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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
