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

World Surveillance Group Acquires Lighter Than Air Systems to Support DOD Contract

World Surveillance Group Inc. (“WSGI”), a developer of lighter-than-air aerostats and unmanned aerial systems, today announced that it has completed...

Apr 01, 2013
Hoverfly Founder Seeks FAA Partnership for ‘Film Flight School’ Certification

In the midst of a recovering economy, a 7.7 percent unemployment rate and federal sequestration, a group of Central Florida...

Mar 29, 2013
Ventura County Public Safety Agencies to Evaluate Aerovironment Qube UAV

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office has applied for a Certificate of Authorization (COA) through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to...

Mar 29, 2013
Shiebel Demonstrates CAMCOPTER S-100 Capabilities at LIMA

Shiebel will demonstrate the capabilities of the CAMCOPTER S-100 Unmanned Aircraft System during flight displays at Langkawi International Maritime and...

Mar 27, 2013
Finnish Defence Forces to use Simlat UAS Training Center

Simlat Ltd. has been awarded a contract to deliver a UAS training and simulation center to the Finnish Defence Forces...

Mar 26, 2013
microdrones Launches New md4-3000 UAS

microdrones GmbH has announced details of the latest addition to their rotary wing aircraft portfolio, the md4-3000. Designed to carry...

Mar 26, 2013
NuWaves Awarded Unmanned Aircraft Systems Data Link Range Extension Contracts

NuWaves Engineering, an international Radio Frequency (RF) and Embedded Systems solutions provider, announced today that it has been awarded two...

Mar 25, 2013
Marinvent’s Adaptive Flight Test-Bed Project Wins C2-MTL’s Prize for Aviation & Aerospace

Marinvent has been awarded C2-MTL’s Prize for Aviation & Aerospace for its adaptive flight test-bed project. Marinvent’s prize is one...

Mar 21, 2013
Rockwell Collins’ Tactical Targeting Network Technology Instrumental in X-47B Unmanned Demonstrator Trials

Rockwell Collins Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) was used by Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy as they successfully...

Mar 20, 2013
Oman Oil Firm PDO Completes Live Flare Inspection with UAV

A leading oil firm in Oman has employed an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to undertake its first ever live flare inspection...

Mar 18, 2013
Sci-Tech Discovery Center Announces Quadrotor Build and Fly Camp

Sci-Tech Discovery Center has announced its inaugural Quadrotor Build and Fly Camp presented by OnPoynt Flight School, which will be...

Mar 14, 2013
AeroVironment Orders Additional UAVs from CybAero

CybAero’s U.S. partner, AeroVironment, continues to invest in helicopter UAVs to meet demand. The order from AeroVironment is a blanket...

Mar 14, 2013
Video: Watch the nEUROn UCAV Demonstrator’s Maiden Flight

Dassault Aviation has released a video and new photos of the nEUROn Demonstrator’s flight flight, which took place in December...

Mar 14, 2013
MQ-8B Fire Scout Exceeds 8,000 Flight Hours During Operations

The Naval Air Systems Command has confirmed that an MQ-8B Fire Scout assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22 Detachment...

Mar 13, 2013
MLB’s VTOL UAV Demonstrates Capabilities Delivering Payloads Autonomously

MLB Company, a leader in low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions, services and products, has announced that it has concluded...

Mar 13, 2013
Integrating UAS into the U.S. National Airspace Will Create 70,000 New Jobs Within Three Years

Today, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) unveiled a new study, which finds that the unmanned aircraft industry...

Mar 12, 2013
Northrop Grumman to Supply Next-Generation Fire Scout to U.S. Navy

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract valued at more than $71 million to produce six additional...

Mar 12, 2013
Video: Microdrones Supports NBC Wildlife Film in Kenya

The Mission was to create a high-end documentary for NBC about the big wild animal migration from the Serengeti to...

Mar 11, 2013
Naval Air Systems Command Awards Wyle $24m UAS Contract

Wyle has been awarded a three-year $24 million contract to provide reliability improvement, testing, technology insertion and life-cycle analysis for...

Mar 11, 2013
TAMUCC to Conduct UAS Research Flight over Gulf of Mexico

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) will conduct the first mission over the Gulf of Mexico with their unmanned aircraft from...

Mar 11, 2013
Vanguard Defense Industries Shadowhawk UAS Selected For Naval Demonstration

The ShadowHawk Unmanned Aerial System by Vanguard Defense Industries has been selected by the Department of the Navy, Naval Surface...

Mar 07, 2013
Northrop Grumman Successfully Demonstrates Joint STARS, Global Hawk Interoperability

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently completed a successful exchange of radar data during a flight test involving the U.S. Air Force’s...

Mar 07, 2013
DARPA Launches TERN Program to Develop Mobile Bases for UAVs

Effective 21st-century warfare requires the ability to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike mobile targets anywhere, around...

Mar 05, 2013
ViaSat Demonstrates High-Throughput Ka-band Satellite Communication System

ViaSat Inc. has demonstrated a high-performance Ka-band satellite communication system that delivers beyond line-of-sight broadband for manned and unmanned rotary...

Mar 05, 2013
U.S. Army Gray Eagle UAS Completes Initial Operational Testing and Evaluation

The U.S. Army’s Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system recently completed a successful initial operational testing and evaluation at the Army’s...

Mar 04, 2013
TEKEVER’s AR4 Light Ray UAS Completes Trials in Colombia

TEKEVER has conducted a week of intensive trials of the AR4 Light Ray UAS for the Colombian Armed Forces, to...

Mar 04, 2013
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