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

X-47B Completes First Ever Carrier Touch-and-Go Landing Operations

The Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) has begun touch-and-go landing operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS George...

May 21, 2013
A-NSE T-C350 Airborne Surveillance System to be Deployed the Middle-East

The T-C350 is an aerial surveillance platform loaded on an aerostat. It can lift a 200 kg payload. Its integrated...

May 17, 2013
Australia Renews Interest in MQ-4C Triton UAS

The Australian Ministers for Defence and Defence Materiel announced May 15 that the government of Australia will enter into a...

May 17, 2013
Saab’s Skeldar V-200 Vertical Lift UAS Demonstrates Key Capabilities

Defence and security company Saab has verified a number of key capabilities of its Skeldar V-200 vertical lift UAS through...

May 15, 2013
X-47B UCAS Demonstrator Completes First Carrier-Based Catapult Launch

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) completed its first ever carrier-based catapult launch from USS George H.W. Bush...

May 14, 2013
Insitu Pacific Delivers ScanEagle UAS for the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force

Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it has delivered a ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)...

May 14, 2013
U.S Army Gray Eagle UAS Receives Electronic Jamming Capability

Raytheon Company has delivered two electronic attack payloads in support of the U.S. Army’s Networked Electronic Warfare, Remotely Operated (NERO)...

May 14, 2013
Robotics Firms Falkor Systems and I Heart Engineering Announce Merger

Falkor Systems, Inc., the developers of the autonomous flying pet drone, and I Heart Engineering, TurtleBot manufacturer and open source...

May 13, 2013
PolyU Students Show Prowess in UAV Design Competition

A student team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has made a strong presence in the 2013 Taiwan Innovative...

May 13, 2013
NRL Extend Electric UAV Flight Time Using Liquid Hydrogen

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory flew their fuel cell powered Ion Tiger unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for 48...

May 10, 2013
Development Projects to Oversee NASA’s UAS Airspace Operations Challenge 2014

NASA has selected Development Projects Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to manage a new Centennial Challenge prize competition involving unmanned aircraft...

May 10, 2013
WineHawk Labs Re-Brands as Precision Hawk To Launch New UAV Platform

Unmanned aerial systems and remote sensing company, Winehawk Labs, has announced they will release a new model of their successful...

May 10, 2013
Navy’s Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron to Operate Manned and Unmanned Aircraft

Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35 became the first composite expeditionary helicopter squadron to include both the world’s most technologically...

May 09, 2013
Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft Wins C4ISR Award for Innovation

Aurora Flight Sciences‘ Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft was awarded the “Big 25 Award” from C4ISR Journal on April 26 during...

May 08, 2013
Boeing’s Unmanned X-51A WaveRider Completes Longest Hypersonic Flight

A Boeing X-51A WaveRider unmanned hypersonic vehicle achieved the longest air-breathing, scramjet-powered hypersonic flight in history May 1, flying for...

May 07, 2013
Simlat to Provide UAS & ISR Training & Simulation Systems to Summit Advanced Systems

Simlat Ltd. has been chosen to provide its advanced UAS & ISR Training and Simulation systems to Summit Advanced Systems,...

May 07, 2013
Video: First Arrested Landing of X-47B Unmanned Demonstrator

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy have conducted the first fly-in arrested landing of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air...

May 07, 2013
Small Tactical Multi-Payload Aerostat System to Provide ISR in Afghanistan

Carolina Unmanned Vehicles, Inc. (CUV) announces the delivery of the Rev-1 version of the Small Tactical Multi-Payload Aerostat System (STMPAS),...

May 02, 2013
U.S. DOD Receives Second Blimp in a Box Aerostat System

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air aerostats and unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAS”), today announced that, with the support...

May 02, 2013
Aermatica Conduct First Authorized UAV Flight in Non-Segregated Airspace

Italian UAV manufacturer, Aermatica, has conducted the first authorised UAV flight in an urban environment in Italy. The flight was...

Apr 30, 2013
Successful Test Flight Demonstrates RPAS Insertion Into Civil Airspace

DESIRE has undertaken a series of test flights to demonstrate the role of satellite communications for integrating in civil and...

Apr 29, 2013
Armed Drones Operated from RAF base in UK, says MoD

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that armed drone aircraft have been operated remotely from Britain for the first time,...

Apr 27, 2013
Consortium Prepares Proposal for Washington UAS Test Site

A consortium of Washington-based organizations will soon submit the final section of a proposal to site an unmanned aircraft system...

Apr 26, 2013
Eurocopter Completes Unmanned EC145 Demonstration Flights

Eurocopter’s ability to integrate unmanned flight capabilities into its helicopter family has been validated by an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV)...

Apr 26, 2013
GA‑ASI’s Advanced Cockpit Ground Control Station Flies Predator C Avenger UAS

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

Apr 25, 2013
Epson Introduces Two New Ruggedized Inertial Measurement Units

Epson Electronics America (EEA) has developed two new inertial measurement units (IMU), the M-G550-PC and the M-G550-PR. The new products...

Apr 25, 2013
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