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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Experts Claim Ceramic Engine is Future of Aviation
Aerospace engineering experts Drs Omid Gohardani and Amir S. Gohardani have proposed a novel aerospace propulsion concept for future greener...
Aeronautics Orbiter II Mini UAV Wins Finnish UAV Bid
Finland’s Ministry of Defense has selected Israeli company Aeronautics for a 20-year-program to equip, train and support tactical ground forces...
UAS Procurement Tops Air Force’s Spending List
The unmanned aerial systems (UAS) market accounted for $5.25 billion of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) budget in 2010,...
New Open Payload Architecture Validated by GA-ASI & UK Partners
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance...
