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

Autocopter UAV Launched for Agricultural Applications

The AutoCopter™ is a UAV helicopter providing remote sensing of crops using three full-sized cameras (multi-spectral, DSLR and HD Video)...

Jun 25, 2013
Northrop Grumman Awarded Inertial Navigation System Development Contract by AFRL

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a phase two inertial navigation system-related contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to...

Jun 25, 2013
Rockwell Collins RTK SAASM and Autopilot Pivotal in Ship-based Recovery of U.S. Navy RQ-21A UAS

The Rockwell Collins Athena® 111m Flight Control System and Real Time Kinematic (RTK) Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) technology solution...

Jun 25, 2013
SNC Completes Second Sense and Avoid Radar Sensor Flight Demonstration

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) successfully completed its second airborne demonstration for the Air Force Research Lab under its Multi Sensor...

Jun 25, 2013
UEI Announces FLATRACK 1U DAQ/Embedded Control Platform

United Electronic Industries (UEI) has announced the release of an innovative Ethernet-based data acquisition (DAQ) and control platform. The DNF-4-1G...

Jun 25, 2013
Video: microdrone UAS Completes First Flight Across the Alps

On 12th June, a microdrones md4-1000 drone equipped with an HD camera set off from Switzerland and crossed the Saint-Gotthard...

Jun 21, 2013
ScanEagle UAS to be Deployed by Royal Navy for ISR Operations

ScanEagle is a maritime reconnaissance asset that can be launched off the back of Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary...

Jun 21, 2013
Paris 2013: Aeroprobe Introduce Micro Air Data Computer

Aeroprobe Corporation introduced a micro sized air data computer to the aviation community at the 50th Paris-Le Bourget International Air...

Jun 20, 2013
Paris 2013: Piaggio Aero Unveils “HammerHead” UAS

Piaggio Aero Industries has unveiled at the 2013 Paris Air Show, the Piaggio Aero P.1HH “HammerHead” Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)....

Jun 19, 2013
GA-ASI Partner with Fokker to Prepare Predator B UAS for the Dutch Government

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

Jun 19, 2013
ERDF and Cassidian/Survey Copter Collaborate for Civil Uses of UAVs

A cooperative experiment that has been on-going for about a year between French electricity distribution network operator ERDF (Electricité Réseau...

Jun 18, 2013
NASA Tests Radio for Unmanned Aircraft Operations

NASA’s communications experts have begun flight testing a prototype radio as part of the agency’s contributions toward fully integrating civil...

Jun 18, 2013
MBDA UK Leads Key Aerospace Aerodynamics Project

MBDA UK, part of the MBDA Group, is leading one of the seven major new collaborative research and development projects...

Jun 18, 2013
Paris 2013: IAI Showcase “Total Solutions” Concept

At the 50th Paris Air Show, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is presenting its newly offered “Total Solutions” concept, demonstrated in...

Jun 18, 2013
Aurora Flight Sciences Offers Global Leases for Centaur OPA Surveillance Aircraft

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced it is offering Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA) globally for leasing or fee-for-service. This Aurora...

Jun 18, 2013
Dassault Aviation Calls for a European MALE Program

EADS Cassidian, Dassault Aviation and Finmeccanica Alenia Aermacchi, having a common view on the current situation in Europe regarding MALE...

Jun 18, 2013
Trimble Introduce Next Generation Unmanned Aircraft System for Photogrammetric Aerial Mapping

Trimble has introduced its next generation Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) – the Trimble® UX5 aerial imaging rover with the Trimble...

Jun 17, 2013
Paris 2013: Selex ES Showcase Systems, Sensors for ISR

Selex ES, Finmeccanica’s defence and security electronics business, will present its systems, sensors and avionics components that contribute to ISR...

Jun 17, 2013
RQ-21A Small UAS Completes 1st East Coast Flight

The RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) completed its first East Coast flight from Webster Field Annex on June...

Jun 14, 2013
MQ-4C Triton UAS Flies With Next-Generation Sense and Avoid Transponder

There’s a first time for everything, and BAE Systems‘ next-generation Identification Friend or Foe system reached a first – flying...

Jun 14, 2013
Paris 2013: Elbit to Launch UAS Self Protection System

Elbit Systems EW and Sigint – Elisra will launch at the Paris Air Show a self protection Electronic Warfare (EW)...

Jun 12, 2013
Raven Industries Persistent Surveillance Solution Supports U.S. Navy

Raven Aerostar recently concluded a successful maritime operation in response to an urgent requirement from the Commander, U.S. Navy South...

Jun 11, 2013
Halberd Corporation to Sell Low Cost UAV to Consumer Market

Halberd Corporation has announced its strategies to effectively move forward with its plans to develop its entry into the online...

Jun 11, 2013
Lockheed Martin Real-Time Intelligence Support Provides Battlespace View To U.S. Air Force

Lockheed Martin teams provided exploitation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities at a level never before achieved during Red...

Jun 11, 2013
X-ES Announces 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor-Based Single Board Computers

Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES) has introduced its 3U VPX, 6U VPX, XMC, 3U CompactPCI, 6U CompactPCI, 6U VME, and...

Jun 04, 2013
AutonomouStuff to Distribute Neptec OPAL 2.0 3D Laser Scanners

Neptec Technologies Corp., a leading developer of innovative 3D machine vision products, today announced that it has signed AutonomouStuff as...

Jun 03, 2013
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