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C-Astral to use Alta PVs to support long endurance UAVS
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
C-Astral Aerospace and Alta Devices have announced that Alta's world record-breaking solar technology will be used to significantly extend the endurance for the...
AAI gets $206 million U.S. Army contract for Australian Shadow drone
Nov 01, 2016 (UPI)
AAI Corp. has been awarded a $206 million U.S. Army contract for work on the Australia's RQ-7B Shadow drone program. The cost-plus-fixed-fee foreign military sa...
Northrop Grumman receives $190 million Hunter drone contract
Nov 01, 2016 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has received a $190 million U.S. Army contract for support work on the MQ-5B Hunter drone program. In particular, the cost-plus-f...
U.S. Navy's first drone squadron stands up
Nov 01, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy's first drone squadron was stood up Friday at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla. The new unit will be known as Unmanned Patrol Squadron 19 and i...
Iran unveils 'suicide drone'
Oct 26, 2016 (AFP)
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they had developed a "suicide drone" capable of delivering explosives to blow up targets at sea and on land....
Silent Falcon and MicroPilot succeed at NASA UTM 2016
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
Silent Falcon conducted a series of successful Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) demonstration flights as part of NASA's Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Mana...
Drones help identify post-Hurricane Matthew needs in Haiti
Oct 24, 2016 (AFP)
On a football field in the Haitian town of Jeremie, children gather to gape at a drone preparing to take off and document damage to the area caused by Hurricane...
General Atomics to provide Gray Eagle drone support
Oct 24, 2016 (UPI)
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has received a $310 million contract for the U.S. Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone program. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contra...
Airbus Helicopters, DCNS team for future helicopter drone
Oct 21, 2016 (UPI)
French naval defense company DCNS and Airbus Helicopters are to pool their expertise to design a future helicopter drone system for the French navy. The system ...
Northrop Grumman gets $35 million MQ-25 drone support contract
Oct 20, 2016 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman has received a $35 million contract to conduct risk reduction activities in support of the U.S. Navy's MQ-25 Stingray drone. Work under the cos...
New technology may allow drones to recharge midflight
Oct 20, 2016 (UPI)
Drone flight times could soon be unlimited. Researchers believe a technology called inductive coupling can allow drones to recharge midflight. Inductive couplin...
Navy selects radar for unmanned MQ-8C Fire Scout
Oct 19, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy has ordered Leonardo-Finmeccanica's Osprey AESA radar for its newly-upgraded MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. Under a contract issued by the ...
American Aerospace Completes First ever Drone-Based Hurricane Response Exercise
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
American Aerospace Technologies (AATI), the pioneer in long range drones for civilian applications has announced that it successfully tested drone-based wireles...
Medical delivery drones take flight over Rwanda
Oct 14, 2016 (AFP)
"Three, two, one, launch!" And with that, catapulted from a ramp, the small fixed-wing drone buzzes into the air towards its pre-programmed destination, the Kab...
US Air Force's Space Plane Has Been in Orbit for 500 Days, But Why?
Oct 13, 2016 (Sputnik)
The US Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has now spent more than 500 days orbiting the Earth, without statement or explanation.The 29-foot unmanned plane i...
IS drone kills Kurdish fighters, hurts French troops
Oct 12, 2016 (AFP)
A remote-controlled jihadist hobby plane rigged with hidden explosives killed two Kurdish fighters and injured two French special operations troops near Mosul, ...
Historic Solar Impulse team planning drone
Oct 10, 2016 (AFP)
Circling the globe in an aircraft that used no fuel would be enough for some to rest on their laurels, but the pilots of Solar Impulse 2 on Monday spoke of thei...
Thales ready for Royal Navy test of its unmanned systems
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Thales has announced it will be playing a major role in a large Royal Navy demonstration this month to determine the feasability of using unmanned systems in a ...
Drone safety: User-centric control software improves pilot performance and safety
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
A new study into the safety of drone control interfaces suggests that an overhaul of remote control methods ranging from joysticks to smartphone apps could redu...
45 nations sign declaration on export, use of armed and strike-enabled drones
Oct 06, 2016 (UPI)
The United States and 44 other countries issued a joint declaration Thursday regarding the responsible export of armed and strike-enabled drones, the State Depa...
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