UASs – What Risk Do They Pose to People on Ground?
Researchers are developing methods to evaluate the risk posed by small unmanned aircraft to anyone on the ground. The research is key to enabling...
New UAV for Airborne Video Surveillance
A new UAV version developed includes a rough landing mechanism. The Supercam S450 is intended for real-time airborne video surveillance day and night. Series...
Next Stage of Maritime Unmanned Vehicles Program
A UK program achieves progress in the use of unmanned vehicles and autonomous systems in the maritime arena. The Maritime Autonomous Platform Exploitation (MAPLE)...
Promising Momentum in Robotics Research
A new interdisciplinary research center will focus on developing autonomous systems that think, act and assist independently, expanding the scope of human possibility to...
Solar powered UAS
During a keynote at the small unmanned systems business expo in San Francisco, CA., Alta Devices’ CEO, Christopher Norris, explained that small unmanned air systems...
Israel’s Unmanned Systems Event: Final Rehearsal
By iHLS NewsDesk
The final rehearsal for the unmanned systems event to be held at the Rishon Lezion YES Planet compound, Israel, on November 26,...
VTOL UAVs may appear in Russian Navy in one year
Research and development company Radar MMS is waiting for the Russian Navy to place orders for its Breeze, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL)...
Drones vs safety and privacy
President Barack Obama issued a memorandum to federal agencies to guard against abuse of data collected by drones. This ruling also stipulates a 180-day...
Four Decades Of Israeli UAV’s Technology
In the 1970’s, Israel was the world’s pioneer in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Today, Israel is still at the global forefront...
Elbit’s Hermes 450 May Change Agriculture As We Know It
The Elbit Systems Hermes 450 aircraft took off from the Hillsboro airport on May 20th. to start a summer-long project that will take pictures...
India Wants Predators, Technological Cooperation
India is looking to acquire a few Predator drones from the US, Defense News reports. Just days after India Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited...
Royal Navy’s New ‘Eye in the Sky’
UK warships are to benefit from a new surveillance capability as part of a 30 million pounds contract signed by MOD
ScanEagle is a maritime...
Improved Gray Eagle Flies More than 45 Hours
General Atomics, the U.S. unmanned air systems (UAS) manufacturer, announced the successful completion of the first of two planned U.S. Army endurance demonstration flights...
In a Decade: Armed Drones for Everyone
Unmanned systems 2014 - Virtually every country on Earth will be able to build or acquire drones capable of firing missiles within the next...
Growing interest in the Dominator XP UAS
The Mexican armed forces are operating the Aeronautics Dominator XP unmanned air system (UAS).Negotiations are underway with some other potential clients.
The first export contract...
Unmanned Military Systems: Formulating Policy
How should the State of Israel ready itself ahead of the advent of unmanned systems and the expanding uses and applications thereof?
Though Israel constitutes...
UAS Market to Reach $2.3 Billion by 2017
Homeland security and commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) are used by countries to protect their borders and get aerial views of commercial projects. Complex...
A UAV carrier – evolution or revolution?
By Arie Egozi
Unmanned air vehicles (UAV) systems carrier? Well, not in the near future but while until some years ago, the idea would have...
Xiaomi Mi Drone Undercuts DJI
Xiaomi is known for its smartphones. One of its latest, the Mi 5, is a direct competitor to Samsung’s Galaxy S7. The Mi 5...
Saab Counter-UAV Radar Gets New Capabilities
Saab has announced that it has made upgrades to the ability of its Giraffe surface radars to detect both UAVs and stealth-cloaked aircraft.
When a...
Unmanned Systems Collaboration Model Researched
The Georgia Tech Research Institute has developed Collaborative Unmanned Systems Technology Demonstrator (CUSTD) - an unmanned systems platform for performing collaborative autonomy research. The...
New Anti-Icing Technology for UAVs
In order to achieve maximum operational performance, unmanned aircraft systems must be able to complete missions in adverse weather conditions, such as light to...
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This Combat Robot Just Fired Anti-Tank Missiles During Live Trials
Integrating heavy weapons onto compact robotic ground vehicles has become a growing focus for modern militaries, but the engineering challenge is significant. Small unmanned...
