Aerial Systems[LOGISTICS-UAV]
Heavy-lift aircraft that places supplies at a forward position and releases them accurately, in hover or on the move.
- Payload mass
- On request
- Operating radius
- On request
- Release accuracy
- On request
- Release
- Powered hook
Overview
Resupplying a position that takes half a day to reach on foot is a scheduling problem before it is a flying problem. A heavy-lift aircraft that can place a load within a few metres turns that half day into twenty minutes.
The aircraft carries an under-slung load on a powered release, flies a planned route and either lands, hovers and lowers, or releases on a computed drop solution. Release accuracy is the trained skill, which is why the same release model underpins the payload-drop trainer.
System qualities
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Placed, not dropped
Hover-and-lower for fragile stores, computed release for speed. Both are planned before launch and flown the same way every time.
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Load that does not swing
Attachment geometry and flight limits keep an under-slung load stable enough to fly a route rather than nurse it.
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Thin air included
Payload and range are quoted against the altitude of the receiving position, not against sea level.
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Trained on the ground first
The same ballistic model runs in the payload-drop trainer, so operators arrive having already been scored on the release they are about to make.
Specifications
Figures marked undisclosed or on request are released against a stated requirement.
Airframe
- Configuration
- Multirotor, heavy lift
- Maximum take-off mass
- On request
Payload
- Mass
- On request
- Release mechanism
- Powered hook, commanded from the station
- Release modes
- Hover and lower, or computed release on the run
Performance
- Operating radius
- On request
- Service ceiling
- On request
- Wind tolerance
- On request
- Endurance with maximum payload
- On request
Accuracy
- Release
- On request
- Scoring
- Every release measured for miss distance and impact energy
Documentation
- Aerial Systems overviewAvailable on request
Applications
Works with
These are built to operate together, on one network and one picture.
Deliver to the post.