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

AMP to Showcase Rugged PC/104 HD Video Recorder/Streamer at Embedded World

This year Advanced Micro Peripherals (AMP) will be demonstrating their new StreamCorder-HD board at Embedded World 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany....

Jan 28, 2014
SimActive Announces Multiple Sales of Correlator3D™ UAV Photogrammetry Software

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, has announced multiple sales of Correlator3D™ UAV licenses across the world. The...

Jan 28, 2014
GA-ASI, NG Complete Second Demonstration of Unmanned Electronic Attack Capabilities

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems,...

Jan 28, 2014
Unmanned Aircraft Demo Shows Off Warfighting Capabilities

In the past, American warfighters lost their lives to improvised explosive devices (IED) on the battlefield. But now with technological...

Jan 28, 2014
3D Imaging System Integrated on Arcturus T-20 UAV

The GeoDragon sensor system has now been integrated and flown on an Arcturus UAV T-20 Tier II unmanned aerial vehicle....

Jan 24, 2014
Northrop Grumman BAMS-D Unmanned Aircraft Surpasses 10,000 Combat Flying Hours

The Northrop Grumman Corporation built unmanned demonstrator aircraft used for maritime surveillance missions by the U.S. Navy surpassed 10,000 combat...

Jan 24, 2014
API Technologies Receives $1.4M Order for Power Systems

API Technologies Corp., a leading provider of high performance RF/microwave, power, and security solutions for critical and high-reliability applications, has...

Jan 22, 2014
Draganflyer sUAS Available with 3D Terrain Mapping and Modeling Package

Draganfly Innovations has partnered with Pix4D to combine the unique value of a Draganflyer sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial System) with...

Jan 22, 2014
Army Corps, Woolpert Conduct Unmanned Aerial Test Flights

Woolpert, a national geospatial, architecture and infrastructure firm headquartered in Dayton, announced it has conducted an unmanned aerial system (UAS)...

Jan 21, 2014
CAE to provide UAS Mission Trainer to Italian Air Force

CAE has been awarded a contract to provide Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) with an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)...

Jan 21, 2014
DoD Leaders to Convene for Unmanned Systems Summit

With the newly released “DoD Unmanned Systems Roadmap”, Senior Leaders from within OSD, Army, Navy, and Air Force will join...

Jan 21, 2014
Trimble Adds UX5 Unmanned Aircraft System to its Agriculture Portfolio

Trimble has announced the addition of its Trimble® UX5 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to its Agriculture product portfolio for aerial...

Jan 21, 2014
CoroWare Partners With FRST to Develop Control Systems for Unmanned Applications

CoroWare, Inc. has announced that it has established a strategic partnership agreement with FRST, Inc., an Alamogordo, New Mexico based...

Jan 20, 2014
GA-ASI Predator-Series Aircraft Pivotal to Search and Rescue Missions

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc (GA-ASI) has announced that MQ-1 Predator® and Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft successfully supported...

Jan 16, 2014
Sagem Receives Order for Sperwer drones to be deployed by French Army

Sagem (Safran) has received a new order from French defense procurement agency DGA for five additional Sperwer tactical drones (including...

Jan 16, 2014
Unmanned Aircraft Used to Help Identify Subsurface Oil Reservoirs

Unmanned aircraft are being used to recover more of the oil reserves from the North Sea and beyond by studying...

Jan 15, 2014
Epson Partners with Geodetics for Inertial Navigation Systems

Epson Electronics America, Inc. (“EEA”), the world leader in compact, high-performance QMEMS Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), announced today a strategic...

Jan 15, 2014
Draganfly Innovations Introduces Two New Multirotor Helicopters

Draganfly Innovations has launched two new multirotor helicopters, the Shadow and the Guardian. These quadrotor aircraft are built to carry...

Jan 14, 2014
Aeryon Labs Announces Map Edition Bundles for Aeryon sUAS

Aeryon Labs has introduced Map Edition bundles for the Aeryon small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). This new bundled option, available...

Jan 14, 2014
Northrop Grumman’s Hunter UAS Surpasses 100,000 Combat Flight Hours

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), in use with the U.S. Army since 1996, recently surpassed 100,000 combat...

Jan 14, 2014
Airware Completes Anti-Poaching UAV Field Tests in Africa

A team of engineers from Airware recently traveled to Kenya to conduct field tests of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed...

Jan 14, 2014
Global Hawk UAS Achieves Best Safety Record Designation

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has been designated as the platform with the best safety record...

Jan 14, 2014
New Pix4Dmapper Software Provides Extended CAD and GIS Possibilities

Pix4D, a leading provider of professional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) processing software, has launched Pix4Dmapper, a new software package with...

Jan 13, 2014
Engility Awarded $29.6M U.S. Navy Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Program Contract

Engility Holdings, Inc. has been awarded a $29.6 million contract to provide engineering and technology support to the U.S. Navy’s...

Jan 13, 2014
State Department of Transportation Orders LTAS Blimp in a Box Aerostat System

Lighter Than Air Systems Corp. (“LTAS”) has received an order for a Blimp in a Box™ (“BiB”) 100 aerostat system...

Jan 13, 2014
Special Aerospace Services Announces Space Act Agreement With NASA Langley Research Center

Special Aerospace Services (SAS), a leader in aerospace systems engineering solutions, announced today that it has a completed Space Act...

Jan 13, 2014
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