVs

The General Headquarters of the United Arab Emirates Armed Force (GHQ) has agreed a contract with Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems...

Mar 14, 2016
Maersk Tankers Successfully Completes Drone Delivery to Vessel at Sea

Maersk Tankers has announced that it has successfully completed what the company claims is the first drone delivery to a...

Mar 11, 2016
ATLAS Flight Test Center to Develop Agricultural Security UAS Project

The Andalusian Foundation for Aerospace Development (FADA) has announced that it has begun to develop, through the ATLAS Flight Test...

Mar 11, 2016
Intelsat General and L-3 Successfully Demo Automatic Satellite Beam Switching for UAS

Intelsat General Corporation (IGC), a satellite network operator, and L-3 Communication Systems-West (L-3 CS-West), a provider of networked communication solutions,...

Mar 10, 2016
Tekever Launches New Version of AR3 Net Ray Maritime UAS

The Tekever Group, a developer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has announced that it will be launching a new version...

Mar 10, 2016
US DoD Awards Contract to Drone Aviation for WASP Tactical Aerostat System

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

Mar 10, 2016
3D Robotics and Autodesk to Develop UAV-to-Cloud Data Capture Solution

3D Robotics, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and Autodesk, a developer of 3D design software, have announced that...

Mar 07, 2016
Northrop Grumman’s AHRS Navigation System used on nEUROn UCAV Demonstrator

Northrop Grumman Corporation, in cooperation with Saab Aerosystems, has provided the Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) for the nEUROn...

Mar 07, 2016
DARPA Selects Aurora for Phase 2 of VTOL X-Plane Program

Aurora Flight Sciences, a designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects...

Mar 04, 2016
Olaeris Unveils Unmanned Multirotor Aircraft with 5 Hour Flight Time

Olaeris, a developer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has unveiled AEVA, a new unmanned aircraft with a 4-5 hour flight...

Mar 03, 2016
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
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