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Penguin C Long Endurance,
Long Range Small Tactical UAVRolands Ozoliņš, Business Development DirectorSeptember 21, 2016
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UAV Factory: Key facts
• In business since 2009
• 60+ people
• Large R&D part of business
• Vertically integrated manufacturing
• Leading position in fixed wing small Unmanned
Aircraft System market
• Located in Latvia
UAVF is focussed on perfecting a single type of airframe
• Over 160 delivered
• Customers in 43 countries
• World flight endurance record of 54,4 hours since
2012
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Penguin C is ready-to-fly Long
Endurance, Long Range
Unmanned Aerial System
Penguin B is most widely used
commercial airframe for system
integrators
Airbus Space and Defence, DLR,
Insitu Pacific, Wright Patterson
AFB, Naval Research Laboratory
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US military UAS classification
Penguin C is small tactical /
Group 2 UAS
Boeing / Insitu’s ScanEagle is the
most widely used aircraft of the
class
Source: http://www.ndia.org/divisions/divisions/solic/documents/weatherington_slides_3-1-11.pdf
Penguin C
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Civilian classification: small UAS up top 25kgs MTOW
Small UAS class has less regulatory
requirements to fly
Penguin C provides highest
performance in its class
Source: http://www.droneii.com/drone-performance-cluster
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Small tactical UAS: Penguin C vs. ScanEagle
Penguin C performance is on par
with ScanEagle
Penguin C was designed with commercial viability in mind
Source: https://www.mindef.gov.sg/navy/careers/our-assets/scaneagle-uav.html, https://insitu.com/defense
Penguin C ScanEagle
MTOW 22,5 kg 22 kg
Max Payload weight 3,5 kg 3,4 kg
Wingspan 3,3m 3,11m
Flight endurance 20+ hours 24+ hours
Range 100km 100km
Design objectives Commercial feasibility Military
Penguin C has lower cost, less
equipment and personnel
requirements
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Key system design decisions
Source: http://www.droneii.com/drone-performance-cluster
Reliability
Minimizing loss
Maximizing UAV flight hours
Low cost of operations
Best in class payloads
Reliability
Considerations
• System must be tightly integrated
• We must have our own fuel injected engine
• We must routinely fly ourselves
As a result
• We own and manufacture every key component except
autopilot
• We have developed our own EFI engine
• We are truly single source system provider
• We fly 2 UAVs every day up to 16 hours
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Equipment loss must be minimised
Considerations:
• Customers may bunkrupt if they crash their expensive
equipment
• UAVF would loose a customer forever
As a result:
• We have developed sophisticated parachute / airbag
landing system and payload retract mechanism
• Even catastrophic failure means elegant parachute landing
• Less equiment needed for landing
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Maximizing flight hours
Considerations:
• Customers must be able to operate day-in day-out
• Minimum down-time due to maintenance
• Minimum skills to maintain
As a result:
• Modular structure
• Field replaceable almost everything
• 10 minutes and 4 screws to change engine compartment
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Reasonable cost of operations
Considerations:
• Operations must cost significantly below cost of manned
aircraft
• Minimum personnel and equipment required
• All components must be man portable and must fit in
average commercial van
• Operation complexity must permit average person to be
trained within 3 weeks
• Airfield independence
• Easy to provide international assignments
As a result:
• Penguin C is the most mobile system in its class
• 2 persons required to assemble, check, operate and
maintain the system
• ITAR free products allow for easy deployment outside
country
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What best in class mobility really means?
This is not mobility
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What best in class mobility really means?
This is mobility
We must provide best in class payloads and installing
third party payloads must be easy
Considerations:
• UAV value is in the information they provide
• Day / nighttime visual information is the most widely used
information
• We must provide best in class payloads
• Can we develop world class or better payloads with
advanced imaging functionality?
As a result:
• Yes, we can!
• Octopus ISR System division developing payloads
• Penguin UAVs designed for simple third party payload
integration
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What to expect from modern EO payloads on small UAS?
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Possibility to have situational awareness of a
very large area
Must have capabilities:
• All digital system
• Fully stabilized image• Narrow field of view 2° or less
• Software based image processing
• Image stabilization
• Automated target tracking
• Moving Target Indicator
Limitations:
• Weight
• Size
• Class of UAV
Why partner with UAV Factory?
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• Access to world class small tactical UAV capability at reasonable cost
• Regional partner located couple of hours away
• Every military customer is significant• Focus on supporting local and
independent UAV capabilities
Next step:Visit to our manufacturing facility and flying range for capability briefing
UAV Factory Ltd., Europe7 Peldu Street, Jelgava, Latvia, LV-3002
[email protected], [email protected]
+371 29191590+371 20262126
General enquiries:Sales:
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/01/19/more-u-s-military-drones-are-crashing-than-ever-as-new-problems-emerge/