sUAS News

DroneShield Ltd (ASX:DRO) (“DroneShield” or the “Company”), a worldwide leader in counterdrone solutions, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Teaming Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Thales Programas De Electronica Y Comunicaciones S.A.U. (“Thales”) (a Spanish subsidiary of Thales S.A.), whereby Thales will utilise and promote DroneShield’s products in its defence and security […]

Industry experts plan the future of unmanned aerial spraying Homeland Surveillance & Electronics, LLC (HSE-UAV) a veteran-owned, full-service UAV company, together with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA, ARS) and other subject-matter experts met for a 3-day Aerial Spray Conference focused on the expansion and integration of unmanned spraying systems. The workshop was created and hosted […]

Due to the growing number of inquiries concerning complete drive units for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), the German manufacturer of 2-stroke and Wankel engines, Sky Power GmbH, has intensified its cooperation with Mejzlik Propeller from the Czech Republic. The objective is the development of propellers coordinated individually to the engine and the customer application. “In […]

Altitude Angel, the global company leading Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM), has been named as a key delivery partner in the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) led UK UTM project. The news follows the aviation technology company’s recent success in delivering ‘Operation Zenith’: the world’s first comprehensive demonstration of how drones can be flown alongside aircraft in […]

SALINA — Students studying unmanned aircraft systems at the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus are receiving a rare flight experience in some of their courses that is positioning them at the forefront of the drone industry. Kansas State Polytechnic’s UAS flight and operations degree option is the first in the nation to introduce flying beyond visual line of sight into […]

Droneshield has today released an ASX announcement with regards to its evaluation by the United States Department of Defense. The announcement is as follows: DroneShield Ltd (ASX:DRO or DRO.AU) (“DroneShield” or the “Company”) is pleased to advise the market that the U.S. Department of Defense Asymmetric Warfare Group at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia has evaluated […]

With the drone industry expanding at an exponential rate, it’s unsurprising to see a range of industries and sectors start to unlock the potential that UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) offer. One particular industry that has embraced the drone revolution is utilities. Water company Severn Trent’s fleet of drones is generating huge savings in time and through improved efficiencies. Since Severn Trent made the strategic decision to […]

Leading automated drone startup Airobotics announced today that it is the first company in the United States to receive a Certificate of Waiver (CoW) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that combines three elements: flying Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) for automated drone operations, over human beings, with a visual observer that is not required to […]

The fixed-wing drone leader heads into 2019 with a more independent approach—its two co-leaders looking to build on the eBee X drone’s success by leveraging a wider array of strategic partnerships Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, December 6, 2018—senseFly, the industry’s leading provider of professional fixed-wing drone solutions and a subsidiary of Parrot Group, today announces the evolution […]

Siegen, Germany- As part of ongoing global expansion, Microdrones is proud to announce a merger with Schübeler Technologies. Since its founding in 1997, Schübeler has built a global business by providing advanced fan propulsion jets and lightweight composite materials fabrication. Offering a full product lineup of robust turbofans, jets, compressors, pumps, electric motors, carbon fibre […]

Indian Institute of Drones has trained Multirotor drone pilots to all FTOs in India organized by DGCA. Training was conducted for 5 days, which covers all the topics as mentioned in DGCA regulations book. This training includes theory classes, How to make a drone? And How to fly a drone? During training, our trainers followed […]

Drone Delivery Canada ‘DDC or the Company’ (TSX.V:FLTOTC: TAKOF), is pleased to announce that it has executed a commercial agreement with the Moose Cree First Nation to deploy DDC’s drone delivery technology platform with the Moose Cree First Nation communities. The Company is currently permitted to commercially operate its drone delivery platform within the Moosonee and Moose Factory communities with its […]

County Durham has joined a network of innovative cities and regions across Europe in an initiative to nurture the development of airborne smart mobility, which includes services such as air taxis and ambulances delivering medical equipment. The Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Initiative is part of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC), […]

Aeromao celebrates its 4th year as an official partner of Pix4D offering the Pix4DMapper Aeromao edition and Pix4D related products. The Pix4DMapper Aeromao Edition is a fully featured image processing software package bundled with an Aeromapper UAV system, that includes two perpetual licenses of the worldwide leader in photogrammetry software. This bundle offers the additional […]

TAKE $600 OR MORE OFF INDUSTRY LEADING SENSORS WHEN ORDERED IN 2018 In preparation for the 2019 growing season, Sentera is announcing a limited time price promotion for its most popular NDVI, NDRE (Red Edge), and multispectral crop scouting solutions. Through December 2018, you can save $600 or more off MSRP. This limited-time promotional pricing […]

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, December 5th, 2018 – Desert Rotor has officially opened a new global headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. Located at the heart of the commercial district in the Scottsdale Airpark. Desert Rotor designs and manufactures commercial unmanned ground control stations compatible with most leading UAV designs, autopilots and hardware. Desert Rotor ground control stations are […]

Geneva, 5 December 2018. Research specialists from the Aviation Research Center Switzerland (ARCS) commissioned by skyguide have demonstrated, together with telecom provider Swisscom, that Switzerland’s existing mobile telephony infrastructure is suitable for ensuring the safe performance of drone flight operations in Swiss airspace. A series of measuring flights showed that the exchange of data between […]

Zain Group (“Zain”), a leading Middle Eastern mobile and data services operator headquartered in Kuwait has entered into a Teaming Agreement with DroneShield Ltd (ASX:DRO) (“DroneShield”), a worldwide leader in counter-drone solutions, which will see the companies working together on meeting Zain’s customers’ requirements for counter-drone security solutions in the region. In October 2018, Zain Group announced the […]

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both defense and commercial applications, today announced it is supporting the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program to assess the environmental impact of the Woolsey wildfire in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area of Southern California. Burning over 96,949 acres, the devastating […]

Marking a truly historic moment in the sUAS history, NYPD has officially and publicly announced their addition of “crime-fighting drones” to their ranks. Led by their Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU), NYPD has added 14 drones to their arsenal to assist with their operations. FLYMOTION is pleased to have provided the consultation, equipment, training, and […]

Award-winning company Heliguy has entered into a strategic partnering agreement with Survey Solutions Scotland – the sole UK distributor for Delair UAV fixed-wing products – to offer clients the long-range, BVLOS-ready Delair UX11. This state-of-the-art UAV is a professional aircraft suitable for large-area mapping, with BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight)-ready capabilities and optional PPK (post-processed kinematic) for survey-grade results. Ruairi Hardman, […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Aerial Media (AAM) in collaboration with Advanced Aerial Education (AAE) is the first small unmanned aircraft service company in Alaska to obtain a certificate of waiver (COW) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for operations over people in the State of Alaska. The provisions of the waiver incorporate the scenario-based end […]

NASA has partnered with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, to successfully demonstrate the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems (known as UAS, or drones) on a use case to support emergency response and disaster recovery activities. This test, which happened in October 2018, connected JAXA’s Disaster Relief Aircraft Information Sharing Network, or D-NET, […]

SPH Engineering is announcing the latest update of its Drone Show Software — the world’s only widely available software for drone show management and control. Rotating dance moves, smoother movement and a virtual fence — the new Drone Show Software update focuses on making choreography even more precise, on viewer security, and on making drone shows easily […]

This program is under the governance of the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) which is working with ANRA Technologies as a UTM service provider (UTMSP) along with support from the appropriate UK Government regulators as well as an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) and other stakeholders. Currently, numerous UTM services are developing independently of any framework – potentially resulting in […]

Airbus Defence and Space announced the opening of the world’s first High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) flight base serving as the launch site for the Zephyr UAV in Wyndham, Western Australia. This site has been chosen due to its largely unrestricted airspace and reliable weather and is the result of significant investment by Airbus into its […]

Here is your chance to sit down and break pancakes with some of the people you have read stories about in the sUAS News over the last year. You never know: you may be sitting next to a few existentialists eating pigs in a blanket. But there won’t be any drone nihilists at this breakfast […]

Nevis Environmental provides survey services and specialist management of environmental issues across a project lifecycle from its offices in the Highlands and North of England. They were delighted to sign a memorandum of understanding with ROAVR – an aerial data provider to form a partnership to market the use of drones in environmental and ecological surveys […]

Measure, a leading international provider of aerial intelligence, has completed a drone flight in the DC Metropolitan Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ) as a result of a waiver granted by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Systems Operations Security unit. Washington DC’s FRZ was put in place in 2007 and prohibits aviation operations outside of the Department of […]

Vodafone is conducting 4G drone test trials at the BCN Drone Center to enable the massive use of drones in the near future. Soon, all drones equipped with a 5G SIM card will be able to be controlled and geo-localized simultaneously. This will also enable the possibility of landing them in case of accessing restricted areas […]

Dronefly.com is an innovative and exciting place to work for tech geeks and drone nerds. We love learning about new technologies and helping our customers find the perfect solution to fit their needs. Over the past four years, we have been recognized as a top DJI and FLIR Dealer and are still growing very rapidly! […]

UAVOS Inc. has successfully tested the new GLIDER flight algorithm for the VTOL UAV, featuring a high level of safety in case of failures of the UAV power plant in flight. Flight mode GLIDER not only allows the helicopter to automatically switch into autorotation mode when the engine fails, it also protects the power unit […]

africanDRONE (aD) is seeking a part-time (4 half-days per week) Project Manager in Nairobi, Kenya to assist the ExCo Fellow with project related tasks, but also independently grow the organisation. The Project Manager will be working directing with the ExCo Fellow but will be reporting into the COO in Cape Town. aD is incubated and supported by Code for Africa, […]

DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Polytechnic University of Turin in order to establish an official partnership in the fields of education and research. Celebrating the partnership, DJI has launched a short film that shows how drones are being used in a theoretical and […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced Earl Lawrence’s promotion to the Agency’s Executive Director for Aircraft Certification. Lawrence was previously Executive Director for the FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office. He succeeds Dorenda Baker, who retired Nov. 30 after a distinguished aviation safety career. Jay Merkle, Deputy Vice President […]

As event organisers look for new ways to amaze their customers, drone shows are becoming more popular than ever. Hundreds of light pixels in the sky, composing intricate patterns, words or even portraits in a delicate dance. Drone shows used to be a thing from the future, but in the past few years, they have […]

Like many people on November 8th, 2018, I was glued to the news about the explosive Camp Fire burning through the town of Paradise, California. At that point, I didn’t know just how devastating the fire would be, let alone that it would become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. No one […]

Flock have partnered with ICARUS, a leading commercial flight school in the UK, to provide free drone insurance to training pilots. Today, Flock have announced that they have teamed up with ICARUS, an industry renowned commercial drone flight school. Working together, the two companies are lowering the barriers to entry for pilots entering the UK’s […]

The British public remains sceptical about the use of drones, according to the latest figures released by the air traffic management service, NATS. Almost 80% of the 1,000 people surveyed by Ipsos MORI as part of NATS’ annual Aviation Index expressed concerns around privacy, while almost three quarters felt drones pose an ongoing safety risk […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) received a Special Airworthiness Certification in the Experimental Category from the FAA for its second MQ-9B SkyGuardian aircraft. The company-owned Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) – registered as N191FP and known as YBC02 – joins the first SkyGuardian in support of the MQ-9B development program. This certification permits YBC02 to […]

Lexington, Kentucky: Mobile Recon Systems today announces a new unmanned multi-rotor air vehicle (UAV) capable of lifting more than its own weight. This model, called “Dauntless”, is designed to set new records for what multi-rotor UAVs can carry. At 78 pounds, the Dauntless has easily lifted an additional payload of 100 pounds as a tethered quadcopter. […]

One of the new FAA mantras trifecta is “standards,” the other two are “we’re open for business” and “bring us a safety case.” I’ve touched on these before, and I’ll be writing another article addressing the absurdity (the good Lord knows we need some FAA leadership) as soon as I get done counting up my […]

ALTI UAS, world-leading unmanned aircraft developer and manufacturing company, launches a Search and Rescue version of the ALTI Transition VTOL UAV. This comes after some of the worst fires in South African history recently swept through the area. The ALTI Transition SAR ‘Orange’ is a specific version of the ALTI Transition designed for search and rescue missions. […]

Klau Geomatics, industry leader in PPK hardware and post-processing software, announced today its new PPK software for the DJI Phantom4 RTK drone. The software enables professional users to achieve the most accurate and reliable results with their P4RTK drone without running it in RTK mode. RTK requires continuous communication between the drone and base station, […]

Drone Delivery Canada ‘DDC or the Company’ (TSX.V:FLT OTC: TAKOF), is pleased to announce that Air Canada Cargo’s, Mr. Tim Strauss, has joined DDC’s Advisory Board to assist the Company to execute its commercial strategy. Mr. Strauss currently serves as Vice President of Cargo for Air Canada, Canada’s largest domestic and international airline. Air Canada serves more than 200 airports on six […]

A “Certifiable” (STANAG 4671-compliant) Ground Control Station (C-GCS) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) was used for the first time on October 4 to fly a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). The flight originated from Yuma, Arizona and flew GA-ASI’s MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPA. Aircraft flight critical functions were tested successfully, including hold modes, landing gear, flap operation, and […]

Post-FAA 2018 Reauthorization Drone Symposium and Pancake Breakfast. The venue is in the new US epicentre of Drones—Los Angeles, California, December 7th, 2018. We will meet for breakfast at the world famous Dinah’s Family Restaurant for pancakes, or pigs in a blanket if you’re not into the whole breakfast brevity thing. After breakfast, the […]

Drone Delivery Systems and FlytBase have just announced a partnership for the development of a precision landing kit, compatible with any delivery drone, to allow for secure and precise drone delivery to AirBox Home. AirBox is the world’s first smart drone delivery mailbox. Today, drones are readily being used to make deliveries in the medical […]

Sagetech Corporation, a maker of certified UAV avionics, this month demonstrated NATO Mode 5 encrypted interrogations/replies with a device weighing less than 6 ounces. The MX12B is an aviation transponder that enables small unmanned aircraft to interoperate in NATO military airspace, at minimal weight-cost. The event was hosted at a government facility near Patuxent River […]