AeroVironment Donates Over 100 Quantix Recon UAS to Ukraine
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby
At the moment, multi-domain robotic programs chief AeroVironment, Inc. introduced that it is going to be donating over 100 of its Quantix™ Recon unmanned plane programs (UAS), in addition to operational coaching providers, to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and territorial forces to help within the ongoing protection efforts in opposition to Russian invaders.
“Because the Ukraine navy’s struggle to guard their homeland and defend their nation’s freedom in opposition to Russia’s invasion intensifies, their want for options that may supply pressure safety and pressure multiplication capabilities continues,” stated AeroVironment chairman, president and CEO Wahid Nawabi, who introduced the donation to the Ambassador and the Defence Attaché on the Embassy of Ukraine. “This donation will present operators with a software that may fly undetected by enemy forces and unaffected by radio frequency jammers to ship correct and fast reconnaissance of distant, inaccessible areas of the dynamically altering battlefield.
“Utilizing the actionable intelligence gathered by the Quantix Recon, operators can conduct fast mission planning and verification to assist preserve Ukrainian floor forces out of hurt’s means. AeroVironment is honored to help the individuals of Ukraine,” Nawabi added.
The absolutely automated Quantix Recon UAS is light-weight and straightforward to deploy, providing customers on-demand actionable intelligence by way of high-resolution, georeferenced terrain, vegetation and infrastructure imagery. That includes a hybrid vertical takeoff and touchdown (VTOL) design, the UAS merges the VTOL advantages of a multirotor drone with the flight distance and velocity of a fixed-wing unmanned plane. Quantix Recon is ready to survey as much as 1.6 sq. kilometers (0.6 sq. miles), or 20 linear kilometers (12.4 miles), over the course of a 45-minute single battery flight.
The donation of the Quantix Recon UAS by AeroVironment is separate from the donations of different AeroVironment programs and UAS that the US Authorities is supplying to Ukraine. The primary half of the cargo of the donation is ready to be delivered this week, with operational coaching deliberate to start instantly.
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he obtained a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in know-how, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.
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