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

First manned flight of QF16 Aerial Target Drone

The first test flight of Boeing’s QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target drone has been conducted with the U.S. Air Force...

May 14, 2012
Newtec Provides Key Satellite Communication Technology for EURO HAWK

Satellite specialist Newtec’s IP traffic enhancement and shaping technology Cross-Layer-Optimization™ has been implemented in the flagship EURO HAWK® Unmanned Aerial...

May 14, 2012
High Resolution 3D Sensor for UAV Collision Prevention

They can be deployed as additional surveillance resources during major events, or as high-resolution 3D street imaging systems. Intelligent swarms...

May 12, 2012
Raven Aerostar Integrates Vista Research Radar Onto Revolutionary Tethered Aerostat

Raven Aerostar successfully integrated and deployed a Vista Research Smart Sensing Radar System (SSRS) onto its proprietary TIF-25KH tethered aerostat....

May 10, 2012
Deployment Extended For K-MAX Unmanned Aerial Cargo Hauler

Two unmanned K-MAX helicopters have delivered more than one million pounds in less than four months in support of the...

May 09, 2012
GE Solve UAV ‘Flying Thermos’ Problem

Last spring, GE broke ground on a $50 million aviation research center at the University of Dayton in Ohio. When...

May 03, 2012
Lockheed Martin’s Shadow Hawk Munition Launched from Shadow UAS

Lockheed Martin successfully conducted the first launch of a Shadow Hawk precision-guided weapon recently from a Shadow 200 Unmanned Aircraft...

May 03, 2012
Hood Tech UAV Imagers Show Up Big at a Simulated Showdown

According to a recent article in Lookout Navy News Online, the use of Hood Tech’s imagers on board an unmanned...

May 03, 2012
Headwall Hyperspectral SWIR Sensors Selected for U.S. Navy UAVs

Headwall Photonics, a leading designer and manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging sensors, announced that its High Efficiency Hyperspec® SWIR (Short-wave, Infrared)...

May 01, 2012
Darpa Seeks New Sensor to Enable Missions in GPS-Denied Areas

Many U.S. Military systems, such as missiles, rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide accurate position, orientation and...

Apr 16, 2012
QinetiQ North America’s Tactical Robotic Controller Emerged in First Combat Role

QinetiQ North America today announced the first combat use of its Tactical Robotic Controller (TRC) in support of the US...

Apr 02, 2012
PHOTONIS Introduces Low-Light Digital CMOS Sensor

PHOTONIS SAS introduces the Lynx CMOS sensor, a new low-light digital image sensor designed for high performance under both daylight...

Apr 02, 2012
IAI UAV Systems Demonstrated at AUVSI

The annual convention of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) was held this year, for the first time,...

Mar 26, 2012
Skate SUAS Wins Border Security Product Challenge Award

Aurora’s Skate small unmanned air vehicle system (SUAS) was awarded first place in the 2012 Border Security Technology/Product Challenge at...

Mar 20, 2012
Boeing Phantom Eye Conducts Medium-Speed Taxi Test

Boeing today announced that the Phantom Eye high altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle has conducted its first medium-speed...

Mar 13, 2012
Maiden Flight of the Camcopter S-100 with Schiebel’s New Heavy Fuel Engine

Schiebel has announced the first flight of a heavy-fuel powered CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS (Unmanned Air System). The flexibility this engine...

Mar 12, 2012
COBALT 190 multi-spectral imaging sensor demonstrated on ARCTURUS UAV Test Flight

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today the successful integration of the COBALT™190 multi-spectral imaging sensor with ARCTURUS UAV T-20, and L-3...

Aug 17, 2011
Insitu Introduces Inceptor Small Unmanned Aircraft System

Insitu Inc. announced today that it has introduced the Inceptor small unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which will provide the public...

Aug 04, 2011
FLIR Systems’ Star SAFIRE® 380-HD successfully tested on Northrop Grumman Firebird

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that the Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared sensor completed successful flight operations on the Northrop Grumman...

Jun 16, 2011
NASA Global Hawk Takes the Earth’s Temperature Over the Pacific Ocean

A Northrop Grumman produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on...

Mar 22, 2011
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Flights Completed

Less than a month after completing the first flight of the U.S. Navy’s X-47B UCAS-Demonstration aircraft, flight test engineers from...

Mar 18, 2011
Northrop Grumman Completes Structural Proof Testing of Second X-47B Aircraft

The U.S. Navy’s second X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) will be able to withstand all of the structural stresses...

Mar 15, 2011
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation Sign MOU to develop UAS proposal

BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate exclusively on the preparation and submission...

Mar 15, 2011
Aerosonde(R) Unmanned Aircraft System to Support U.S. Air Force Academy Mission

HUNT VALLEY, Md., Mar 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a...

Mar 11, 2011
AAI Shadow(R) UAS Successfully Demonstrates Sense and Avoidance System

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

Mar 11, 2011
2nd Boeing-built Orbital Test Vehicle X-37B begins flight

Boeing has announced the successful launch of the second Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force...

Mar 10, 2011
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