Maritime Drones & UAS

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Airbus – Flexrotor

Group 2 VTOL UAS for Military Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, & Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Missions

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Austars Model

Advanced VTOL & Fixed-Wing UAVs | State-Of-The-Art Technologies for Unmanned & Autonomous Aircraft

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Skyeton

Small Tactical UAS (Group 2 / NATO Class I) for Long-Range ISR Missions

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TEKEVER

Fixed-Wing UAV Systems: Modular VTOL, Long-Range Maritime UAV, Tactical ISR UAS

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Volatus Aerospace

Drone Technology Supplier & Drone Service Provider for Public Safety, Transportation & Training

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Altus LSA

Innovative Turnkey UAS Solutions for Mission-Critical Civilian & Defense Applications

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Aurora Flight Sciences

Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) | Autonomy | Flight Testing

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Gadfin

Fixed-Wing Hybrid Drones for Long-Range Medical Package Delivery & Infrastructure Inspections

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Cannon Dynamics

Customizable, Long-Range Fixed-Wing Drones - Twin-Wing Design Heavy Lifting Drones

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ZIYAN Tech

Electric Unmanned Helicopters & Supporting Unmanned Aircraft Equipment

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Alpha Unmanned Systems

Helicopter UAVs: Rotary Wing Drones for Maritime, Naval & Security Operations | UAS GCS

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SwissDrones

Long-Range Autonomous Helicopter Drone for Inspections, Surveillance, Search & Rescue, and Monitoring

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Schiebel Group

VTOL UAS for Civil and Military Applications

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Flexrotor UAS

Group 2 tactical VTOL UAS for land-based or maritime missions

Group 2 tactical VTOL UAS for land-based or maritime missions
...t Group 2 VTOL UAS that is ideal for military and defense applications such as ISTAR, SIGINT and...
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Star-X VTOL-4910HP VTOL UAV

20kg capacity hybrid VTOL UAV for maritime operations

20kg capacity hybrid VTOL UAV for maritime operations
...ation in harsh maritime environments. With long mission endurance times of up to 12 hours, it is...
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Raybird UAS

Small tactical UAS for long-range reconnaissance missions

Small tactical UAS for long-range reconnaissance missions
...aerial system (UAS) for extended reconnaissance missions. With an unmatched 28 hours of continuous... ... comprehensive UAS solution featuring a long-endurance UAV, ground control system, catapult...
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AR5 Fixed-Wing UAS

Long-range fixed-wing UAS for naval & maritime surveillance

Long-range fixed-wing UAS for naval & maritime surveillance
...nce fixed wing UAS optimized for ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), border patrol,... ...EO/IR sensors, maritime radar, SAR (synthetic aperture radar), SIGINT and AIS. It can also be fitted...
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AR3 Long-range VTOL UAV

Long-range maritime surveillance UAV with optional hybrid VTOL capability

Long-range maritime surveillance UAV with optional hybrid VTOL capability
...act fixed-wing UAS designed for long-range vessel-based maritime and land missions. With an...
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Alpha A900 Helicopter UAV

STANAG-compliant for maritime ISR Missions and Border Control

STANAG-compliant for maritime ISR Missions and Border Control
The A900 can be used for many missions, from ISR and border control to infrastructure inspections, c...
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Maritime Drones & UAS

Sarah Simpson

Overview by Sarah Simpson

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Maritime Drones & Naval UAV

Maritime drones and naval UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) have been specially designed to operate at sea and over the ocean. They are engineered to withstand extremes of weather, including heavy rain and winds, and must be resistant to salt spray in addition to regular moisture ingress.

Unmanned helicopters are a popular Maritime UAS (MUAS) platform, as their VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) operation allows them to be easily deployed from a small footprint on the deck of a ship. Fixed-wing maritime UAV can also be launched via catapult launcher, or a runway on larger vessels, and can also launch from land.

Maritime drones

Anavia’s HT-100 Long-range maritime drone

Payloads

Maritime drones may be equipped with a variety of payloads, including EO/IR (electro-optical/infrared) gimbals that allow them to provide surveillance and search for objects on the surface of the water. ViDAR (Visual, or Video, Detection and Ranging) technologies are a form of optical radar that extend the imaging and search capabilities of maritime UAS by allowing them to scan a wide area of ocean with a larger field of view.

Commercial Applications

Naval Drones

SKELDAR V-200 Heavy-fuel, ITAR-free tactical long-endurance VTOL solution

Maritime UAS can be used for a wide variety of both civilian and military applications. Offshore use is becoming more common, as drones are ideal for performing offshore inspection of wind farms and oil rigs, as well as delivering supplies to remote offshore platforms.

Used by first responders in search and rescue operations to locate people and shipwrecks in large areas of open water, maritime UAV are also used for many law enforcement and security applications, such as:

maritime naval uav

Steadicopter’s Black Eagle Electric VTOL UAV for naval, maritime and coastal missions

Naval UAV provide tactical situational awareness and ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) to navy vessels and fleets. They may be able to network with other naval assets such as USV (unmanned surface vessels) and AUV (autonomous underwater vehicles) to provide a multi-domain capability that can share information.

Sarah Simpson

By Sarah Simpson

As Head of Content for Unmanned Systems Technology, Sarah uses her extensive background in research and technical copywriting to spotlight the latest innovations in autonomy, robotics, and sensing. Sarah joined in 2018 and loves to highlight how uncrewed systems are making a tangible difference in the modern world.

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