October 2009

• Yellow Jacket Fuses MASINT, IMINT, UAVs to Hunt IEDs
• DARPA's Foliage-Penetrating Radar Tested on A160T
• PacBot Operators get the 'Novint Touch'
• IAI Introduces REX, an Infantry Friendly Robot
• Hightech Road Warriors
• Army Aviation Expands Helicopter - Unmanned Systems Cooperation

September 2009

• G-NIUS Expands Guardium Family with Logistics Carrier Variant
• IAI Shows Progress with Mosquito Micro UAV
• Israel Embarks on a development of advanced UGV

August 2009

• G-NIUS Expands Guardium Family with Logistics Carrier Variant
  Unmanned Vehicles Having a Field Day at AUVSI's 5th Unmanned Systems Demonstration
• Brazilian Federal Police Evaluates Israel's Heron UAVs

July 2009

• Patroller UAV Completes Flight Testing Campaign
• Dominator II - an Unmanned DA-42 Performs First Flight
• Excalibur VTOL UCAV Demonstrated in Flight

June 2009

• Northrop Grumman Displays BAMS Modelled Global-Hawk
• Unmanned Assets Could Save 75% of Cost of Anti-Piracy Operations
• Elbit Systems Unveils Hermes90
• Israeli Unmanned Helicopters and Urban Mules
• Israel Displays new Small UAVs
• Israeli Medium Altitude, Long Endurance Platforms
• U.S. Southern Command Evaluates the role of UAVs in Counter Drug Operations
• Unmanned Power Gliders Assume Long Endurance Surveillance Patrols
• IAI/Elta has unveiles TASCAN targeting pod
• EADS Unveils Advanced UAV at the Paris Airshow
• India Orders HAROP Loitering Weapon for $100 Million
• Loitering Weapons are making a Comeback
• Heron MALE UAVs Assume maritime Surveillance Roles
• Delilah - The IAF Loitering Missile
• Stealthy, Persistent, Perch and Stare Air Vehicle System (SP2S)
• Boeing Submits Proposal for USMC Unmanned Cargo Aircraft Demonstration
• Pentagon’s unmanned systems spending Tops $5.4 billion in FY2010
• Horizon Introduces a Lightweight Fuel cell for UAVs
• Rafael introduces RecceLite wide area Recce pod for UAV’s
• More than Just a Weather Forecast

May 2009

• Saab, Swiss UAV Partner to Offer a Combined Family of VTOL UAVs
• QinetiQ Awarded $45 Million to Produce Seven Zephyrs for the U.S. Navy
• GD, Elbit Systems' form Joint Venture to Market UAS in the USA
• IAI Introduces a Naval Rotary UAV at IMDEX 09
• 'Phantom Ray' to Revive Boeing's X-45C Unmanned Combat Aircraft
• SIGINT Payload for Enhanced Desert Hawk III Mini-UAVs

April 2009

• Boeing, Northrop Grumman to Develop New Unmanned Systems
• Northrop Grumman Acquires Swift Engineering KillerBee UAS Line
• DARPA Contracts Lockheed Martin to Build High Altitude, Long Endurance Airship
• Avenger - A Stealthy Combat UAV from General Atomics
• UAV Sale Marks a New Milestone in Russian-Israeli Defense Relations
• Raven UAV Demonstrates Persistent Surveillance on a 30 Hour Mission

March 2009

• Future Combat Systems UVS Complete Preliminary Design Reviews
• Israel Unveils Loitering Anti-Missile Drone
• Herons, Eagles and Reapers Soar over Afghanistan

February 2009

• USAF Develops Aerial Refuelling Support for Unmanned Systems
• New Datalink Quadruples Raven's Operability

December 2008

• Turkey steps up UAV reconnaissance operations
• UCAS-D Marks 'Sea Change' in Naval Strike, ISR Capabilities
• Israeli battalions to get Skylark UAVs

November 2008

• Robotics, UGVs and Remotely controlled systems
• Dragon Runner Field Transformable Robot
• iRobot Introduces SUGV 300 Series
• Wall Crawler Robot from SRI
• Robotic Mule to Support the future Warfighter
• ANS Turns Combat Vehicles into Autonomous Platforms
• Unattended, remotely Controlled Weapons
• Honeywell to deliver 90 Micro Air Vehicle (MAV)
• New Life for the Hunters (UAVs)

September 2008

• AAI Offers Multi-UAS Integration with STANAG 4586 Compliant Ground Control 'OneSystem' GCS
• Raytheon Offers More Efficient Ground Control for the Predator
• IDF Displays New Robotic & Remotely Controlled Systems
• U.S. Army Orders 17 Shadow 200 UAV Systems
• Lightweight InGaAs-SWIR Flight Tested on Scan Eagle
• Australia Cancels Tactical UAV Program

August 2008

• Army Sponsored Team Demonstrates
  Airspace Deconfliction of Multiple UAVs
• Persistent 'Perch and Stare' Wasp Micro-UAV Derivative
• FireScout is Preparing for Mission - Technical & Operational Evaluation
• BAE Systems Herti - Program Update
• BAE Systems Embraces the UAS Challenge
• First Watchkeepers Are Expected at ParcAberporth By Fall
• Washington Moves to Offer Predator Bs to Germany, Italy
• BAE Systems, MOD Launch MANTIS UAS Program

July 2008

• Dassault AVE-D Drone Performs First Autonomous Flight
• General Atomics Delivers 8th Lynx II for US Army's SkyWarrior UAV
• SOCOM Selects the Puma for Hand-Launched Multi-Purpose UAV

June 2008

• Warrior Aero-Marine Unveils Gull 36 Unmanned Flying Boat
• Prioria Launches the Maveric 150 Hand Launched Micro UAV
• V-STAR UAV - the "HUMVEE of the Air"
• RAF Predator B (Reaper) fires weapons for first time
• First MAARS Weaponized Robot Delivered for Testing
• HERON TP Promoted for Strategic ISR in Germany, France and Spain

May 2008

• More TALONs for the U.S. Military
• AeroVironment to Supply Ravens to the Dutch Army
• AeroVironment to fly a 10 gram Nano Air Vehicle demonstrator
• Fire Shadow Loitering Munition Demonstrated in First Flight
• Watchkeeper's First Flight
• Raytheon, Swift Engineering Team Again to Bid for Future USMC UAV

April 2008

• Global Hawk RQ-4N UAV to Perform Maritime Surveillance for the U.S. Navy

March 2008

• French Special Forces Select Israeli Skylark I Mini UAVs from Elbit
• British Army Phase Out Pheonix for Hermes 450, Desert Hawk III
• MQ-8B FireScout to Demonstrate Maritime Radar Operability
• ICx Technologies to Develop a new Radar for GDRS's Patrol Robot
• Puma Small UAV Flys 9 hour Mission Powered by Fuel-Cell Technology
• LANdroid Robots to Support Communications in Urban Combat

February 2008

• U.S. Army Orders Ravens for SOCOM & Other Services
• U.S. Navy Contracts Honeywell to Deliver 185 Micro Air Vehicle Systems
• ODF Introduces a new Sensor for Sub-Surface Reconnaissance

January 2008

• Field Testing of SUGV, MAV Could Lead to
  Early Fielding of FCS Components
• New Hyper-spectral Sensor Automatically
  Finds Targets over a Wide Area
• General Atomics Team with Sener, Promoting Predator in Spain
• United Kingdom - MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aircraft

December 2007

• 'Digitized Combat Group' demonstrates Integrated Sensors
• Skylark II Electrically powered Mini-UAV Wins first sale in Korea
• Unmanned vehicles Demonstrate Convoy Movement Skills for FCS

December 13, 2007

• Xenonics develops High Intensity Airborne Illuminator for UAVs

Nov 30, 2007

• Aviation and Unmanned Systems at AUSA 2007
• Nighthawk Micro UAV to be launched from vehicles

Nov 22, 2007

• Wasp III MAVs for Marine Corps' Platoons

Nov 16, 2007

• Raytheon Selected for Army Common Sensor Payload
• 198 Radiation Detectors Delivered to Equip US Navy Robots

Nov 14, 2007

• BAE Systems to Develop Underground Object Mapping Technology
• IDF to Upgrade and Expand Hermes 450 UAV Fleet
• Raytheon acquires Sarcos' Robotics technology
• Reapers Gather in the Afghan Sky

Nov 4, 2007

• Unmanned Ground Systems & Robotics
• Remote Weapon Systems
• Panoramic Vision Systems

Oct 26, 2007

• Unmanned Systems at DSEi-2007

Sept 26, 2007

• AeroVironment Launches Global Observer Program for the US Special Operations Command
• DTI to Continue Studying Air Delivered UAVs
• Pentagon Adds $16 Million to Viper Strike

Sept 20, 2007

• New Class of Close Support UCAVs
• Review of the latest UAV trends at AUVSI 2007
• High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Platforms
• US Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Program
• Proxy Aviation to Offer Tactical Armed UAV
• Excalibur - a Close Support UCAV from Aurora

August 1, 2007

• US Navy Awards UCAS-D Demonstration Contract to Northrop Grumman
• Two Predator UAVs Lost in Two days at Balad airbase in Iraq

July 20, 2007

• Predator Combat UAV Patrols to Nearly Double by 2010
• Marines to Operate Shadow TUAV
• ScanEagle Deployment in Iraq Could Earn Boeing $381 Million

July 3, 2007

• Israel, Germany Cooperate in the Development of Loitering Weapons

June 12, 2007

• Hermes 900 Medium Altitude, Long Endurance (MALE) UAV

June 7, 2007

• Hermes-450 to Fill UK ISTAR Gap Until the Watchkeeper Arrival

June 4, 2007

• RAFAEL Introduces Extended Skylite-B Mini UAV

May 16, 2007

• DARPA Demonstrates Control, Exploitation of Multiple UAVs
• Proposed Cuts to Eliminate Manned Ground Vehicles, MULE
• New Digital Datalink Optimized for Urban, Clutered Environment

May 11, 2007

• Micro-Air Vehicles to Get Nav-Aids Based on Insects, Bats Senses
• New USAF UAV Wing Tasked With Global Recce & Strike
• Killer-Bee TUAVs Extend Communications Over-the-Horizon

May 10, 2007

• APKWS - a Step Closer to Production
• New UAV Wing Gets Predator Simulators
• Lockheed Selected to Develop a New Radar for Army UAVs

May 7, 2007

• General Atomics to Develop 'Block X' Predator for the USAF

April 25, 2007

• iRobot: Sales are Growing amidst Deepening Losses

April 23, 2004

• Boeing and iRobot Team to Offer COTS based Small UGVs
• Foster-Miller Acquires Two Pittsburgh Robotics Companies

April 11, 2007

• Block 20 Global Hawk Begins Test Flights

April 10, 2007

• iRobot Receives $14 Million Order for PacBots

Mar. 16, 2007

• USAF Awards $287 Million for Five Global Hawks
• First Reaper Joins Unmanned Attack Squadron

Mar. 9, 2007

• Israel Air Force Receives Strategic UAV from IAI/Malat
• Germany Exercises Option for 22 PacBot EOD Robots

Mar 8, 2007

• Elbit Expands Range of Autonomous Ground Vehicles
• IAI's Ramta Introduces Heavy Engineering UGVs
• Elbit Systems Unveils VIPeR a Portable Combat Robot
• Lockheed Martin Unveils 2.75" Laser Guided Rocket

Mar 7, 2007

• Bobcat Based EOD Robot Sees First Action in Gaza
• US Army to Enhance Cerberus Security Sensor Towers
• EDO Supports Counter-Mine Unmanned Surface Vessels

Mar 1, 2007

• Viper Strike Guided Weapons Tested Against Moving Targets

Feb 22, 2007

• Interceptor - Unmanned Surface Vessel Unveiled
• More Ravens for U.S. Army, Marines
• USAF Battlelab To Evaluate Cooperative UAV Operations

Feb 13, 2007

• Airborne Demonstrates a new Tactical Parachute
• iRobot Introduces new Pacbot EOD Robot

Feb 11, 2007

• Australians Conducts Sea Trials for Aqua Puma
• Scan-Eagle Demonstrates STANAG 4586 support

Feb 2, 2007

• Alenia Aeronautica Resumes Sky-X Testing in Italy

Feb 1, 2007

• German MoD Launches a € 430 million Euro Hawk
• Spector Robot Could Improve Checkpoint Security

Jan 30, 2007

• Bomb-Sniffing PackBots for the U.S. Forces

Jan 26, 2007

• US Navy, Marines to Pursue Joint Small, Tactical UAV

Jan 5, 2007

• Boeing Provides UAV Services for Australian Troops

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