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

MTSI Expands UAS Services into the Commercial UAS Marketplace

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI), a leading systems engineering provider in the Government Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) domain, has announced...

Nov 06, 2013
MtronPTI Introduces New Ultra-Compact Filter Diplexer for UAV Comm Links

MtronPTI, leader in precision frequency control and custom RF/microwave filters, has announced the LF9422 Series L/S Band Filter Diplexer reducing...

Nov 06, 2013
Exelis to Produce MQ-9 Reaper UAS Carriage and Release System

Exelis has been awarded a $20.6 million contract by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. of Poway, Calif., to produce the...

Nov 06, 2013
Rockwell Collins Unveils Simulation and Training Center of Excellence in the UK

Rockwell Collins has unveiled a new simulation and training center of excellence in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, U.K. The company...

Nov 06, 2013
CyPhy Works Raises $7 Million to Build Flying Robots

CyPhy Works, a leading developer of advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), today announced the close of a $7 million financing...

Nov 06, 2013
Arcturus Integrates WGS Europa-S SIGINT System on T-20 UAV

The Europa-S Signal Intercept and Geolocation System, built by WGS Systems in Frederick, Maryland, has now been integrated and flown...

Nov 04, 2013
Aitech Launch Rugged GPGPU for C4ISR, Advanced Sensor Processing

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true rugged embedded and mission critical computing technologies, has released a 3U VPX...

Nov 04, 2013
ING Robotic Aviation, iFMS to Showcase Serenity UAS at International Forestry Convention

ING Robotic Aviation will showcase their fixed wing robotic aircraft system, Serenity, in collaboration with iFMS, at this years 2013...

Nov 04, 2013
Northrop Grumman, Triumph Aerostructures Demonstrate Triton UAS Wing Strength

Northrop Grumman Corp. and Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division, have successfully demonstrated the structural strength of the U.S. Navy’s...

Nov 04, 2013
Video: Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout First Flight

The Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter successfully completed its first flight on Oct. 31 from Naval Base Ventura...

Nov 04, 2013
Next-Generation MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter Completes First Flight

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy successfully completed the first flight of the next-generation MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter...

Nov 01, 2013
CybAero to Supply Additional Subsystems for Cassidian Tanan 300 VTOL UAV

CybAero has received an order from Cassidian, a subsidary of EADS, to supply subsystems for use on the Tanan 300...

Oct 31, 2013
GA-ASI Demonstrates Predator B’s Electronic Attack capability

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed a second demonstration of Predator® B’s Electronic Attack capability, conducted at the...

Oct 31, 2013
KVH Introduces DSP-1760 Multi-axis Fiber Optic Gyro

KVH Industries, Inc. has introduced a new multi-axis fiber optic gyro (FOG), the DSP-1760. The breakthrough design of the DSP-1760,...

Oct 30, 2013
New Profile for LORD MicroStrain: Inertial Sensors, DVRTs & Wireless Sensor Networks

LORD MicroStrain, who design and manufacture a wide range of inertial sensors, DVRTs and wireless sensor network solutions, has a...

Oct 30, 2013
FreeWave Technologies Hosts Local Unmanned Systems Education And Networking Event

FreeWave Technologies, the innovator in industrial-grade secure M2M wireless networking solutions, will host an unmanned systems event at its Boulder,...

Oct 29, 2013
Elbit Skylark I-LE Mini-UAS Tested with Imint Vidview Software

The Swedish software company Imint and the Israeli Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) provider Elbit Systems UAS division field tested new software in...

Oct 29, 2013
Pentek Introduces Wideband Software Radio Module for UAV, Radar and Communications Applications

Pentek, Inc., has announced the newest member of its highly popular Onyx® family of high-speed data converter XMC FPGA modules:...

Oct 29, 2013
Carbon by Design Releases Carbon Fiber UAV Case Product Line

Carbon by Design, manufacturer of Small UAV systems and Structures, has delivered the first in a series of Carbon Fiber...

Oct 28, 2013
AeroVironment and Eurocopter To Explore Joint Opportunities for Expanding Product Portfolios, Markets and Capabilities

AeroVironment, Inc., the world’s highest volume manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), and Eurocopter, the leading global helicopter manufacturer, announced...

Oct 25, 2013
Mercury Systems to Supply High-Performance Digital Signal Processing Modules for Unmanned SAR Application

Mercury Systems, Inc., a best-of-breed provider of commercially developed, open sensor and Big Data processing systems for critical commercial, defense...

Oct 24, 2013
GA-ASI Gray Eagle UAS Completes 20,000 Automated Takeoffs and Landings

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

Oct 24, 2013
U.S. Air Force RPAs Reach 2 Million Flight Hours

The U.S. Air Force’s MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft accumulated 2 million flight hours Oct. 22, not...

Oct 24, 2013
Aerovel’s Flexrotor UAS Completes Autonomous Flights from Unmanned Boat

The newest aircraft carrier does not have acres of flight deck. In fact it has no deck at all. Its...

Oct 24, 2013
Aurora Wins DARPA TERN Program Contract Award

Aurora Flight Sciences has been as awarded a $2,811,232 contract by the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) for the...

Oct 23, 2013
New Profile for Simlat: UAS Training & Simulation Solutions

Israel-based Simlat Ltd, who provide high-end, state-of-the-art training systems and simulators for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Unmanned Aerial...

Oct 23, 2013
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