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

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
Drone Aviation to Provide Aerostat to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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

Feb 08, 2016
NASA sends Global Hawk UAS to study El Nino weather patterns

The NASA Global Hawk UAS will conduct several missions to collect detailed data over the Pacific Ocean from complex El...

Feb 08, 2016
Fruity Chutes Launches Parachute Descent Rate Calculator

Fruity Chutes, leading manufacturer of high quality UAV parachute recovery systems, has released a tool that plots the descent rate...

Feb 05, 2016
EagleView Develops Outdoor Drone Research Lab at Rochester Institute of Technology

EagleView Technology Corporation, a provider of aerial imagery technology, data analytics and GIS solutions, has announced that its wholly owned...

Feb 04, 2016
AeroVironment to Provide US Coast Guard Ice Breaker with Puma UAS

AeroVironment, Inc., a manufacturer of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), has announced that it and a team from the National...

Feb 03, 2016
Aerialtronics Adds Collision Avoidance Technology to Zenith UAS

Aerialtronics, a designer and manufacturer of UAV solutions, has developed a sense and avoid system for the Altura Zenith unmanned...

Feb 02, 2016
Bluesky Partners with Cyberhawk for Unmanned Survey & Mapping Services

Bluesky, an aerial mapping company, has announced that it is partnering with airborne inspection and surveying firm Cyberhawk to provide...

Feb 01, 2016
Auburn University Researchers Use UAS to Monitor Crop Health

Auburn University has announced that its precision agriculture researchers are using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to monitor crop health over...

Feb 01, 2016
Flyability Drone Explores Swiss Alps Glacier

Flyability, a developer of collision-resistant drones and the winner of the 2015 UAE Drones for Good Award, has announced that...

Jan 29, 2016
European Aviation Safety Agency Issues Recommendations for UAS Airspace Integration

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has announced that it has issued a technical opinion on the future of unmanned...

Jan 29, 2016
Lufthansa Aerial Services and DJI Team Up to Develop Commercial Drone Applications

Lufthansa Aerial Services, a division of the Lufthansa aviation group, has announced that it has signed a deal with DJI...

Jan 27, 2016
NMC Completes Training at UAV Factory

In anticipation of their Penguin C UAS delivery, NMC has taken part in a comprehensive 15 day training program at...

Jan 26, 2016
Measure UAS and Drone Aviation Partner on WATT-200 Tethered Drone

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, and Measure UAS Inc., a drone operator firm,...

Jan 26, 2016
German Aerospace Center Lands UAV on Moving Car

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have successfully landed UAV Factory’s Penguin BE...

Jan 26, 2016
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