Silent Arrow introduced theUnited States Air Power, by means of the Air Power Analysis Laboratory (AFRL), has awarded the corporate a contract entitled “Guided Bundle Spinoff of Silent Arrow® for Facet Door and Palletized Swarm Deployment at Excessive Speeds and Altitudes” efficient November 12, 2021. The SA-PGB will likely be designed and constructed at Silent Arrow’s headquarters in Irvine, California and 15 plane will likely be shipped to the corporate’s flight take a look at heart in Pendleton, Oregon for operational evaluations on the Pendleton UAS Check Vary. Preliminary specs embrace 500-pound max weight, 350-pound cargo capability, 39 inches lengthy and deployable from excessive altitudes and airspeeds.
Beneath this Small Enterprise Innovation Analysis (“SBIR”) Section II contract, the commercially profitable Silent Arrow® GD-2000 (Glider, Disposable, 2000 kilos) platform will likely be scaled down and redesigned as a brand new product line known as the Silent Arrow® Precision Guided Bundle (SA-PGB), which is able to initially be developed as an autonomous cargo supply glider. The SA-PGB is particularly designed for aspect door and multi-unit (swarm) ramp deployment, suitable with a much-expanded fleet of supply plane starting from the civilian Cessna Caravan to the army C-17.
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Silent Arrow’s tightly built-in packaging with its patented spring-deployed wing system, industry-leading payload capability, 40-mile standoff distance and low unit value, has acquired enthusiastic reception from U.S. and international prospects and is at present being delivered and operated to instantly serve heavy-payload, autonomous cargo resupply wants all through the world.
“We’d wish to thank the U.S. Particular Operations neighborhood, the U.S. Air Power, Navy, Military and varied different organizations who signed on to assist this award for a brand new life-saving cargo supply drone,” stated Chip Yates, Silent Arrow’s founder and CEO. “We sit up for an thrilling flight take a look at program in 2022 and shortly getting this new functionality into the palms of the warfighter and catastrophe reduction organizations alike.”
Silent Arrow® is a DBA of Yates Electrospace Company, based in 2012 by electrical aviation pioneer Chip Yates, to provide the Silent Arrow® and AVIUS Air Supply™ autonomous cargo drone product strains, which have been highlighted as an “Unmanned Cargo Plane to Watch” by Aviation Week & House Expertise journal. Silent Arrow’s engineering group has been awarded greater than 20 patents, 6 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) plane world data and a pair of FAI Louis Bleriot medals for disruptive contributions to the aviation {industry}. In 2021 Silent Arrow® was chosen as a finalist for the Robert J. Collier Trophy because the “Best Achievement in Aeronautics or Astronautics in America.
