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

AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma UAS Tested Aboard USS Gonzalez

The US Navy has announced that it has tested AeroVironment‘s RQ-20 Puma unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aboard the destroyer USS...

Sep 25, 2015
Airbus Defence and Space Announces Long-Range Counter-UAV System

Airbus Defence and Space has announced that it has developed a Counter-UAV System which detects illicit intrusions of Unmanned Aerial...

Sep 23, 2015
Sagem and AOI-Aircraft Factory to Collaborate on Drones for Egyptian Defense Market

Sagem, a part of aerospace and defense company Safran, has announced that it has signed an exclusive commercial and industrial...

Sep 23, 2015
DARPA Demonstrates New Adaptive Robotic Landing Gear for Helicopters

DARPA has announced that it has conducted a successful experimental demonstration of a novel robotic landing gear system designed for...

Sep 22, 2015
Aeryon Labs and Protonex to Develop In-Field Charging Solution for SkyRanger UAS

Aeryon Labs Inc., a provider of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), and Protonex Technology Corporation, a developer of intelligent power...

Sep 21, 2015
Skyward Launches Information Management Solution for Commercial Drone Operators

Skyward, a provider of drone operations solutions, has announced the introduction of its information management solution, which the firm claims...

Sep 18, 2015
Lockheed Martin Awarded Desert Hawk 3 UAS Contract by UK MoD

Lockheed Martin has announced that the U.K. Ministry of Defence has awarded the company a contract to support the Desert...

Sep 18, 2015
Thales Announces Watchkeeper X Modular UAS

Thales, an aerospace and defense firm, has announced its new modular Watchkeeper X unmanned aerial system (UAS). Watchkeeper X is...

Sep 17, 2015
Selex ES Announces Falcon Shield Counter-UAV System

Selex ES, an aerospace and defense technology firm, has unveiled its new Counter-Unmanned Air Vehicle (C-UAV) system, named Falcon Shield....

Sep 16, 2015
MQ-9 Reaper Extended Range Unmanned Aircraft Fielded by USAF

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, has announced that its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper...

Sep 16, 2015
Aeryon Partners with TrellisWare to Integrate TSM Technology with Skyranger sUAS

Aeryon Labs, a provider of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for military, public safety and commercial operators, has announced that...

Sep 15, 2015
NASA Global Hawk to Improve Hurricane Forecasting in Atlantic Ocean Basin

Cherokee Nation Technologies (CNT), a tribally owned company of the Cherokee Nation, has announced that it is working alongside the...

Sep 10, 2015
Laflamme Aero and RAAS Undertake UAV Research and Development Project

Roy Aircraft and Avionic Simulation, Inc (RAAS), a developer of modelling and simulation tools for the aerospace market, and Laflamme...

Sep 10, 2015
Avio Aero Joins Platform for Unmanned Cargo Aircraft Group

Avio Aero, a subsidiary of GE Aviation, has announced that it has become an official member of the Platform for...

Sep 09, 2015
FAA Releases B4UFLY Unmanned Aircraft App Beta Test

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it has released the beta version of a new smartphone application called...

Sep 08, 2015
DARPA Announces “Gremlins” UAS Program

For decades, U.S. military air operations have relied on increasingly capable multi-function manned aircraft to execute critical combat and non-combat...

Sep 08, 2015
Naval Postgraduate School Engineering Laboratory Simultaneously Flies 50 UAVs

The US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Laboratory (ARSENL) has announced that it has flown 50 autonomous...

Sep 08, 2015
DeTect HARRIER Air Surveillance Radar Installed at ATLAS UAS Flight Center

DeTect, Inc., a radar engineering company, has announced that its HARRIER S200d Air Surveillance Radar (ASR) has been installed at...

Sep 05, 2015
Drone Aviation Corp to Collaborate with Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership

Drone Aviation Holding Corp. (DAC), a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that The Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership...

Sep 02, 2015
WB Electronics and Thales Unveil Polish Gryf UAS

WB Electronics and Thales have unveiled their exclusive tactical unmanned aircraft system for the Polish Gryf requirement. The WB Electronics/Thales...

Sep 02, 2015
ScanEagle UAS Demonstrates Wildfire Monitoring Capabilities

While more than 625,000 acres of wildfires burned throughout the Pacific Northwest, crew members of the Insitu Rapid Response team...

Sep 02, 2015
ARCA Space Corporation to Partner with Spaceport America for Space Launch and UAS Testing

Spaceport America, a purpose-built commercial spaceport, has announced that ARCA Space Corporation, a manufacturer of space vehicles and unmanned aircraft, has...

Sep 01, 2015
Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered UAV to Attempt 300km Flight

Horizon Energy Systems (HES), a developer of high-performance fuel cells, has announced that one of the company’s fuel cells will...

Sep 01, 2015
NASA to Install Locata Network at UAS Research Center

Locata Corporation, a developer of terrestrial positioning networks, has announced that NASA plans to install a Locata network (LocataNet) as...

Aug 31, 2015
Orbital Receives Insitu Order for UAV Engines and Propulsion Systems

Orbital Corporation Limited (“Orbital” or “the Company”) has received an order valued at US$9.7 million (A$12 million) from Insitu Inc....

Aug 28, 2015
Pearson Sponsors Ocean Alliance to Study Whales with Drones

Pearson, the publishing and education company, has announced that it is partnering with the Ocean Alliance and the Olin College...

Aug 28, 2015
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