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

KSU Salina and Westar Energy Build UAS Pavilion Flight Facility

Kansas State University Salina and industry partner Westar Energy have announced the creation of a new flight facility dedicated to...

Oct 20, 2015
Sentera Announces Agricultural Imagery Upgrade for Phantom 3 UAS

Sentera LLC, a designer and manufacturer of drones and related equipment, has announced that it has developed an add-on to...

Oct 20, 2015
General Atomics Awarded US Army Contract for Improved Gray Eagle UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), has announced that it has been awarded a...

Oct 19, 2015
Indra Announces Unmanned Maritime Reconnaissance and Intelligence Aircraft

Indra, a Spanish defense systems company, has announced that it has presented the unmanned version of its P2006T MRI maritime...

Oct 16, 2015
Thales Watchkeeper UAS Successfully Flies in UK Civil Airspace

Thales has announced that its Watchkeeper Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has successfully flown alongside commercial manned aircraft in controlled civil...

Oct 16, 2015
Lockheed Martin and KAMAN Demonstrate Unmanned Helicopter Firefighting Capability

The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced that Lockheed Martin and KAMAN Corporation have demonstrated how the remotely piloted...

Oct 15, 2015
AeroVironment to Supply Raven UAS to Seven Allied Nations

AeroVironment, Inc., a manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has announced that it has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract from...

Oct 14, 2015
General Atomics Tests Advanced Communications System Aboard Predator B

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, has announced the successful flight of...

Oct 14, 2015
Lockheed Martin Unveils “ICARUS” Counter-UAS System

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new capability at the annual Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting (AUSA), that...

Oct 13, 2015
FAA and CACI International to Collaborate on UAS Detection Near Airports

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it has entered into a partnership with CACI International, an information technology...

Oct 08, 2015
US Army Engineers Demonstrate Anti-Drone Technology

The US Army has announced that it has successfully demonstrated its latest counter-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) technology, shooting down two...

Oct 08, 2015
IMSAR to Launch Collision-Avoidance Radar for Small UAS

IMSAR LLC, a developer of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) devices and radar image processing technology, has announced that its family...

Oct 07, 2015
AirMap Technology Used to Co-Ordinate Drones and Crop Dusters

UAS Colorado, a non-profit business league that promotes the aerospace industry in Colorado, and the Colorado Agricultural Aviation Association (CAAA)...

Oct 07, 2015
Draganfly Innovations Launches ‘Draganflyer Commander’ UAV

Commercial UAV specialists Draganfly Innovations Inc. – the wholly-owned commercial division of TRACE Live Network – has announced the launch...

Oct 07, 2015
Cyberhawk Launches Commercial UAV Wind Turbine Inspection Service

Cyberhawk Innovations, a provider of aerial inspection and surveying services using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has announced that it has...

Oct 07, 2015
Draganfly Launches Suite of Professionally Piloted Commercial UAV Services

Draganfly Innovations Inc., a developer of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced the launch of a new suite of...

Oct 05, 2015
Textron Systems Aerosonde UAS Supports Wildfire Deterrence and Response

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a developer of unmanned vehicle technologies, has announced that the company has provided its equipment and...

Oct 01, 2015
BrockTek UAS Now Available from Unmanned Systems Source

The fixed wing product offering at Unmanned Systems Source now includes BrockTek’s line of aerial vehicles. The new partnership took...

Oct 01, 2015
Australian Navy to Trial ViDAR Payload for UAS Operations

Sentient, a developer of computer vision technologies, has announced that the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has procured a license for...

Sep 30, 2015
New UAV Training School Opens in UK

UAV Air, a new drone training school based in the UK, has announced its opening. The school is the brainchild...

Sep 29, 2015
3W International Announces Complete UAV Engine System Service

3W International, a developer of Heavy Fuel engines for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) industry, has announced that the company...

Sep 29, 2015
AgustaWestland Completes Unmanned Helicopter Concept Platform for UK MoD

AgustaWestland, a designer and manufacturer of helicopters, has announced that it has completed the UK Ministry of Defence’s Rotary Wing...

Sep 29, 2015
RTI’s New DO-178C Certification Package Will Reduce Cost of Certifying Unmanned Avionics Systems

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things connectivity platform company, has announced the availability of a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) DO-178C Level...

Sep 29, 2015
SteadiDrone Integrates Propeller’s Advanced Aerial Data Processing Service into sUAS

SteadiDrone, a developer and manufacturer of advanced small unmanned aerial systems for commercial and industrial applications, has teamed up with...

Sep 29, 2015
GA-ASI to Open RPA Training Academy in 2016

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission...

Sep 28, 2015
NASA and Partners Complete Third Phase of UAS Detect-and-Avoid Testing

NASA has announced that, along with several of its industry partners, it has completed the third phase of tests on...

Sep 25, 2015
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