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

IAF’s Heron TP UAV Returns to Service Following Seven Month Grounding

The Israel Air Force’s most advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Heron TP, known as the Eitan, is back in...

Aug 27, 2012
Sensor Manufacturer MicroStrain is Acquired by LORD Corporation

MicroStrain, Inc. of Williston, Vt. has announced that it has agreed to the terms of a business acquisition of its...

Aug 21, 2012
Cubic Wins Contract to Produce Compact Digital Data Link for MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter

Cubic Defense Applications, a defense systems business of Cubic Corporation, received a $3.7 million contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation to...

Aug 21, 2012
U.S. Navy to Add Surveillance Drones to its Asia-Pacific Fleet

The U.S. Navy is stepping up its ocean surveillance capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region, with new manned aircraft arriving within...

Aug 21, 2012
ISR Group and Altavian Sign Agreement for the NOVA UAS

ISR Group, Inc. and Altavian, Inc., two leaders in the unmanned vehicle systems industry, have signed an exclusive agreement for...

Aug 17, 2012
Researchers Receive Grant to Add Robotic Arms on to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand...

Aug 17, 2012
Eaton Provides Hydraulic System Support for X-47B UAV

Eaton Hydraulics Group Australasia is a key supplier to Northrop Grumman, the US Navy’s prime contractor for the Unmanned Combat...

Aug 16, 2012
Boeing Delivers Smaller, Lighter Radio Relay for Small UAVs

Boeing has delivered production units of a smaller, lighter version of its Tactical Compact Communications Relay (TCCR), which allows a...

Aug 15, 2012
C-ASTRAL BRAMOR gEO UAV Flies Mapping Mission at 4150m ASL

C-ASTRAL Ltd has flown an 80 minute mapping mission at 4150m ASL with the BRAMOR gEO UAV in support of the mining...

Aug 14, 2012
Insitu’s ScanEagle UAS Receives Limited Military Aircraft Type-Classification to Fly in Dutch Airspace

Insitu Inc. announced today that its Netherlands customer is now authorized to fly the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) under...

Aug 14, 2012
MicroPilot Launches XTENDERvalidate, a Design Life Cycle Management Tool for UAVs

MicroPilot, leader in autopilot solutions for miniature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), released the world’s first available design life cycle tool...

Aug 09, 2012
ACP Composites Announce New 3 Ply Sandwich Composite Panels for Unmanned Systems

  ACP Composites, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high quality, lightweight composite panels, has just announced the introduction of their...

Aug 09, 2012
Raytheon Complete Test Flight of Pyros on Unmanned Aircraft

Raytheon Company completed a successful warhead and guidance system test of its Pyros™ small tactical munition. The end-to-end test validated...

Aug 08, 2012
FreeWave Technologies Wireless Data Radios Log Over 1.3 Million Combat Hours on UAV Platforms

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

Aug 07, 2012
Insitu’s New Small Tactical UAS Completes Maiden Flight

Insitu Inc. has announced the first flight of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System...

Aug 07, 2012
Hirth Motors Unveils New UAV Engine Family at AUVSI 2012

Goebler-Hirthmotoren KG (Hirth Motors) is launching a new Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) engine family at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America...

Aug 07, 2012
Air Robotics Launches New Rugged Small UAS

Air Robotics has introduced the Im IV-D™ (Four Delta™), a hand-tossed, small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) capable of carrying a...

Aug 07, 2012
Lockheed Martin Procerus Technologies Announces New Small Vertical Take-off And Landing UAS

Lockheed Martin Procerus Technologies‘ new small vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system gives warfighters, first responders and others...

Aug 06, 2012
Air Force Selects MLB V-Bat VTOL UAV for Phase II SBIR award

The Air Force has announced that the MLB V-Bat VTOL UAV has been selected for a Phase II SBIR award....

Aug 06, 2012
Shadow® Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Completes 750,000 Flight Hours

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, has announced that its Shadow Tactical...

Aug 06, 2012
MLB UAV Complete High Resolution Assessment of Seagrass and Coral Reef Biomes

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

Aug 06, 2012
Elbit Systems Wins Multi-Million Dollar Contract to Supply Hermes UAS

Elbit Systems Ltd. has announced that it was awarded a contract valued at many tens of millions of dollars, to...

Aug 06, 2012
Protonex Launches Commercial UAV-H500 Fuel Cell Power System for Unmanned Vehicles

Protonex Technology Corporation, a leading provider of advanced lightweight military power systems, announces the commercial availability of the UAV-H500 fuel...

Aug 03, 2012
Analytic Systems Develops Power Products for Unmanned Aerial Systems

Analytic Systems has recently supplied products to a number of companies that design and manufacture unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The...

Aug 02, 2012
Xsens Launches New MEMS Motion Trackers for Unmanned Systems

Xsens, the leading innovator in 3D motion tracking technology and products, has launched a new MTi® product portfolio for industrial...

Aug 02, 2012
IAI Boosts Unmanned Vehicles Portfolio with Heron NG Upgrade

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is offering an upgraded version of its best-selling unmanned air system (UAS), with the Heron NG...

Aug 01, 2012
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