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

The Commercial UAV Show to Host European Launch of UST Magazine

Unmanned Systems Technology (UST) magazine’s official European launch will take place at The Commercial UAV Show in London from 21-22...

Sep 26, 2014
MQ-4C Triton UAS Completes First Cross-Country Flight, Enters Next Phase of Testing

The first U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has completed a flight from California to Maryland. The UAS...

Sep 24, 2014
Lockheed Martin Awarded $18m Contract to Support U.S. Marine Corps Air Operations System

The battle command system used by the Marines to manage and monitor airborne platforms, including fighters, bombers, tankers, unmanned aerial...

Sep 24, 2014
Logos Technologies Authorized by FAA to Conduct UAS Flight Testing in New York

Logos Technologies has received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to begin flight-testing of the unmanned Tactically Expandable Maritime...

Sep 23, 2014
Moog, Inc: High Performance Guidance, Navigation & Control Solutions for Unmanned Vehicles

Moog, Inc has a new supplier profile on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com, which highlights the company’s expertise and capabilities within the unmanned systems...

Sep 16, 2014
Orbital Delivers First ScanEagle UAV Engine to Insitu

Orbital Corporation Limited (Orbital) has delivered the first purpose-built ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) propulsion system to Insitu Inc, a...

Sep 16, 2014
Boeing Partners With Sky-Watch to Develop New VTOL UAV

Boeing and Danish company Sky-Watch have signed an agreement that will enable Boeing to explore assisting the company in its...

Sep 16, 2014
Airware and NASA to Develop UAS Traffic Management System

Airware has partnered with NASA to develop a UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system that will enable safe and efficient low-altitude...

Sep 16, 2014
USAF Adds Three More RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS to Fleet

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $354 million primarily firm-fixed-price contract to expand their RQ-4 Global...

Sep 16, 2014
Navy Integrates Common Control System Software Into UCLASS System

NAVAIR engineers recently installed new software for the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) system’s control station at...

Sep 14, 2014
Unmanned X-47B Completes First Night Time Deck Handling and Taxi Tests

The Navy’s X-47B completed its final test aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Aug. 24 and returned to its home...

Sep 09, 2014
Delair-Tech Partners With PIX4D and Releases New UAV Packages

Delair-Tech is excited to announce their partnership with Pix4D and the release of seven new UAV system packages. Each of...

Sep 09, 2014
SBG Systems Launches Ellipse Series Miniature Inertial Sensors

SBG Systems has released the Ellipse Series, a brand new range of miniature inertial systems replacing the IG-500 Series. For...

Sep 03, 2014
Velodyne Breaks LiDAR Sensor Price Barrier with Sub $8k 3D Real-Time ‘LiDAR Puck’

In a bid to dramatically expand the use of 3D LiDAR sensors in robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles and automation applications,...

Sep 03, 2014
microdrones VTOL UAVs Aid Rescue Efforts After Floods

Rescue teams have been using md4-1000 Quadrocopters, developed by Germany-based microdrones GmbH, following recent flooding and landslides in Serbia and...

Sep 02, 2014
Research Students Test UAV Autonomous Mission Control System

A team of research students and staff from Warsaw University of Technology have successfully demonstrated the first phase of flight...

Sep 01, 2014
GA-ASI Radar Detects Maritime Targets from Airborne Reaper UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, a leading manufacturer of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optical and related mission systems...

Sep 01, 2014
U.S. Coast Guard & NOAA Evaluate Puma UAS During Arctic Exercise

Scientists at the Coast Guard Research and Development Center, based in New London, Connecticut, have a long history of studying...

Sep 01, 2014
Topcon & MAVinci Release Aerial Mapping UAS

Topcon Positioning Group has announced the worldwide availability of two unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for mapping — the Sirius Pro...

Sep 01, 2014
ING Robotic Aviation Increases Responder UAS Flight Time

The flight time of Responder, a rotary wing robotic aircraft system, has been upgraded from 25 minutes to 40 minutes,...

Aug 29, 2014
SimActive Releases New GPU-Based Orthorectification Module

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce Correlator3D™ version 5.3, with significantly faster orthorectification. The...

Aug 28, 2014
INL Selects RT Logic to Demo Common Data Link for SUAS

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its RT Logic subsidiary has been selected by Idaho National Laboratory...

Aug 28, 2014
Drone Aviation Delivers ISR Systems to U.S. Army

Drone Aviation Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of Drone Aviation Holding Corp, a developer of specialized tethered drones and lighter-than-air...

Aug 27, 2014
Schiebel Camcopter UAS Helps Refugees in the Mediterranean Sea

Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS is being used to identify refugee boats in distress in the Mediterranean Sea. The Migrant Offshore...

Aug 27, 2014
Global Hawk UAS Variants Exceed 100,000 Combat/Operational Support Hours

Two U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Northrop Grumman Corporation’s high altitude long endurance (HALE)...

Aug 27, 2014
Scion UAS Demonstrate Autonomous Takeoff and Landing on a Moving Platform

Scion UAS raised the bar on unmanned aerial system (UAS) capabilities by demonstrating autonomous takeoff and landing from a moving...

Aug 26, 2014
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