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

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
Low Cost UAV AutoPilot Launched

3D Robotics has released its AdruPilot Mega 2.0 AutoPilot. Seen at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, the APM2 is...

May 22, 2012
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Market to Reach $7.26bn in 2012

Visiongain’s analysis finds that the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) market will reach a value of $7.26bn in 2012, as UAVs...

May 22, 2012
Unmanned Aircraft with Vertical Takeoff “Flexrotor” Tested

The United States is testing a new unmanned aircraft (UAV) with vertical takeoff and landing “Flexrotor” whose development is commissioned...

May 22, 2012
ITT Exelis Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract to Protect UAV Data

ITT Exelis has been awarded an Air Force Cryptologic Systems Division contract to deliver prototype self-encrypting drives. These secure solid...

May 22, 2012
Elbit Systems wins $160m UAS contract

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded an approximately $160 million contract by a European customer, to supply...

May 22, 2012
Iraq Protects Oil Platforms with U.S. UAVs

    Iraq is buying unmanned drones from the United States to help protect its southern oil platforms as the...

May 21, 2012
KONGSBERG Awarded EUR 28M Software Development Contract

During NATO’s Summit in Chicago, KONGSBERG signed a EUR 28 million contract with Northrop Grumman ISS International Inc for the...

May 21, 2012
Washington Turns to Contractors for ISR Operations

At first, UAVs were owned, operated and serviced by the armed forces. Then, faced with shortages of available equipment and...

May 20, 2012
Raytheon Awarded $85M Contract for Griffon Missiles

Engineers at the Raytheon Co. Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., are moving ahead with a project to deploy a...

May 20, 2012
Israel Fixes & Returns Four IAI Heron UAVs to Turkey

In another possible sign of a thaw in the icy relations between Israel and Turkey, Israel has fixed and returned...

May 19, 2012
UAV Flight Training and Simulation Market Worth $451.9m in 2012

Visiongain’s analysis indicates that the UAV flight training and simulation market will reach a value of $451.9m in 2012, as...

May 18, 2012
Egypt Produces UAV in Cooperation With China

Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization, Hamdy Weheba said that Egypt has started the second phase to produce 12...

May 18, 2012
ESTEIO and SIMEPAR form Partnership for Mapping and Monitoring Using UAVs

ESTEIO Engenharia e Aerolevantamentos S.A. and Instituto Tecnológico SIMEPAR signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement that visualizes the joint action of...

May 17, 2012
Police UAVs: Nearly limitless potential

Article by Doug Wyllie. Original source: Police One Probably the most obvious use for a UAV in law enforcement is for search...

May 17, 2012
AeroVironment Switchblade UAV Pursued by Marine Corps

The Marine Corps is taking steps to procure its first “kamikaze” drone in an effort to provide small units the...

May 17, 2012
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