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

Sparton Releases Improved Attitude and Heading Systems

Sparton Navigation and Exploration has released its improved gyro enhanced attitude and heading measurement system, the GEDC-6E, and the enhanced...

Nov 19, 2013
UAV Solutions Debuts Phoenix 30 VTOL UAS

UAV Solutions, Inc. has debuted its new Phoenix 30 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) at Secured Cities 2013 which was held...

Nov 19, 2013
Arotech to Develop Battery Chargers For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Arotech Corporation‘s Battery and Power Systems Division has received orders in excess of $700,000 to develop specialist chargers for UAV...

Nov 18, 2013
VectorNav Technologies Announces New Headquarters to Accommodate Continued Growth

VectorNav Technologies, LLC, a leading provider of inertial sensing and GPS technology solutions for the industrial and military markets, is...

Nov 18, 2013
SAAB Skeldar UAS operationally deployed by the Spanish Navy

Defence and security company Saab’s Skeldar Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) is now operationally deployed on-board the offshore patrol vessel BAM Meteoro....

Nov 15, 2013
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Electronic Attack Capability on Small Tactical UAS

Northrop Grumman Corporation has integrated and employed an internal miniature electronic attack payload on the Bat unmanned aircraft, marking the...

Nov 14, 2013
MILCOM: Molex to Showcase Connectivity Solutions for Mission-Critical Aerospace & Defense Applications

Molex Incorporated will bring a comprehensive array of products and solutions that meet the high-performance needs of the aerospace and...

Nov 14, 2013
ADLINK Launches Extreme Rugged HPERC-IBR for Reduced SWaP Requirements

ADLINK Technology, Inc., a leading provider of embedded computing products and Application Ready Intelligent Platforms (ARIP), today announced release of...

Nov 13, 2013
SimActive Releases Correlator3D Version 5.0

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, has announced the release of version 5.0 of Correlator3D™. This major release...

Nov 12, 2013
SA Photonics Introduces the World’s Highest Resolution Head Mounted Display

SA Photonics, a leading developer of next generation head mounted displays (HMDs) for military and commercial customers, has announced it...

Nov 12, 2013
Rapid Equipping Force Places $4.5M Order for Prioria Robotics’ Maveric UAS

Prioria Robotics, Inc., developers of tactical Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) has been awarded several contracts totaling $4.5 million by...

Nov 11, 2013
Northrop Grumman to Supply U.S. Air Force With Three More RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $114 million advance procurement contract in preparation to build three...

Nov 08, 2013
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
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