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

Boeing’s Unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Returns to Orbit

Boeing has successfully returned an unmanned U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to orbit, continuing to demonstrate how the...

Dec 12, 2012
X-37B Unmanned Orbit Vehicle Uses UTC Aerospace Systems’ Space Flight Actuation System

UTC Aerospace Systems developed and manufactured the space flight actuation system and remote interface unit supporting the recent successful flight...

Dec 12, 2012
TASL Acquires Majority Stake In Aurora Integrated Systems

Tata Advanced Systems Limited has acquired majority stake in Aurora Integrated Systems Limited. PXV Law Partners advised AIS while AZB...

Dec 11, 2012
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Powers X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle back into Orbit

The U.S. military’s unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle returned to orbit today on its third mission – thanks to the...

Dec 11, 2012
Royal Navy to Trial Aircraft Carrier-Launched Unmanned Aircraft

The Royal Navy is to start trialling unmanned drones launched from aircraft carriers, Defence Minister Philip Dunne says. Drones are...

Dec 11, 2012
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Completes First Taxi On Truman Carrier

Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and personnel from the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System...

Dec 11, 2012
DARPA Demonstrates Precise Autonomous Payload Placement with UAV

When a person reaches out to place an object in just the right place, their mind makes a series of...

Dec 10, 2012
Advanced Unmanned Completes First Stage of UAV Development

Aerial imagery company Advanced Unmanned approved the specifications for its customized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet, completing the design phase...

Dec 10, 2012
Scan Eagle UAV Completes Flight-Check on LPD Class Ship

A Scan Eagle Unmanned Air Vehicle was launched from the USS San Antonio (LPD 17), an amphibious transport dock class...

Dec 10, 2012
EFF Releases Map of Unmanned Drones in USA

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that...

Dec 07, 2012
Future of Unmanned Aerospace Systems Touted at Jackson County Economic Development Foundation Dinner

Existing aerospace enterprises and the hope of more to come served as the backdrop Thursday night for the Jackson County...

Dec 07, 2012
NASA to Study Pollutants in the Stratosphere with Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft

NASA is inviting social media followers for a behind-the-scenes look at several airborne Earth science missions during an event Jan....

Dec 07, 2012
Aurora Delivers World’s First Optionally-Piloted Aircraft to Swiss DoD

Aurora Flight Sciences has delivered the world’s first production Optionally-Piloted Aircraft (OPA) system to Switzerland’s Department of Defence. The Centaur...

Dec 06, 2012
JLENS Unmanned Aerostat Simultaneously Tracked Swarming Targets in Recent Test

Swarming boats operating in highly-trafficked strategic waterways will soon be easier to detect, target and engage. During a recent test,...

Dec 06, 2012
CyPhy Works Unveils Two New Long Endurance UAVs

CyPhy Works, an innovative new robotics company, today unveiled two revolutionary small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs): EASE and PARC. The...

Dec 05, 2012
Unmanned Aircraft Likely to take over Nimrod Spy Duties

The military is likely to use unmanned drones to undertake reconnaissance patrols around the coast of the UK and for...

Dec 05, 2012
Carbon by Design increases UAV Manufacturing Equipment

Carbon by Design has acquired its fifth Haas CNC in less than three years to complete the planned capacity build-out...

Dec 05, 2012
Cosworth Completes UAV Hybrid Propulsion Study for UK MoD

Cosworth has used its advanced propulsion system modelling and simulation techniques to evaluate the benefits of hybrid system technologies and...

Dec 05, 2012
UND Offers Unmanned Aircraft Training to Foreign Students

The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks is setting up a program to train foreign students to fly unmanned...

Dec 04, 2012
Textron Systems and Bell Helicopter Launch Huntsville-Based Integration and Collaboration Laboratories

Textron Systems and Bell Helicopter, Textron Inc. companies, announced today the opening of the Textron Systems Integration and Collaboration Lab...

Dec 04, 2012
DJI Launches Ready-to-Fly VTOL Unmanned Aircraft

The Phantom is DJI’s first small size Ready-to-Fly VTOL, integrated multi-rotor aircraft for aerial filming. It not only has an...

Dec 04, 2012
Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter Achieves 24-hour ISR Support

The Navy’s fourth Fire Scout detachment returned to Mayport, Fla. on Dec. 1 after achieving several milestones during its five-month...

Dec 04, 2012
AeroVironment Teams Up With CybAero to Develop VTOL UAS

AeroVironment, Inc. has announced it has entered into a strategic relationship with Sweden-based CybAero AB to develop and distribute a...

Dec 03, 2012
microdrones UAS Receives Czech CAA Approval

Techniserv, the local partner for microdrones GmbH in the Czech Republic, has been awarded authorisation from the CAA to fly...

Dec 03, 2012
NEUROn UAV Completes Maiden Flight

Dassault Aviation has successfully conducted the maiden flight of the nEUROn unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV). The flight was carried...

Dec 03, 2012
NASA/GA-ASI Agreement Expands Unmanned Aircraft Capabilities

NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) have partnered in a collaborative agreement to allow...

Nov 30, 2012
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