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Aurora Flight Sciences has developed a family of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
(SUAS) tailored for use in urban or crowded environments. These new SUAS are designed
to be lightweight, easily portable, deliver long endurance on quiet electric power,
and to provide multi-domain autonomous operation.
Skate UAS merges the simplicity
and endurance of a fixed wing platform with the maneuverability and mission flexibility
of a vertical take off and landing (VTOL) asset. Independently articulating motor
pods allow the Skate UAS to rapidly transition between vertical and horizontal flight.
Transferring from hovering to wingborne flight increases the endurance and range
of the system to levels characteristic of a fixed wing platform and far beyond those
of a traditional VTOL asset.
The thrust vectoring provided by the motor pods also enables extreme maneuverability,
allowing the Skate UAS to fly both vertically and horizontally indoors, enabling
rapid navigation of congested environments such as city streets or inside buildings.
Skate’s modular airframe provides a substantial sensor payload capability, as well
as quick deployment and easy field repair.
Aurora recognizes that today’s operations need high performing and logistically efficient
UAS to provide first-hand intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for pop-up
and fleeting threats. The new Aurora Skate SUAS puts this capability in the hands
of the individual warfighter.
View full page PDF of the Skate product page
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