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

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
Small Honing Beacon Increases UAV Cargo Delivery Accuracy

Lockheed Martin has developed a small honing beacon to help increase the accuracy of cargo drops by UAVs. The beacon...

Jul 09, 2012
Volusia County and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Consider Testing UAVs

The skies over rural northwest Volusia County could be getting busier in coming weeks, with a proposed county agreement with...

Jul 09, 2012
UAV Factory Achieves Record 54-Hour Flight with Penguin B UAV

UAV Factory has expanded the boundaries of their unmanned aircraft vehicle capability by performing a nonstop 54 hour and 27...

Jul 08, 2012
Meggitt & CCUVS Discuss Unmanned Aircraft System Initiative

Representatives from the Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems and Meggitt Canada were in Foremost, Canada on Thursday to provide...

Jul 07, 2012
Israeli Air Force Tests Skills of UAV Squadrons

This week, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) held a competition testing the skill levels of its various unmanned aerial vehicle...

Jul 06, 2012
UAS Developer Emmen Aerospace Joins The BOSH Group

Emmen Aerospace, Inc. (Emmen) has announced that it will rebrand to become BOSH Technologies, a member of The BOSH Group...

Jul 04, 2012
U.S. Army UAS will fly in National Air Space by March 2014

By March 2014, the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, a U.S. Army unmanned aerial system, will be able to train in the...

Jul 03, 2012
Elbit Systems will Showcase Latest UAS Technology at Farnborough 2012

A broad spectrum of Elbit Systems innovative solutions designed for the changing requirements of the defense industry will be on...

Jul 03, 2012
AUVSI Publishes “Code of Conduct” for UAS Operations

AUVSI has published the “Unmanned Aircraft System Operations Industry Code of Conduct” www.auvsi.org/conduct, a set of guidelines to provide AUVSI...

Jul 03, 2012
Kratos Acquires Aerial Drone and Targets Provider Composite Engineering, Inc.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, has announced that it has completed its acquisition...

Jul 03, 2012
Northrop Grumman Awarded U.S. Air Force Global Hawk Deployment Contract

The US Air Force (USAF) has contracted Northrop Grumman to maintain deployment of three E-11 Global Express aircraft and three...

Jul 02, 2012
Pakistan Navy Buys LUNA UAS from EMT for Maritime Shore Surveillance

The Pakistan Navy has signed a contract on 27 June 2012 with EMT Germany to buy the LUNA UAS for its shore...

Jul 02, 2012
MQ-8B Fire Scout UAVs Increase Maritime Surveillance Aboard USS Klakring

Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 42 deployed with four Fire Scouts aboard frigate USS Klakring (FFG 42) June 29 in...

Jul 02, 2012
Mosaic ATM Launches UAS Automated Mission Planning System

Mosaic ATM announces the release of the Rapid Automated Mission Planning System (RAMPS) tool which dramatically shortens the mission planning...

Jul 02, 2012
Parvus Ultra-Rugged Mobile Router Passes Military Standard Qualification Testing

Eurotech subsidiary, Parvus, has announced that the DuraMAR 5915, an ultra-rugged Commercial-Off the Shelf (COTS) mobile IP router subsystem based...

Jul 02, 2012
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