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

CAE launches UAS Mission Trainer System

CAE has announced the launch of its UAS Mission Trainer product. The CAE UAS Mission Trainer combines an open architecture...

Nov 07, 2012
Sagetech and Arcturus-UAV Complete Simultaneous Manned, Unmanned Aircraft Operations using COTS NextGen ADS-B Tracking

Avionics company Sagetech Corporation and unmanned aircraft manufacturer Arcturus UAV demonstrated joint flight operations between manned aircraft and a drone...

Nov 07, 2012
NASA’s X-48 Unmanned Research Aircraft Completes 100th Test Flight

The Boeing X-48 Blended Wing Body subscale research aircraft made its 100th flight in late October at NASA’s Dryden Flight...

Nov 06, 2012
Soliders Evaluate Upgrades to UAV Shadow

The soldiers of Company A, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, are flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles...

Nov 05, 2012
U.S. Navy Plans for Sea-Based Long Range Unmanned Drones

The U.S. Navy plans to release a draft solicitation for a new kind of sea-based aircraft in December. Called the...

Nov 05, 2012
Iran Claims to have ‘far more advanced’ Drones in its Arsenal

Iran possesses drones that are far more advanced than the unmanned aircraft Iranian-backed Hezbollah launched into Israeli airspace this month,...

Nov 05, 2012
General Dynamics and U.S. Army ARDEC Test GPS-Guided Munition on Tactical UAV

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and the U.S. Army Armament Research and Development Engineering Center (ARDEC) have successfully demonstrated...

Nov 02, 2012
Northrop Grumman Wins $36.5m Contract to Training Unmanned Aircraft Operators

The Department of Defense has awarded more than $36.5 million to Northrop Grumman training soldiers in the operation of unmanned...

Nov 01, 2012
FreeWave Technologies’ MM2 Wireless Data Radio Wins Product of the Year Award

FreeWave Technologies, manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, has announced that...

Nov 01, 2012
Raytheon Demonstrates Soldier Radio Waveform on New Radio Terminals Fitted in UAVs

In a key milestone, Raytheon Company has demonstrated the Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) on its new class of airborne and...

Nov 01, 2012
Insitu Pacific Successfully Integrates ScanEagle UAS with McQ Unattended Ground Sensor

Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., has announced that it has successfully completed integration between its ScanEagle Unmanned...

Oct 30, 2012
Tech Source and RunTime Form Partnership to Accelerate GPGPU Development on its Condor 3000 cards Used in UAVs

Tech Source, Inc., an independent supplier of high performance embedded video, graphics and high end computing solutions, has partnered with...

Oct 30, 2012
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
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