This month, Stay Informed looks at three of QinetiQ's unmanned vehicles for air, sea and land - the Zephyr UAV, which has just broken the world record for the longest duration unmanned flight, the Sentry surveillance craft and SWORDS, the armed version of the robot family Talon®.
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| Zephyr UAV exceeds official world record for longest unmanned flight |
QinetiQ's Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) has exceeded the official world record time for the longest duration unmanned flight with a 54-hour flight achieved during trials at the US Military's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The flight trials were funded through the Ministry of Defence (MOD) research programme.
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| QinetiQ unveils Sentry - unmanned reconnaissance and surveillance craft |
Sentry, a fast unmanned reconnaissance and surveillance craft developed by QinetiQ for the defence market, brings together military design requirements with a compact water-jet-propelled platform. Sentry is designed to deal with a variety of mission roles including remote unmanned harbour patrol and security, battlefield reconnaissance and damage assessment along with intruder investigation.
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| QinetiQ fits Talon® robots with weapons for demo of SWORDS |
The Talon® family of versatile robots, produced by Foster-Miller, a wholly owned subsidiary of QinetiQ North America, can be remotely operated from up to a kilometre away. The armed SWORDS variant, which was unveiled at the DSEi exhibition in September, is configured with either an M240 or M249 machine gun or a Barrett .50 calibre rifle for armed reconnaissance missions.
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