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

Boston Engineering Receives USAF Grant to Improve UAV Motor Control

Boston Engineering, an engineering consultancy company, has announced that it has been awarded a $150,000 contract by the U.S. Air...

Aug 28, 2015
Northwest UAV Concludes Flight Testing with NW-44 Engine

Northwest UAV (NWUAV), a developer of propulsion systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, has announced the completion of over 100 hours...

Aug 28, 2015
PRENAV Announces High-Precision Commercial Drone System

PRENAV, a startup technology company, has announced that it is developing a precision drone system with centimetre-level accuracy for infrastructure...

Aug 27, 2015
US Navy and Northrop Grumman Test Endurance of MQ-8C Fire Scout

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that, in conjunction with the U.S. Navy, it has successfully demonstrated endurance capabilities with the...

Aug 26, 2015
NASA Chooses UASUSA Tempest Drone to Monitor Wildfires and Swamp Algae

UASUSA, a manufacturer of small electric unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and developer of complete UAV-based solutions, has announced that its...

Aug 25, 2015
Trimble Announces New ZX5 Multirotor UAS for Mapping and Inspection

Trimble has announced the release of its new ZX5 Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), an aerial imaging and workflow solution...

Aug 25, 2015
U.S. Army Upgrades AeroVironment RQ-11B Raven UAS

The U.S. Army confirmed last week that selected units had received an upgrade to their RQ-11B Raven UAS, to include...

Aug 25, 2015
Mitsui Chemicals POLYMETAC to be Used in New Lightweight UAV Frames

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. has announced that the company’s unique metal resin integral technology, POLYMETAC, has been selected for use in...

Aug 24, 2015
Drone Aviation WASP Aerostat Completes DoD Enterprise Challenge

Drone Aviation Holding Corp. (DAC), a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that its U.S. Army-owned WASP...

Aug 24, 2015
AeroVironment’s RQ-11B Raven UAS to be used by Spanish MOD

AeroVironment, Inc. has received a contract from the United States Army totaling $3.4 million for RQ-11B Raven® unmanned aircraft systems...

Aug 21, 2015
Remote GeoSystems Adds DJI Inspire 1 UAV Support to LineVision Recording Software

Remote GeoSystems, Inc., a developer of Geospatial Full Motion Video (FMV) recording solutions, has announced that it has added direct...

Aug 20, 2015
Aero Kinetics and GridMeNow to Develop On-Demand UAS Technology

Aero Kinetics, an aerospace and defense firm, has announced a partnership with GridMeNow, a developer of a mobile platform that...

Aug 20, 2015
National Science Foundation Awards $6 Million Grant for Meteorological UAVs

The University of Kentucky has announced that, along with Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, and University of Nebraska, it...

Aug 19, 2015
RQ-4 Global Hawk Demonstrates Advanced Mission Management & Control Capabilities

Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully demonstrated mission management control features that create more unmanned aircraft system (UAS) versatility and efficiencies....

Aug 18, 2015
EC-SAFEMOBIL Project Achieves First Tethered UAV Landing on Mobile Platform

The Centre for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (FADA-CATEC) has announced that its EC-SAFEMOBIL project has achieved the first tethered landing of...

Aug 17, 2015
American University of Sharjah Conducts First Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered UAV Flight in UAE

The American University of Sharjah (AUS) has announced that a team of researchers from its Department of Mechanical Engineering has...

Aug 17, 2015
Routescene and Hanseatic Aviation Solutions Develop LiDAR Mapping UAV

Routescene, a developer of 3D LiDAR technologies, and Hanseatic Aviation Solutions, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have announced...

Aug 12, 2015
WSU and Digital Harvest to Test Unmanned Helicopter for Rainwater Removal

Washington State University has announced that it is partnering with Digital Harvest Corp., a provider of agricultural unmanned aircraft solutions, to...

Aug 12, 2015
ScanEagle UAS Completes Arctic Search and Rescue Demonstration

Insitu, a designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has conducted flight operations for the U.S. Coast Guard, launching...

Aug 11, 2015
University of Nevada and Partners to Work on NASA UAS Traffic Management Project

Researchers at the University of Nevada have announced that they are working on a new, low-altitude traffic management system to...

Aug 10, 2015
DJI Announces Phantom 3 Standard Photography Drone for Beginner Pilots

DJI, a manufacturer of aerial robotics systems, has announced that it has released the Phantom 3 Standard, a new flying...

Aug 06, 2015
AGCO Announces New Agricultural Field Mapping Drone

AGCO Corporation, a manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, has announced the release of the company’s new Solo AGCO Edition...

Aug 05, 2015
AtlantikSolar UAV Sets New Flight Endurance World Record

ETH Zurich, a Swiss engineering and technology university, has announced that the AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), developed by the...

Aug 04, 2015
Lockheed Martin Announces Flight Service for UAS

Lockheed Martin has announced that it has deployed the first components of a UAS traffic management (UTM) system that has...

Aug 04, 2015
National Agricultural Aviation Association Launches UAV Safety Campaign

The National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) has announced that it has launched a UAV safety campaign to raise awareness and...

Jul 31, 2015
US Army 3rd Cavalry Regiment Trains with AeroVironment Raven UAVs

The US Army’s 3rd Cavalry Regiment has announced that its members have trained in the use of the RQ-11B Raven...

Jul 30, 2015
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