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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

Goodrich to Exhibit Latest Sensors and Composite UAV Components at Eurosatory
Goodrich to Exhibit Latest Sensors and Composite UAV Components at Eurosatory

Goodrich Corporation is bringing the latest developments from its sensors and actuation businesses to Eurosatory in Paris, France on June...

Jun 06, 2012
MDA to provide UAS training to British Army
MDA to provide UAS training to British Army

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, has announced that it has signed a contract...

Jun 06, 2012
New Video Shows Aerobot Cinestar VTOL UAV in Action
New Video Shows Aerobot Cinestar VTOL UAV in Action

Aerobot has released a new video showing the Cinestar multi-rotor unmanned helicopter in action. According to the Aerobot website, the...

Jun 06, 2012
Supersonic Mini-drone Aims for Jet Speed Record
Supersonic Mini-drone Aims for Jet Speed Record

    Researchers at the University of Colorado are building the smallest supersonic jet engine ever made. Weighing just 22...

Jun 05, 2012
Military Video Surveillance Market Worth US$8 Billion in 2012
Military Video Surveillance Market Worth US$8 Billion in 2012

The global military video surveillance systems market will be worth US$8.81 billion this year, as the development of advanced motion-imagery...

Jun 05, 2012
Boeing Phantom Eye UAS Completes First Autonomous Flight
Boeing Phantom Eye UAS Completes First Autonomous Flight

Boeing’s Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system (UAS) completed its first autonomous flight June 1 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center...

Jun 04, 2012
U.S Army Orders AeroVironment RQ-11B Raven Small UAS and New Miniature Gimbaled Payloads
U.S Army Orders AeroVironment RQ-11B Raven Small UAS and New Miniature Gimbaled Payloads

AeroVironment, Inc. has received a $15,813,406 firm fixed-price authorization to perform on May 22, 2012 from the United States Army...

Jun 04, 2012
NASA Global Hawk UAV to be used for Hurricane Investigations
NASA Global Hawk UAV to be used for Hurricane Investigations

NASA will be sending unmanned aircrafts dubbed “severe storm sentinels” above stormy skies, beginning this summer and over the next...

Jun 04, 2012
Surf Life Savers to Monitor sharks & Swimmers with Small UAVs
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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 & 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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