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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

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
Landmark Flight Brings Program One Step Closer to Demonstrating Autonomous Aerial Refueling Between Two Unmanned Aircraft

On Jan. 21, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center took a...

Mar 10, 2011
UAV Production Started in Azerbaijan

Azad System Co, a production branch of Defense Industry Ministry in Azerbaijan recently opened by President Ilham Aliyev, has started...

Mar 09, 2011
FLIR Systems’ Star SAFIRE 380-HD selected for GA-ASI Predator XP

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that the Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor has been selected by General Atomics Aeronautical...

Feb 22, 2011
Moog System Maneuvers Aircraft Primary Flight Surfaces During First Flight of X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System

Moog Inc. has announced that the Company supplied the flight control system that maneuvered flight surfaces on Northrop Grumman’s X-47B...

Feb 09, 2011
LynuxWorks Addresses Safety Requirements for NextGen UAVs at AUVSI 2010

LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, announced today that it will demonstrate its LynxOS®-178 and LynxSecure...

Aug 03, 2010
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