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

CUV Launches Small Tactical Multi-Payload Aerostat System (STMPAS)

Carolina Unmanned Vehicles, Inc. (CUV)  has announced the delivery of a new version of their Lightweight Aerostat System (LAS) for...

Jul 17, 2012
Maiden flight for Advanced Aviation Technology – A2Tech’s RV-VTOLx4

Just 10 months after its development start, Advanced Aviation Technology – A2Tech has performed the first official flights of its...

Jul 17, 2012
Northrop Grumman Sponsors AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Student Competitions

Northrop Grumman Corporation has taken on the prime sponsorship of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) student competitions...

Jul 16, 2012
Rheinmetall Airborne Systems will Continue to Provide Unmanned Reconnaissance to German Armed Forces

Rheinmetall Airborne Systems GmbH, a joint venture by Cassidian and Rheinmetall, will continue to support the German Armed Forces in...

Jul 16, 2012
FOTC Developing Infinite Range Electric Aircraft

American electric vehicle pioneer Chip Yates and his team of record-breaking engineers who created and raced the World’s Fastest Electric...

Jul 15, 2012
EADS Innovation Works Produces Portable UAV Using 3D Printing

At Farnborough Airshow, EADS Innovation Works presented the prototype of a portable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) produced by Additive Layer...

Jul 15, 2012
Insitu Pacific to provide ScanEagle services to Royal Australian Navy

Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., has announced that it has extended and expanded its existing Australian Defence Force...

Jul 15, 2012
Adaptive Flight And University Of Texas Carry Out GPS Spoofing Tests

Adaptive Flight, Inc. is working with the University of Texas Radionavigation Laboratory under an ongoing project to test whether it...

Jul 13, 2012
Boeing and Insitu Pacific Support UAV Outback Challenge

Boeing is encouraging the next generation of engineers and scientists to think innovatively about aerospace during this year’s unmanned airborne...

Jul 12, 2012
QinetiQ to Establish New Unmanned Air Systems Evaluation Centre

QinetiQ is working with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to establish a new Unmanned Air Systems Capability Development Centre...

Jul 12, 2012
U.S. Navy Test Unmanned Combat Air System on Carrier

A team from the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System program office tested communication software for the Unmanned Combat Air System...

Jul 12, 2012
Insitu Pacific Announces Contract for ScanEagle UAS with MHI of Japan

  Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it has signed a contract to deliver ScanEagle unmanned...

Jul 11, 2012
New Laser Power System Extends Stalker UAS Flight Time

Lockheed Martin and LaserMotive, Inc., recently demonstrated the capabilities of an innovative laser power system to extend the Stalker Unmanned...

Jul 11, 2012
Rockwell Collins Names Ideal Aerosmith as 2012 Business Services Supplier of The Year

Rockwell Collins recently named Ideal Aerosmith as its 2012 Business Services Supplier of the Year. Ideal Aerosmith designs and manufactures...

Jul 11, 2012
SELEX Galileo’s New Falco Evo UAS Undergoing Runway Rollout

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, has announced a further export customer for its Falco Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (TUAS). This...

Jul 11, 2012
L2 Aerospace and Cella Energy Collaborate to Extend UAV Flight Times

L2 Aerospace, an innovative company providing integrated ground, air and space-based products and services, has announced a new partnership with...

Jul 11, 2012
Video: New Aerobot ‘Ring’ Multi-rotor UAV Final Testing

Aerobot, producers of the much acclaimed Cinestar multi-rotor range of UAVs, has released a video showing the final testing of...

Jul 10, 2012
Boeing and Elbit Systems to Collaborate on Marketing and Sales of Hermes UAS’

The Boeing Company and Elbit Systems have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the marketing and sales of...

Jul 10, 2012
Insitu Common Open-mission Management Control System Flies Integrator UAS

Insitu Inc. have announced that the Insitu Common Open-mission Management Command and Control (ICOMC2) system flew its Integrator Unmanned Aircraft...

Jul 10, 2012
MBDA To Announce UAV Strike Weapons Concept

MBDA is this week unveiling an innovative concept weapon system for 2030, CVS301 VIGILUS. VIGILUS is a suite of future...

Jul 10, 2012
AAI Awarded $358 Million for Upgraded U.S. Army and Marine Corps RQ-7B Shadow TUAS

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that it has received...

Jul 10, 2012
Taranis Unmanned Combat Air System Completes Tests Ahead of 2013 Flight Trials

Taranis, the UK’s unmanned combat air system technology demonstrator, has successfully completed a series of key tests on the way...

Jul 09, 2012
Mantis UAS Concept Demonstrator Targeted to Fly in the UK

BAE Systems has announced its intention to re-fly the Mantis UAS Concept Demonstrator – this time in UK airspace. This...

Jul 09, 2012
Space Florida Selects ENSCO for UAS Initiative

Space Florida – the State of Florida’s spaceport authority and aerospace economic development agency – has selected ENSCO, Inc. –...

Jul 09, 2012
Swedish FMV Select Kratos Composite Engineering, Inc. to Provide Unmanned Aerial Target Systems

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, has announced that its newly acquired subsidiary, Composite...

Jul 09, 2012
Insitu Pacific to Supply ScanEagle UAS to Republic of Singapore Navy

Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it was awarded a contract to provide its ScanEagle...

Jul 09, 2012
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