Drones

Stealth Micro UAV for the Army, Police and Special Forces

The pocket-sized and hand launched UAV uses FLIR’s Lepton micro thermal camera, visible spectrum cameras, and proprietary software for flight control, stabilization, and communications. FLIR describes the Black Hornet UAV as one of the lightest, stealthiest, and safest UAVs on the market, and ideal for military forces and special operations forces.

The Black Hornet helicopter can fly for up to 25 minutes at line-of-sight distances of up to one mile at speeds of 18 km/h. It uses GPS navigation or visual navigation via video and can fly pre-planned routes via its autopilot.

The complete UAV system comprises two helicopters, a base station, controller, display unit and pouch weighting a total of 1.3 kg. It comes in day and night versions, distinguished by the grey and black colours. The grey day version has a day camera while the black night version has a small FLIR infrared camera. An encrypted data link sends information back to the operator.