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

Surf Life Savers to Monitor sharks & Swimmers with Small UAVs

Technology typically used for military operations could soon be monitoring bathers and sharks off Australian beaches. The project will test...

Jun 04, 2012
BlueView Technologies to be Acquired by Teledyne Technologies

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated has announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne RD Instruments, Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire BlueView...

Jun 02, 2012
U.S. Army Places $16m Initial Order for AeroVironment UAS’s

AeroVironment Inc. has received a $15.8 million initial order from the United States Army out of a total projected contract...

Jun 01, 2012
NASA to Send UAVs into Stormy Skies

Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed “severe storm sentinels” above...

Jun 01, 2012
Sky-Futures Adds Gatewing X-100 UAV to Managed Service Fleet

Sky-Futures have acquired the Gatewing X-100 as the new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to their managed service fleet, and will...

Jun 01, 2012
JAXA Aims to Set Unmanned Balloon Altitude Record

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will attempt to send an unmanned scientific balloon to a world-record-breaking altitude of around 55...

Jun 01, 2012
World Surveillance Group Successfully Completes Payload Testing of Argus One UAV

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, announced today that the Company...

May 31, 2012
Hood Technology UAV Imaging Systems to be Used by Iraqi Navy

The UAV imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the...

May 31, 2012
Northrop Grumman & L-3 MAS Join Forces on Unmanned System for Canadian Security

Northrop Grumman Corporation and L-3 MAS announced plans today to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global...

May 31, 2012
New Piezoelectric Accelerometer Technologies for UAV Ground Vibration Testing

Kistler has announced availability of its piezoelectric accelerometer technologies for cost-effective, high-accuracy support of aircraft, helicopter, rotorcraft, missile, satellite and...

May 29, 2012
Cargo Hookup Completed with K-MAX Unmanned Cargo Helicopter

Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2, the “Night Owls,” made history earlier this week when they completed the first “hot...

May 29, 2012
Engineers Develop Cheap Onboard Tracking System For UAVs

The popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs has exploded in just a few years. That’s the result of smaller,...

May 29, 2012
NATO Forces Procure Global Hawk Block 40 UAV

Global Hawk Block 40(RQ-4) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has been procured along with four small vehicles by...

May 29, 2012
Drone Lobbying Ramps up Among Industry Manufacturers

By Andrea Stone, Huffington Post It may be years before unmanned aircraft are common in the sky, but lobbyists for the...

May 28, 2012
FCC Explores Emergency Aerial Communications Using UAVs

The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to explore the use of Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture...

May 27, 2012
AeroVironment to Deploy Small UAS for Federal Communications Commission Post-Disaster Communications Demonstration

AeroVironment today announced it will employ its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to demonstrate aerial communications capabilities for the Federal...

May 24, 2012
Orbital to supply FlexDI engines for use in AAI UAS

Orbital is pleased to announce that it has been contracted to supply heavy fuel engines for use in AAI Unmanned...

May 24, 2012
ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System Exceeds 600,000 Flight Hours

Insitu announced today that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system has exceeded 600,000 combat flight hours, maintaining a 99 percent mission-readiness...

May 24, 2012
UAV Imaging System Produces 3D Models of Historical Monuments

University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained...

May 24, 2012
RASF Introduces IAI Heron 1 UAV

Singapore’s Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen officiated at a ceremony to inaugurate the Heron 1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...

May 24, 2012
Commercial UAV Launched by BlueSky for Aerial Surveys

Aerial survey company Bluesky has launched a fast response aerial survey service using state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles...

May 24, 2012
Aerospherical Systems Announces New Spherical Aircraft

Aerospherical Systems has announced an aircraft design which is a perfect sphere. The flying orb is called an Aerosphere™. Until...

May 23, 2012
AeroVironment Wins $5.1m Order for Switchblade UAS

AeroVironment, Inc. announced it received a contract modification effective March 20, 2012 from the U.S. Army Close Combat Weapons Systems...

May 23, 2012
Zala Aero unveils UAV upgrade

Zala Aero has launched the latest version of its Zala 421-16 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a focus on civil...

May 23, 2012
AeroVironment Wins $2.5M U.S Airforce Contract to Supply Digital Wasp AE Small Unmanned Aircraft System

AeroVironment today introduced the Wasp AE™ small unmanned aircraft system and announced that it has been accepted by the U.S....

May 23, 2012
Drone Program Aims To ‘Accelerate’ Use Of Unmanned Aircraft By Police

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to “facilitate and accelerate the adoption” of small, unmanned drones by...

May 22, 2012
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