AEROSONDE UAS
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Designed for expeditionary land- and sea-based operations and equipped for simultaneous day/night full-motion video, communications relay, signals intelligence and a customer-selected payload in a single flight, Textron Systems’ Aerosonde Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) family of products delivers reliable, multi-mission performance in a class by itself. It is field-proven with more than 600,000 flight hours, including desert heat and Arctic cold.
We also offer turnkey, contractor-owned, contractor-operated (COCO) services with our systems, operators and trainers. Our hybrid approach provides hands-on training for customer staff while we launch operations.
SYSTEM CAPABILITIES:
- Covert operation, with low visual and auditory signature
- Proven performance with heavy-fuel engine including JP-5, JP-8, F44, Jet-A, Jet-A1
- Multi-INT capabilities with up to six payloads in a single flight
- Over 40 payloads available including:
- Full-Motion Video (FMV) and day/night imaging
- Maritime Wide Area Search
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
- Automatic Identification Systems (AIS)
- Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)
- Electronic Warfare (EW)
- Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)
- Communications Intelligence (COMINT)
- Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
- 3D mapping
- Voice communications relay
- Ad-hoc networking (MANET)