UAS VISION
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A Labor Day celebration display created by over a thousand drones dotting the night sky in the Chinese city of Xi’an should have been a sight to behold. And for the 100,000 or so spectators, it was—but not necessarily for the right reason. Continue reading
Textron Systems unveiled its X5-55 vertical take-off and landing engineering testbed at the AUVSI Xponential show in Denver, Colorado, on 1 May. Continue reading
The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance selected Raytheon as a key partner in the development of America’s first and most advanced unmanned aircraft system-testing airspace corridor in New York state. Continue reading
AeroVironment, Inc. and ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH, a system and software house in Germany for development and service, have announced that the German Navy has acquired the AeroVironment Puma maritime unmanned aircraft system. Continue reading
Skysense, a provider of airspace surveillance equipment, Wireless@KTH, KTH centre for wireless systems and the Swedish Sea Rescue Society (SSRS), the NGO providing maritime search and rescue in Swedish waters, partner to make drones visible and able to detect manned aircraft. Continue reading
Norwegian company Robot Aviation – a producer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems – has acquired Sweden-based UAS Europe AB. Continue reading
COPTRZ has been announced as the exclusive supplier of UAV solutions to Defence Forces Ireland. The force has invested in their drone fleet with the purchase of four specialist UAVs capable of carrying both thermal and visual cameras simultaneously. Continue reading
The ScanEagle 3 is a simultaneous multi-mission capable commercial variant of ScanEagle/Integrator military UAS. Being a commercial variant, the UAS is not covered by U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), allowing accelerated global acquisition by customers. Continue reading