Unmanned Systems

Investigators have concluded that pilot error caused an MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aircraft to crash during a training mission in Nevada 11 months ago, the U.S. Air Force announced May 11. […]

Aerovironment [AVAV] has unveiled a bird-sized miniature unmanned aerial system (UAS) whose small size allows launching from the palm of a hand and makes it difficult to detect while spying on […]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.  – Once a remote-controlled assault amphibious vehicle trundled ashore here, it stopped and released from its hold a ground robot that continued its way across the wide […]

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory has awarded a contract to Sensofusion to “further develop” the company’s Airfence system, which is designed to counter unmanned aircraft systems, the Finland-based firm […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) branch has selected a site in Mississippi for the flight testing of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) in support of […]

The U.S. Army has tapped three companies – AASKI Technology, Leidos [LDOS] and Textron [TXT] AAI Corp. – to share in a five-year, $900 million contract to provide technical services […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) announced last week that it recently demonstrated the ability of a Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle to detect enemy ground-based radar. During company-funded flight […]

The Navy announced this week that it has completed key tests of two unmanned aerial vehicles: the new MQ-8C Fire Scout helicopter and the future MQ-25 Stingray aerial refueler. Naval […]

Investigators concluded that pilot error caused an Air Force MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aircraft to crash at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan last year, the service announced April 13. According to Air […]

The U.S. Air Force is studying how to tap into the agility, speed and other advanced capabilities of small unmanned aerial vehicles that have proliferated in the private sector in […]