Multi-Mission UAV Impresses at REPMUS 2024

Schiebel has actually thrilled at the massive NATO sustained workout REPMUS 2024 (Robot Testing and Prototyping utilizing Maritime Uncrewed Equipments) organized by the Portuguese Navy.

For the 3rd year straight, the CAMCOPTER S-100 provided its extraordinary multi goal abilitiesin the maritime domain

Funded by the UK Royal Navy and in collaboration with Thales, the S-100 flew numerous objectives over the 3 weeks of the workout and satisfied with its Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) abilities along with its Anti Submarine War (ASW), Mine Counter Procedures (MCM) and Quick Ecological Analysis (REA) remedies:

Sonobuoy release and information relay (ASW)

Finally year’s REPMUS, the CAMCOPTER S-100 showed its sonobuoy dispenser, effectively releasing 4 G-size sonobuoys from the air to develop a little ASW obstacle. This year, the UAS in addition went down and released the much more qualified A-size sonobuoys along with the 4 G-size sonobuoys.

A 2nd S-100, set up with the Thales BlueTracker interactions haul, after that communicated the sonobuoy signals back to the ground terminal in actual time offering crucial array expansion.

The goal was intended and kept an eye on utilizing the Thales M-Cube Objective Monitoring System, with BlueTracker acoustic handling of the gotten signals and succeeding circulation of undersea targets to the Fight Monitoring System. An end-to end, incorporated capacity for ASW procedures.

Bathymetric and topographic mapping (MCM and REA)

Schiebel fitted the CAMCOPTER S-100 with the VQ-860-G and the VUX-120 LiDARs from the Austrian firm Riegl, allowing the S-100 to check the workout waters for both wandering and tied mines.

The laser scanners offer synchronised bathymetric and topographic mapping under water, on surface area and along shorelines, making the S-100 the excellent possession for finding sea mines (for MCM) along with for sustaining aquatic procedures (for REA).

The goal was intended and kept an eye on utilizing Thales M-Cube Objective Monitoring System, a job order was after that positioned on the mine clearance scuba divers to finish the recognition of the mines discovered by the UAS. An end-to-end, incorporated capacity for MCM and REA procedures.

Hans Georg Schiebel, Chairman of the Schiebel Team, stated, ” Maritime war making use of UAS is coming to be a growing number of front of mind for Navies around the globe. Making use of the most recent modern technology incorporated with a tried and tested unmanned possession offers an end-to-end remedy for ASW that conserves important time and substantially lowers dangers.

” With our 20 plus years of functional experience, particularly in the extreme marine setting flying from ships, and the extraordinary technological requirements of the S-100, it is the excellent UAS to display the most recent unmanned air-borne abilities at REPMUS.”

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