sUAS News

KVS Terratec, a global leader in geodata acquisition and analytics, has just announced the acquisition of Sevendof, a long-range drone infrastructure company, in a deal that will significantly increase the company’s competitiveness within a fast-growing market where unmanned aircraft (UA) are used for mapping and inspection purposes. Sevendof was founded in 2016, with the mission […]

On March 24, 2022, Canadian UAVs secured a Canada-wide Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) for the operation of its fleet of small Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). This first-of-its-kind permit issued by Transport Canada allows Canadian UAVs to perform BVLOS flight operations anywhere in Canada in Class G airspace, […]

Iris Automation has been granted a second waiver for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) autonomous operations on behalf of the City of Reno, this time utilizing its Casia G ground-based solution. The approval follows the recent award of a waiver for Iris Automation on behalf of the City of Reno’s Fire Department, using Casia X for autonomous flights. […]

UAVOS has successfully completed the S1-V300 Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) prototype designed to check basic aircraft systems. The advanced UAS model is based on the Saker MALE UAS design that achieved operational capability in 2020. The S1-V300 MALE UAS prototype is an upgrade to the unmanned system and features a […]

The Royal Navy has pushed two different drones to their limits to show how they could be used on front-line operations. The navy’s drone experts 700X Naval Air Squadron welcomed industry partners to their home base of RNAS Culdrose to test the two crewless aircraft. It is the second time the drones have been trialled with initial […]

Rocky Mountain Unmanned Systems Canada (RMUS Canada) has partnered with Drone Action 360 to create RMUS Quebec, to serve French-speaking customers throughout Quebec and Canada. RMUS Quebec will have a comprehensive portfolio of unmanned robotic solutions, including the Boston Dynamics Spot robot, U.S.-manufactured Blue sUAS options, DJI Enterprise products and fixed-wing aircraft, in addition to […]

vHive, a software solution that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous drone hives to create Digital Twins of their assets, announced today that it has secured $25 million in Series B funding. The funding round is led by PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth. Previous investors […]

Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI) has announced on March 29th that it had secured approximately 27 billion won worth of investment from IDG Capital, Korea Investment Partners, and DS Asset Management in recognition of its growth potential in the hydrogen mobility business. The funds will be mainly invested in developing logistics cargo drones with hydrogen fuel cell technology. DMI has […]

Cepton, Inc. (“Cepton”) (Nasdaq: CPTN), a Silicon Valley innovator and leader in high-performance MMT® lidar solutions, today announced the appointment of Hull Xu, the Company’s Vice President of Finance and Strategy, to the position of Chief Financial Officer, effective today. Mr. Xu will succeed Dr. Winston Fu, Ph.D., who will remain with the Company as an […]

MONTRÉAL, Québec/DALLAS, Texas, April 5, 2022 – Jaunt Air Mobility (“Jaunt”) announced that Calin Rovinescu, Air Canada’s recently retired President and Chief Executive Officer, and Mitch Garber, a global technology and growth capital investor have added their names as investors and advisors of Jaunt Air Mobility. “We are extremely pleased to have someone of Calin’s […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), a leader in Multi-mode Radar technology for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, introduces the Eagle Eye radar. The new MMR is installed and has flown on a U.S. Army-operated Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) UAS. Eagle Eye joins GA-ASI’s line of radar products, which includes the Lynx® MMR. Eagle Eye is a high-performance radar system that delivers high-resolution, […]

Ultra-reliable cellular connectivity across different carrier networks—at the same time and with real-time data—marks future of commercial drone operations, airborne autonomous mobility Auterion, the company building an open and software-defined future for enterprise drone fleets, is excited today to welcome Elsight to the growing Auterion ecosystem. Elsight delivers absolute connection confidence for drones, at any […]

Primoco UAV SE’s revenue in Q1 2022 were CZK 21.72 mil., representing an increase of 184% compared to the same period in 2021. EBITDA in Q1 2022 was CZK 12.9 million, which represents a year-on-year increase of 272%. Primoco UAV SE has also signed a contract to deliver an unmanned aircraft to a European client […]

DroneShield Limited (ASX:DRO) (“DroneShield” or the “Company”), an Australian/US global leader in Artificial Intelligence-based platforms for protection against advanced threats such as drones and autonomous systems, has today announced an enhanced version of its DroneSentry-C2 Command-and-Control software, in partnership with location intelligence firm, Nearmap (ASX:NEA). Nearmap provides city-scale 3D content, artificial intelligence data sets, geospatial tools, and high-resolution […]

FLYMOTION, a leading provider of unmanned systems, advanced technology, training, and services across public safety, government, and defense sectors, announces the launch of their subsidiary, Air, Ground, Maritime (AGM) Security Group. This new subsidiary will focus on specialized and scalable security services to meet the most rigorous operational needs of clients globally. AGM Security Group’s approach […]

São Paulo, Brazil– JETWIND is joining Drone Logistics Ecosystem as its first member from Brazil. JETWIND is joining DLE to collaborate with AirGo on lightweight standardised component solutions for the drone delivery systems. JETWIND provides innovative solutions for a wide range of segments that demand Imaging, Agriculture, Natural Resources Control, Traffic Management, Intelligence, Surveillance and […]

By Sian Discombe Wells Follow-up event to discuss the learnings from methane emissions measurement project led by Flylogix, NZTC and SeekOps. Between February 2020 and October 2021, working in partnership with NZTC, SeekOps and six major energy industry players, Flylogix operated 12,500 kilometres of unmanned flight, enabling 2.5 million methane concentration readings. The work was all […]

Lord of the Trees, a full ecosystem restoration company that uses precision drone planting technology to restore degraded landscapes, today announced a $1.25 million Pre-Seed funding round led by Draper Associates, a global venture capital firm investing in industry transforming companies. Lord of the Trees uses a combination of high technology (artificial intelligence, robotics, and drones) and Lo-Tek […]

Las Vegas, US- Drone Logistics Ecosystem and Manifest – The Future of Logistics are forging a partnership that will focus on educating the global logistics industry about the value of drone delivery systems. The parties have agreed to work together to further the mission of the DLE to establish regulations and drive further growth for […]

· Pioneering developments in the growth market for unmanned aerial vehicles and electric VTOL aircraft · The German Unmanned Aviation Association (VUL) presents the whole range of innovative aerial mobility on the ILA STAGE Advanced Air Mobility · Air taxi pioneer Volocopter displays the VoloCity at the ILA Berlin, 1 April 2022: Whether for the speedy delivery of medicines, […]

Suter Industries announced today that their Suter TOA288 24hp UAV engine was selected by Volansi to provide propulsion for their VOLY M20 and VOLY 50 Series Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) drones. Volansi is a leader in aerial drone logistics services for customers in the defense, commercial, and humanitarian markets. Volansi VTOL aircraft are designed […]

Baltimore-based AlarisPro, the leader in Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations and fleet management announces the release of their spare parts inventory module that compliments the company’s suite of advanced SaaS solutions. This new capability introduces a new age of streamlined inventory management and spare parts tracking for the first time in the unmanned industry. Seamlessly […]

From David R. Alexander, President of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI): The Australian Department of Defence has advised of its decision to cancel Project Air 7003, after nearly a decade of efforts toward that acquisition program. Project Air 7003 was expected to provide the Australian Defence Force with a reliable and desperately needed capability: […]

Volansi, Inc., a leader in autonomous Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) drone logistics, announced today the launch of their newest unmanned aerial vehicle, the VOLY 50, a multi-role, long-haul vehicle offering superior flight range and flexible payload capacity. The VOLY 50 series was designed to meet the exacting requirements of commercial customers operating in remote […]

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy Air, the company building the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system. As a first of its kind agreement in the U.S., FedEx Express will develop plans […]

AIROBOTICS (TASE: AIRO) An Israeli manufacturer of autonomous Unmanned Aircraft (drones) and Aerial Data Platforms is heading towards completion of a type certification process after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published the final airworthiness criteria for certification of its automated drone system marking an important milestone on its way to complete the first of its kind […]

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This is a shocker from the UK CAA, there needs to be a proper investigation into who has their hand up the regulator’s back. Smacks of corruption at the highest level. It’s not the helicopters they are worried about it’s the betting syndicates gaining a microsecond advantage from drone live feeds. They plainly don’t realise […]

Terra Drone Europe is the first Dutch company to receive the Light Unmanned Certificate(LUC). A LUC can be issued by the National Aviation Authority to a professional DroneOperator, after successfully demonstrating it operates under an approved safety management system, according to the specifications of EASA. In addition to being able toevidence the company is able […]

Zeitfracht Group orders 17 Wingcopter delivery drones and signs an option to purchase another 115 until 2023. Rostock Airport will be used for development cooperation and as a test field. Berlin, Weiterstadt, Cologne/Bonn, March 30, 2022 — German logistics and aviation holding Zeitfracht Group and its subsidiary German Airways will be among the first companies worldwide to commercially deploy drones […]

Zipline, the global leader in instant logistics, and the Ghana Ministry of Health today announced they have delivered one million COVID-19 vaccine doses via Zipline’s automated, on-demand delivery system. The partners also announced that Zipline has released select findings from a new third-party report, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which shows the […]

Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS* positioning solutions, has launched three new products: mosaic-CLAS, AsteRx-m3 CLAS and AsteRx SB3 CLAS, which support Japan’s high-accuracy Centimeter Level Augmentation Service (CLAS). These multi-frequency GNSS receivers support CLAS on a single device, thanks to the latest GNSS technology which receives the L6 signal, which transmits high-accuracy corrections from […]

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) and Quantified Energy Labs Pte. Ltd. (QE-Labs) today announce that the companies have signed an exclusive agreement to provide drone inspection services in the U.S. solar market. PVEL will be the provider of QE-Labs’ autonomous drone electroluminescence (EL) imaging technology for conducting front-end field inspections. The back-end data processing will be […]

Flying Forward 2020 (FF2020), an innovation and research project focusing on Urban Air Mobility solutions and funded by the European Union, will initiate autonomous drone demonstrations on High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTCE). In the last year, FF2020 has been developing solutions that will be tested in five living labs, starting in Eindhoven and continued in Milan, Zaragoza, Tartu and Oulu […]

For those who are around DJI Forum and other places you may have seen a post regarding the GPS Issues with the Mavic 3, this post makes reference to DJI using a different GPS module in the Mavic 3 than other models. Specifically the KT and KA variants of the UBX-M8030 GNSS Chipset. The UBX-M8030KT […]

German drone delivery pioneer Wingcopter has announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement with ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU joins Wingcopter’s Authorized Partnership Program (WAPP) and will act as a dedicated distributor and lessor for the Wingcopter 198, Wingcopter’s new eVTOL delivery drone, in Japan. On top, the Japanese conglomerate also decided to make a strategic investment in Wingcopter. […]

Skyroads AG, a global leader in automated flight that’s building digital roads in the sky, has received an initial order to deliver a 20 million USD order of SKYBOT-CAM systems to leading broadcast technology provider, Riedel Communications collaborating with SailGP Technologies. Skyroads is creating a system that will enable fully-automated passenger and cargo drones to fly over well-populated […]

Drone delivery training will be offered for the first time in Canada this spring by DroneTechnic, only 30 minutes away from Montreal. DroneTechnic – the first drone flight school in Canada to offer training programs fromVisual Line-of-Sight (VLOS) to Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight Operations (BVLOS), just received permission from Transport Canada to add drone delivery operations […]

Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, announces that Gözen Holding, one of Turkey’s leading aviation conglomerates and owner of Freebird Airlines, has committed to purchase or lease up to 50 VX4 eVTOL aircraft from Avolon, with the option to purchase or lease up to 50 additional aircraft. As a result of this announcement, Avolon has now […]

DJI’s fence-sitting ability is being tested by negative comments and allegedly hackers. Both sites in the Ukrainian conflict are using DJI. The Ukrainian government has asked for data from DJI on all its equipment flying in Ukraine and a no-fly zone. MediaMarktSaturn‘s website was inundated with negative comments after Ukrainian Deputy President Mykhailo Fedorov asked […]

DroneShield Limited (ASX:DRO) (“DroneShield” or the “Company”) is pleased to advise it has reached compliance with UK Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) SAPIENT format. SAPIENT is a common operating format for defence devices (with similar principles to the US Department of Defense ATAK system), originally developed by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). It was […]

IMCO Industries Group, a leading provider of comprehensive defense and HLSsolutions for air, ground, and maritime applications, will present its scalable TacticalTerrain Dominance Solutions at the FIDAE exhibition in Chile. IMCO Group and partners’ field-proven scalable Tactical Terrain Dominance solutionscombine multiple sensors, diverse manned and unmanned platforms, advanced videoand communications systems and unique electro-optics, all […]

In answer to requests by members, we are moving the ARPAS-UK AGM and Annual Conference online. We had planned to hold the AGM and annual conference as an in-person event in Rotherham, however, based on numerous requests, it makes sense to move this to a virtual event. We hope that by making the event a […]