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

EMT’s LUNA TUAS Completes 50th Flight with New ADS-B Transponder

EMT has announced the 50th flight sortie of its LUNA TUAS (Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System), with an EASA certified, ADS-B...

Oct 30, 2012
DJI Recalls GPS Compasses Causing S800 UAS to Fail

DJI, one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers in UAV systems, has announced a voluntary recall of all WooKong-M...

Oct 29, 2012
Cassidian Launches New TANAN™ 300 Compact VTOL Tactical UAS

Cassidian presents its TANAN™ 300 new-generation compact VTOL Tactical UAS (Vertical Take-Off and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial System) for maritime...

Oct 26, 2012
Kratos’ Composite Engineering, Inc. Wins $6.3m Contract to Supply Unmanned Aerial Target Systems to Korean Agency for Defense Development

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, has announced that its Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI)...

Oct 26, 2012
L-3 Wins U.S Navy Contract for VideoScout® Systems Worth $85m

L-3 Communications has announced that it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for its VideoScout® family of systems. Provided...

Oct 26, 2012
GA-ASI Demonstrates ADS-B Surveillance System on Guardian UAV

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

Oct 26, 2012
NEANY Inc. Ranked Third in the U.S. for 8(A) Prime Contractors

NEANY, Inc., a minority owned SBA 8(a) certified research, development, test and evaluation engineering firm headquartered in Hollywood, MD, has...

Oct 25, 2012
TECOM Wins Contract to Supply Expeditionary Ground Control Stations to AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems

TECOM Industries, Inc. a Smiths Interconnect business, is pleased to announce the award of a firm fixed price contract from...

Oct 24, 2012
MOD Clarifies Use of British Reaper UAVs in Afghanistan

The Guardian yesterday has claimed that the Royal Air Force (RAF) has to make an urgent purchase of five more...

Oct 24, 2012
Insitu Signs Licensing Agreement with Sentient to Integrate Kestrel Automated Detection Software into UAS’

Insitu Inc., has announced that it has signed a long-term licensing agreement with Sentient, located in Melbourne, Australia, to integrate...

Oct 24, 2012
Northrop Grumman Delivers New BACN-Equipped Global Hawk UAS to U.S. Air Force

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force carrying the Battlefield Airborne Communications...

Oct 24, 2012
IAI’s Heron UAS Crosses Andes in Operational Flight Demonstration

Israel Aerospace Industries‘ (IAI) Heron Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has marked a new achievement last month when crossing the Andes...

Oct 24, 2012
French DGA Completes Sea Trials of Automatic UAV Takeoff and Landing System

The French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA, Direction générale de l’armement) has recently conducted successful sea trials of D2AD*, an automatic...

Oct 24, 2012
R³ Engineering Completes the First ADS-B Fully Autonomous Collision Avoidance UAS Demonstration

R³ Engineering LLC (R³E) announces the first ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast) based, fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence, executed...

Oct 24, 2012
Lockheed Martin’s JAGM Dual-Mode Seeker Completes High-Speed Captive Flight Tests

Lockheed Martin successfully tested its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) dual-mode seeker in high-speed captive flight tests, demonstrating its ability to...

Oct 23, 2012
UK to Deploy More Reaper Drones to Afghanistan

The UK is to double the number of armed RAF “drones” flying combat and surveillance operations in Afghanistan and, for...

Oct 23, 2012
Aerosonde® Small UAS Logs 168 Flight Hours in Antarctica

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, has announced that its Aerosonde® Small...

Oct 23, 2012
SRI International Launch TerraSight® EX Expeditionary System at AUSA 2012

The TerraSight® EX video exploitation system, a compact, lightweight expeditionary version of the proven TerraSight platform, was introduced today by...

Oct 22, 2012
Aurora Integrates SRI International’s On-Board Video Processor into Skate SUAS

Aurora Flight Sciences and SRI International Sarnoff have announced the integration of the SRI Sarnoff DL Micro™ digital data link...

Oct 22, 2012
Sagetech and Arcturus UAV to Demonstrate Joint Manned and Unmanned Aircraft Operations Using NextGen ADS-B System

Sagetech Corporation an avionics company, and Arcturus UAV will demonstrate the use of the “NextGen” Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system...

Oct 22, 2012
Elbit Systems of America to Showcase Skylark UAS at AUSA 2012

Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd. will present an array of cutting edge...

Oct 22, 2012
U.S. Army Research Lab Uses Thermoelectric Technology on Shadow Tactical UAS to Convert Heat into Energy

In one of its latest research projects, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is investigating thermoelectric properties of materials on the...

Oct 18, 2012
Simlat Awarded Contract to Provide High Fidelity UAS Training System

Simlat Ltd. has been selected to provide a high fidelity UAS training system for UAS pilots and payload operators to...

Oct 18, 2012
NASA Issues RFI for UAS Challenge

NASA is considering the creation of an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) challenge with the goal of finding solutions to problems...

Oct 18, 2012
IAI to Showcase Live Maritime Heron UAS Demonstration at EuroNaval Show

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) invites visitors, exhibitors and guests of this year’s EuroNaval International Naval Defense and Maritime exhibition and...

Oct 18, 2012
IAI to Display Advanced Radars, HD Electro-Optical Payloads and Tactical Unmanned Systems at AUSA 2012

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will present various integrated solutions at the 2012 Annual Association of the United States Army (AUSA)...

Oct 18, 2012
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