May

• 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

2006 news