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

Michigan State Police Standardizes UAS Program with Aeryon SkyRanger

Aeryon Labs Inc. has announced that the Michigan State Police (MSP) has chosen to standardize its state-wide UAS deployment with...

Oct 27, 2014
ING Robotic Aviation Launch Updated Rapid Wide Area Mapping UAV

ING Robotic Aviation, a Canadian provider of robotic aircraft sensing solutions, has announced the launch of the next version of...

Oct 27, 2014
MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter to Undergo Shipboard Testing

Northrop Grumman have successfully completed precision sloped landing tests with the MQ-8C Fire Scout at Naval Base Ventura County, Point...

Oct 24, 2014
RIEGL Release Video of RiCOPTER UAV Flight Demonstration

RIEGL have released a video of the flight performance of their recently launched RiCOPTER UAV laser scanning system. RiCOPTER is a...

Oct 24, 2014
UAS Europe Releases New Spy Owl 200 Surveillance UAV

UAS Europe has announced the launch of a surveillance version of its flight-proven Spy Owl 200 Unmanned Aircraft System. The...

Oct 24, 2014
Presagis and Ryerson University to Partner on UAV Technologies

Presagis, a provider of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) modeling, simulation, and embedded graphics software, and Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, are...

Oct 23, 2014
Headwall Delivers Imaging Sensors to Columbia University for Climate Change Investigation

Headwall Photonics has delivered two high-performance hyperspectral imaging sensors to Columbia University as part of its Air-Sea-Ice Physics and Biogeochemistry...

Oct 23, 2014
Stark Aerospace Introduces HoverLite Tethered Hovering Aerial ISR System

Stark Aerospace, as part of a rapid research and development effort sponsored by the Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO),...

Oct 23, 2014
Blue Bear and e-Go Announce Partnership at Commercial UAV Show

Blue Bear Systems Research and e-Go aeroplanes have announced their signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the two...

Oct 23, 2014
Scion UAS Successfully Completes SA-400 Jackal Flight Test Program

Scion UAS has completed a series of capability demonstrations of the SA-400 Jackal, an optionally piloted helicopter system. The demonstration...

Oct 21, 2014
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Used to Photograph Killer Whales

For the first time, scientists have used an unmanned aerial vehicle to study killer whales from above. The device they’re...

Oct 21, 2014
Boeing X-37B Unmanned Orbital Vehicle Successfully Completes 3rd Flight

The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has successfully de-orbited and landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, concluding a 674-day...

Oct 20, 2014
Fusion of Manned and Unmanned Aerial Systems Used to Fight California Wildfire

  SkyIMD, a provider of aerial imaging solutions, combined UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and manned aircraft technologies to fight the...

Oct 17, 2014
Alta Devices and Airware to Integrate Solar Power into Small UAVs

Alta Devices has announced cooperation with Airware to enable manufacturers of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to seamlessly integrate solar...

Oct 17, 2014
3D Robotics Launches New UAV 2D and 3D Mapping Platforms

  3D Robotics have announced the launch of their new 3DR Mapping Platforms, consisting of the 3DR X8-M (multi-copter) and...

Oct 17, 2014
Second US Navy Triton UAS Completes First Flight

The U.S. Navy’s second MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has successfully completed its first flight. Operating out of a...

Oct 16, 2014
Formira Fuel Cell Technology to be Integrated into Silent Falcon UAVs

Neah Power Systems, Inc. will be partnering with Silent Falcon UAS Technologies to integrate formic acid reformer-based Formira fuel cell...

Oct 15, 2014
Revolutionary ‘Vortex’ 3D-Printed Multi-Rotor UAV Launched

  Atlanta Hobby has launched the Vortex, an advanced, highly customizable hexacopter platform capable of long flight duration. Designed and...

Oct 15, 2014
Raytheon Demonstrates Integration of JLENS Radar Aerostat into NORAD

Raytheon Company has completed a series of laboratory tests that demonstrated how the JLENS radar can be integrated into North...

Oct 14, 2014
Upgraded Textron Remote Video Terminal Enhances U.S. Army UAS Interoperability

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a Textron Inc. business, has commenced deliveries of the One System® Remote Video Terminal (OSRVT™) -50...

Oct 14, 2014
Exelis Introduces New CorvusEye Sensor With Night Surveillance Capabilities

A new Exelis CorvusEye™ 1500 visible color and infrared (IR) sensor provides day and nighttime wide area airborne surveillance coverage...

Oct 14, 2014
US Navy Grants ARES UAS With Flight Clearance

SHIELD Aviation, Inc. has been granted a Category 3 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Interim Flight Clearance (IFC) for the ARES...

Oct 14, 2014
Airbus Defence and Space Applies for European UAV Civil Certification

Airbus Defence and Space has formally submitted its Atlante unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for civil type certification – the first...

Oct 13, 2014
RIEGL Launches LiDAR-Equipped RiCOPTER Unmanned Aerial System

RIEGL has become the first major LiDAR manufacturer to develop its own unmanned aerial system with the launch of the...

Oct 10, 2014
AeroVironment to Develop New Class of Maritime Unmanned Aircraft System for DARPA

AeroVironment, Inc. and its team of industry leaders has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to...

Oct 10, 2014
Clarion’s UAS 2014 Unmanned Aerial Systems Conference is a Resounding Success

UAS 2014, the leading European conference covering remotely piloted aerial systems attracted around 350 delegates at its highly successful event...

Oct 09, 2014
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