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

AUVSI 2013: C-ASTRAL Unveils New BRAMOR C4EYE UAS

C-ASTRAL Ltd., a provider of small unmanned integrated systems for surveying, remote sensing and ISR, has unveiled their new imagery intelligence...

Aug 16, 2013
U.S. Navy Awards Preliminary Design Review Contracts for Unmanned Carrier-Based System

The U.S. Navy announced Aug. 14 that four Preliminary Design Review (PDR) contracts were awarded for the Unmanned Carrier Launched...

Aug 16, 2013
Airware Announces Partnership with Insitu

Airware, the maker of AirwareOS, has announced a new partnership with Insitu, a leader in small UAS platforms and technology....

Aug 15, 2013
AeroVironment Receives $13.5m Order to Supply RQ-11B Raven Small UAS and Gimbaled Payloads to U.S. Army

AeroVironment, Inc. have announced that on August 13, 2013 the company received a $13,487,240 order from the United States Army....

Aug 15, 2013
LEMO Demonstrates Lightweight Compact COTS Connector Series at AUVSI 2013

LEMO, a global leader in the design and manufacture of precision custom connection solutions will be displaying its connector series...

Aug 15, 2013
Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8B Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter Exceeds 5,000 Flight Hours in Afghanistan

The Northrop Grumman Corporation -built MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter surpassed 5,000 flight hours while providing critical surveillance capabilities to...

Aug 14, 2013
LORD MicroStrain Introduces Tactical-Grade Inertial Navigation System

LORD MicroStrain Sensing Systems, a global leader in developing embedded sensing systems for aerospace and industrial markets, has introduced its...

Aug 14, 2013
AUVSI 2013: Epson Announces World’s Smallest IMU

Epson Electronics America (EEA) has developed a breakthrough new product, the M-V340, for its inertial measurement unit (IMU) lineup. The new product...

Aug 13, 2013
Keymerging Technologies Selects ING Robotic Aviation’s Responder UAV for Use in East Africa

Keymerging Technologies Ltd has purchased ING Robotic Aviation’s Responder rotary wing unmanned aerial vehicle systems for use in East Africa....

Aug 13, 2013
Arcturus T-20 UAV Reaches New High Altitude Record

The Arcturus T-20 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flew to an altitude of 23,500′ MSL during a training flight at Camp Guernsey...

Aug 13, 2013
Sikorsky to Develop MATRIX™ Technology to Advance Autonomous VTOL Flights

Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., has unveiled a major research program — designated MATRIX™ Technology — to...

Aug 13, 2013
Roke Launches VTA 2.0 at AUVSI Unmanned Systems Show

Roke, a Chemring Group company, today launches the latest version of its VTA (Visual Target Analysis) product, a moving target...

Aug 12, 2013
NovAtel® Continues to Power the Unmanned Industry

NovAtel, an OEM provider of high precision positioning products is adding new capabilities that are tailored to the needs of...

Aug 12, 2013
Protection and Robustness are the Foundations of NovAtel’s Navigation Warfare Products for the Unmanned Market

NovAtel®, an OEM provider of high precision positioning products, has enhanced its portfolio of Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) solutions with the...

Aug 12, 2013
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator Returns to Pax River Concluding Carrier Tests

The Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator safely returned to Naval Air Station Patuxent River Aug. 8 from...

Aug 09, 2013
U.S. Navy Test GPS Anti-Jamming Device on Small UAV

Part of an initiative to protect GPS technologies on small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), the Navy recently conducted tests to...

Aug 09, 2013
Raytheon’s JLENS Aerostat Helps Detect and Intercept Cruise Missile

The U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force intercepted for the first time an anti-ship cruise missile surrogate using Raytheon Company’s...

Aug 07, 2013
Tech Source Adds Wind River VxWorks Support to H.264 XMC Video Card

Tech Source, Inc., an independent supplier of high performance embedded video, graphics and high end computing solutions, has successfully added...

Aug 07, 2013
Scion UAS Completes First Flight of SA-400 Jackal

Scion UAS has completed the first test flights of the production SA-400 Jackal Optionally Piloted Helicopter. The first flight comes...

Aug 07, 2013
AUVSI 2013: ENSCO Feature Engineering, Meteorological Modeling, C2, Mission Support

ENSCO, Inc. is taking its deep experience and advanced technologies in avionics systems engineering, vision systems, embedded graphics, mission support,...

Aug 06, 2013
FluxData Introduces 3-CCD Multispectral Camera for UAVs

FluxData, Inc., a leader in the multispectral imaging systems industry, today announces the introduction of the FD-1665-UAV 3-CCD multispectral camera...

Aug 06, 2013
AUVSI 2013: FAUN TRACKWAY to Display Modular UAV Landing Mat

FAUN TRACKWAY USA, the leading manufacturer of portable roadways and runways, is showcasing its UAV Landing Mat at the Association...

Aug 05, 2013
Featured at AUVSI 2013: Corsair Engineering’s IM3PUT UAS Trainer

Featured at AUVSI 2013: Corsair Engineering’s UAS trainer meeting the needs for training future crews of unmanned systems for military...

Aug 05, 2013
AUVSI 2013: Unmanned Systems Group to Display Discoverer II RPAS

Unmanned Systems Group (UMS) will showcase the Discoverer II Tactical Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems 2013 in...

Aug 05, 2013
The Incredible Shrinking Managed Military-grade Ethernet Switch

Ethernet is rapidly becoming the standard for military and other rugged applications due to proven interoperability, reliability, and speed. The...

Aug 01, 2013
Phoenix Aerial Systems Develops World’s Smallest Commercial UAV LiDAR Platform

Phoenix Aerial Systems, a leading manufacturer of unmanned aerial platforms, announced today that they have successfully developed and demonstrated the...

Aug 01, 2013
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