Unmanned News & Articles

Rotary UAS Achieves World’s First Military Certification in its Class

The design, development, production and support of Leonardo’s AWHero Rotary Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) meet the requirements of the military airworthiness authorities to provide high levels of safety, reliability and mission availability

Nov 03, 2021
US Air Force Program to Develop Jet UAS for Manned-Unmanned Teaming

Kratos’ Off Board Sensing Station UAS is a low-cost Autonomous Collaborative Platform designed to employ weapons, sensors, and other effects that generate affordable, force multiplier combat power with a forward force posture

Nov 03, 2021
Sagetech Avionics Wins Homeland Security Grant

Sagetech Avionics has been awarded a one million-dollar grant to fund further development of a mid-air conflict management and collision avoidance system.

Nov 02, 2021
Cooperation Agreement Signed for Advanced UAV Production in Romania

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and IAR-Brasov will develop advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based on IAI’s Tactical Heron, with design, production, and integration, assembly and maintenance all completed in Romania

Nov 02, 2021
Latvian National Armed Forces Order UGVs for Explosive Ordnance Disposal

AeroVironment subsidiary Telerob will deliver its telemax EVO HYBRID and tEODor EVO Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) to identify, disarm and render safe explosive devices

Oct 27, 2021
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Evaluated by French Navy

Embarked on the French Navy’s Offshore Support & Assistance Vessel Rhône, ECA GROUP’s A18D Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) performed a variety of missions to precisely map the relief and sea beds down to 3000m depth

Oct 27, 2021
Drone and Pilot Location Solution Developed Alongside Servicemen and Women

Citadel Defense’s Titan Drone Finder solution allows operators to locate the target drone, track the flight path, and autonomously neutralize threats that cross a user-defined alert zone

Oct 27, 2021
US Army Exercises Final Contract Option for UAS Radio Frequency Modifications

Under this final contract option, AeroVironment will deliver flight control system kits, ground control stations and tail booms for the Army’s existing fleet of Raven tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

Oct 27, 2021
Next-Generation Tactical Quadcopter Unveiled

Teledyne FLIR has released the ION M640x tactical Unmanned Aerial System featuring a near-infrared laser illuminator that enables operators to pinpoint objects of interest for increased coordination and visibility for other mission participants

Oct 26, 2021
Handheld Air/Ground Interoperability Solution for Defense Innovation Unit

Auterion Government Solutions will extend the capabilities of its Skynav handheld controller and further develop it to accept both external radio integration and embedded radio integration options via an interchangeable module

Oct 25, 2021
Maritime Sensor-To-Shooter Capability Demonstrated at Unmanned Systems Exercise

This was the first successful cross-domain, and interoperability to interchangeability-enabled maritime sensor-to-shooter demonstration of AeroVironment’s Puma 3 AE unmanned aircraft system and Switchblade 300 tactical missile system

Oct 21, 2021
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