If there is one word that can describe the commercial drone market over the last few years, it is 'hyped'.
Drones – or unmanned aerial vehicles – have been a boom industry, with billions of dollars' worth of funding being injected into nascent projects or plucky start-ups. Venture capitalists, for one, and tech geeks have bought into this hype wholeheartedly.
The technology has been billed as the answer to so many different industrial, societal and economic challenges that it is genuinely difficult to keep track of them all. UAVs are now offered not just for hobbyists but for infrastructure inspection,
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AeroVironment has been dropped from the hunt to provide the US Army with a Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS), leaving Griffon Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Nevada and Textron Systems in the running.
At FEINDEF in Madrid, Navantia, SAES and Perseo announced an intention to develop a line of uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs).
The UK MoD has released a request for information on small armed UAS which could be used by the British Army.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) has delivered the first new build MQ-9 Extended Range (ER) to the US Marine Corps (USMC).
The US has landed an MQ-9 Reaper UAV on a highway for the first time as part of Exercise Agile Chariot.
AeroVironment has introduced the Puma VTOL kit, designed for plug-and-play integration into Puma 2 AE and Puma 3 AE small uncrewed aircraft systems.
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