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

Engineering-Focused Unmanned Systems Technology Magazine to Launch Nov 2014

UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com, the online reference site showcasing innovative technologies within unmanned applications, will launch a new print publication in November 2014....

Jul 02, 2014
CybAero Wins Contract to Supply Unmanned Helicopters to China

First North-listed CybAero, which develops and sells unmanned helicopters, has received an order guarantee worth SEK 700-800 million through an...

Jul 02, 2014
High Performance SDI500 Tactical Grade Quartz MEMS IMU Selected for Two Weapons Programs

Systron Donner Inertial (SDI) has announced that its high performance, technically mature SDI500 tactical grade Quartz MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit...

Jul 02, 2014
French Air Force Successfully Pilot Harfang MALE UAS From Different Bases

A Harfang UAS belonging to the French Air Force (FAF) controlled by a crew from the French Military Flight Test...

Jun 30, 2014
Lockheed Martin To Enhance U.S. Navy C4ISR Data Exchange Capabilities

Lockheed Martin will work to enhance how the Navy exchanges C4ISR data throughout the space, air, surface, subsurface, and unmanned...

Jun 30, 2014
MEMSIC Launches High-Performance IMU Solutions for Unmanned Systems

MEMSIC Inc., a provider of sensing solutions for unmanned systems and robotic applications, has announced the availability of the first...

Jun 27, 2014
Rockwell Collins and NASA Plan Tests to Integrate UAS in National Airspace

Rockwell Collins and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have scheduled risk reduction tests that will eventually enable unmanned...

Jun 24, 2014
U.S. Army’s JLENS Radar Aerostat Ready for Deployment

Should the U.S. or its allies need enhanced protection against cruise missiles, hostile airplanes, sea-borne threats or unmanned aircraft, military...

Jun 24, 2014
CPI to Supply Airborne Data Links For Global Hawk UAS

The Malibu Division of Communications & Power Industries LLC (CPI) has been selected by an international defense technologies company to...

Jun 24, 2014
Royal Navy Completes First Flight of ScanEagle UAS

Just 7 months after the Ministry of Defence ordered the system from Boeing Defence UK, footage released today, 22 June,...

Jun 23, 2014
Thales Brings Together French Watchkeeper Team

Thales brought together the French SMEs that make up its Watchkeeper France Team at Eurosatory 2014 last week. The team...

Jun 23, 2014
Aero Surveillance & Robot Aviation Partner to Develop New Long Endurance UAS

Aero Surveillance has announced a new technical and marketing partnership with Robot Aviation to jointly develop and market an advanced...

Jun 19, 2014
Engility Subsidiary Awarded Task Orders to Support USAF Unmanned Aircraft Program

Engility Holdings, Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) has been awarded modifications to two task...

Jun 19, 2014
WASP Aerostat Systems Successfully Utilized in U.S. Army’s NIE

Drone Aviation Corp. (“DAC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a developer of specialized lighter-than-air aerostats and...

Jun 19, 2014
Fire Scout UAS Fitted With New Maritime Surface Search Radar

An MQ-8 Fire Scout UAS completed its first flight with a new multimode maritime surface search radar on June 16 at Webster Field...

Jun 17, 2014
FAA Approves AAAI’s RS-16 UAS to Fly in New Jersey and Texas

American Aerospace Advisors, Inc. (AAAI), a revolutionary Unmanned Systems and Services company that specializes in performing safe, successful and affordable...

Jun 17, 2014
Sagem Tests Optronics Multi-Sensor Payload on Tactical Patroller UAS

Sagem (Safran) has tested and successfully integrated a new generation optronics multi-sensors suite on its Patroller endurance UAS. Tested in...

Jun 17, 2014
Rubb Introduce New Military UAV Storage Hangar

Rubb Buildings Ltd (Rubb) have unveiled the latest addition to their Expeditionary Forces Aircraft Shelter System (EFASS) range at Eurosatory...

Jun 17, 2014
Scopustech Launches 360° Spherical Vision System for Unmanned Systems

A new real-time spherical vision system for defense and homeland security that produces and records spherical movies over an area...

Jun 16, 2014
NuWaves Wins NASA Contract to Develop C-Band Power Amplifier for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

NuWaves Engineering, an international Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave solutions provider, has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation...

Jun 13, 2014
Aeronautics Launches Orbiter 2B Mini UAS

Aeronautics – a leader in the development, manufacture, and marketing of state-of-the-art unmanned systems for land, sea and air, integrating...

Jun 12, 2014
Sky Sapience Introduce New Autonomous Tethered Hovering Platform for Small Vehicles

Sky Sapience – a leading developer of mobile, tethered, hovering platforms – will introduce the unique, HoverMast-100 hovering system for...

Jun 12, 2014
BP Selects AeroVironment’s Puma AE UAS for GIS Services

AeroVironment has announced that BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., selected the company to provide mapping, Geographic Information System (GIS) and other...

Jun 11, 2014
Fire Scout UAS Flies Simultaneously With Manned Sea Hawk Helicopter

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy successfully flew the unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout simultaneously with the MH-60R Sea Hawk...

Jun 11, 2014
Schiebel Demonstrates Camcopter S-100 VTOL UAS to Brazilian Navy

Schiebel’s dedication to the maritime domain and its ability to respond to the evolving unmanned systems requirements lead to a...

Jun 10, 2014
FAA Announces Nevada UAS Test Site Now Operational

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today announced that the State of Nevada’s unmanned aircraft systems test site...

Jun 10, 2014
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.