Aerosonde HQ

Aerosonde HQ

Aerosonde HQ

Product catalog summary
Introduction
The Aerosonde HQ Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) is designed for challenging environments, offering day-and-night imaging, communications relay, and signals intelligence. It features a runway-independent configuration with Hybrid Quadrotor technology for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), enhancing mission capability and flexibility.
Features & Benefits
  • Modular customer space for mission-specific payloads.
  • Multi-INT and communications relay payloads in a single flight.
  • Confined launch and recovery without pre-positioned equipment.
  • VTOL capability adds to the system's SWAP advantage.
  • Lycoming EL-005 heavy-fuel engine ensures reliability.
Specifications
  • Endurance: 8 hours with 10 lb of payload.
  • Service Ceiling: 10,000 ft density altitude.
  • Airspeed: 45-65 knots.
  • Transition Altitude: 50-150 ft above ground level.
Performance
The Aerosonde HQ SUAS combines proven multi-mission performance with VTOL flexibility, amassing thousands of flight hours monthly.
Solution Offerings
  • Turnkey fee for service (FFS) operations worldwide, often deployed in less than 90 days.
  • System sales with support.
  • Hybrid operations with concurrent customer training and FFS.
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Catalog excerpts

Aerosonde HQ-1

The Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System is logging thousands of operational hours per month in some of the world’s most challenging environments. With its expanded size, weight and power (SWAP) profile, the system can execute day-and-night imaging, communications relay, signals intelligence and an additional customer-selected payload in a single sortie. Today, Textron Systems has enhanced the system’s flexibility even further with the Aerosonde HQ, a runway-independent configuration that uses Hybrid Quadrotor technology to achieve vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL). Combined with the Aerosonde system’s proven performance and benchmark-setting reliability, the Aerosonde HQ brings unparalleled levels of mission capability and flexibility. Unmanned Systems 124 Industry Lane, Hunt Valley, MD 21030 | 800.655.2616 unmannedsystems@textronsystem

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Aerosonde HQ-2

GET VERTICAL RUNWAY-INDEPENDENT, PROVEN PERFORMANCE The Aerosonde SUAS is amassing thousands of flight hours monthly for customers around the world. That experience continues with the new Aerosonde HQ SUAS, which combines proven multi-mission performance and reliability with the flexibility of VTOL capability. SOLUTION OFFERINGS Textron Systems supports its UAS with skilled operations, on-site training and flexible business models to meet customer needs and deliver capabilities with speed and agility. These include: -Turnkey fee for service (FFS), deployed around the world often in less than...

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