Tactical Electronics Aviation will provide a complete R.A.P.T.R. system configured for ISR operations, as well as the necessary crew and support equipment to conduct repeated flight demonstrations necessary to meet the objectives of the exercise.
Facility clearance/authorization from the installation or demonstration site should be obtained, including limitations/restrictions related to range and altitude. The demonstration area must be clear of active airspace/flight corridors. An unpopulated area of one square mile would be ideal and safe for demonstration purposes. However, the exercise could be conducted “line-of-sight” in approximately 400 square meters.
OBJECTIVES
Tactical Electronics Aviation is prepared to conduct live flight demonstrations designed to illustrate the following capabilities and objectives.
Facility clearance/authorization from the installation or demonstration site should be obtained, including limitations/restrictions related to range and altitude. The demonstration area must be clear of active airspace/flight corridors. An unpopulated area of one square mile would be ideal and safe for demonstration purposes. However, the exercise could be conducted “line-of-sight” in approximately 400 square meters.
OBJECTIVES
Tactical Electronics Aviation is prepared to conduct live flight demonstrations designed to illustrate the following capabilities and objectives.
- Rapid deployment: The R.A.P.T.R. will deploy in <5 minutes from a single transport case.
- Ease of use: It can be easily and effectively operated by novice pilots.
- Fully autonomous flight: The vehicle is capable of automated take-offs, execution of gps waypoint-based flight plans, and landings.
- Extreme weather conditions: The vehicle is capable of operating in extreme heat and cold, hard rain, snow and high winds.
- Dual mode control: Control of the R.A.P.T.R. can be passed between the ground station and a hand held transmitter, down-range for mission specific control.
- Video downlink: The vehicle can record on-board and transmit live HD video, and IR images to operators and crew on the ground supplying them with a birds-eye view of an operation or significant intelligence related to activity in and around a target. The Video links are selectable from 1.2 GHz, 1.7 GHz, and 2.4 GHz in either encrypted or unencrypted modes. They are also available in Internet Protocol at 5.8 GHz.
- Electronic tethering: If the ground station becomes mobile, the helicopter can be electronically tethered as a “dog on a leash” and will follow in accordance with pre-programmed parameters.
- Min/max altitudes: Minimum and maximum altitudes can be programmed into the flight plan to establish a window of operation which will allow for the safe integration of other full-size aircraft into the mission.
- Perch and stare: The R.A.P.T.R. is capable of both “hover and stare” or “perch and stare” missions.
- Tracking: The vehicle, when equipped with optional tracking software, can lock and track a moving target in an attitude and position prescribed by the ground station operator “on the fly”.
- Fail-safe: In the event of communication loss with the vehicle, it will automatically enter a fail-safe mode and return to the point of departure, land and terminate power to the rotor systems automatically.
