Vanguard
Tactical VTOL for payload delivery
- Endurance
- 30 min
- Payload
- 5 kg
- Class
- VTOL hybrid
Vanguard flies the same job as Titan, 5 kg over a 15 km round trip, but cruises on a wing instead of rotors, which uses far less power. It has 67 TOPS of onboard AI detection, encrypted links, and a mission bay that swaps in under five minutes. It needs only a 4 by 4 metre clearing to take off, with no runway. These figures are planning grade, so real performance will depend on payload and conditions.
Specification
The numbers
Physical
- Type
- VTOL with wing borne cruise
- Deploy footprint
- 4 x 4 m clearing
- IP rating
- IP56
- Operating temp
- −5 to +45 °C
- Wind limit
- 20/25 kt day/night
Performance
- Endurance
- 30+ min
- Cruise
- 22 m/s
- Ceiling
- 2,000 m AMSL
- Hover T/W
- 2.2 at 2,000 m
Payload
- Capacity
- 5 kg
- Sensors
- 2K day, 10x zoom · 640x512 thermal
- LRF
- 1,500 m, ±1 m
- Gimbal
- 3 axis, ±0.01°
Communications
- Control link
- 256 bit AES, 2x2 MIMO 2.4 GHz
- Video
- 25 Mbps encrypted
- Navigation
- Dual GNSS + NavIC + INS
Specifications shown are design targets. Figures may vary once a system is built to your specific requirements.
Capabilities
What it does well
Wing borne efficiency
Cruises on its wing at a fifth of the power it needs to hover
67 TOPS AI lock
Day and thermal detection at 30 frames a second
No runway needed
Takes off vertically from any 4 by 4 metre clearing
Modular mission bay
Swap the drop module for an EW or SIGINT payload
Next step
Talk to us about Vanguard.
Configurations, integration with your equipment, or a variant built to your requirement. Tell us what you need and we will take it from there.