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Israeli company Steadicopter unveils its new Golden Eagle Autonomous Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (RUAV), a system first showcased at this year’s Defence Exhibition Athens (DEFEA 2023).
According to Steadicopter, Golden Eagle, designed for defence, homeland security and civil applications, can provide tactical manoeuvring forces with precise aerial strike capabilities.
Based on the company’s combat-proven Black Eagle 50E platform, Golden Eagle uses advanced AI-based technology and a remotely operated smart robotic weaponry payload.
The technology in question enables superior situational awareness and autonomous multi-target classification and tracking, while the payload locks on the target, tracks it and ensures a precise hit on the target.
This Golden Eagle integrates Smartshooter’s SMASH Dragon system, a fire control system with target acquisition capabilities, tracking algorithms and computer vision capabilities, that allows accurate hitting of static and moving targets.
The system can employ various types of assault rifles, sniper rifles, 40 mm and other munitions with great precision.
Also read: DEFEA 2023 | SMARTSHOOTER presents the advanced SMASH 3000 fire control system – VIDEO and Photos
Golden Eagle’s technical characteristics:
- Length: 3100 mm
- Main rotor diameter: 2800 mm
- Maximum weight: 50 kg
- Payload capacity: 7 kg
- Endurance: 1 hr (Hover)
- Data link range: up to 150 km
- Maximum speed: 126 km/h
- Cruising speed: 85 km/h
- Operating temperature: -20 to +50 °C
- Wind resistance: 45 km/h
- Service ceiling: 18,000 ft
Lightweight, cost-effective, simple to operate and easy to maintain, with long mission endurance, Golden Eagle’s Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) capabilities allow for successful mission completion.
Also read: SMARTSHOOTER | Unmanned small arms solutions for land and air at EUROSATORY 2022
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