MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – U.S. navy particular operations specialists wanted small unmanned aerial autos for reconnaissance, surveillance, and goal acquisition. They discovered their resolution from Space-I LLC in Marietta, Ga.
Officers of the U.S. Particular Operations Command at MacDill Air Drive Base, Fla., introduced a $30.5 million contract to Space-I final month for the Agile-Launch Tactically-Built-in Unmanned System (ALTIUS) unmanned plane.
The ALTIUS covert UAV household is available in three variants: the ALTIUS-500 that launches from A-size sonobuoy launch canisters aboard Navy helicopters and fixed-wing plane; the tube- and air-launched ALTIUS-600; and the high-endurance ALTIUS-900 will be launched from navy plane bomb racks.
This contract contains reconnaissance mission payloads, coaching, logistics, engineering, take a look at and measurement, and different providers in help of U.S. Particular Operations Command’s Aviation Integration Directorate Contracting Workplace.
The ALTIUS-500 agile-launched UAV will be delivered as all-up-rounds and accessible on-demand and operational inside minutes. It’s designed to retailer and launch from A-size sonobuoy launch canisters from anti-submarine warfare (ASW) plane and helicopters, and might carry out high-altitude ASW as a result of it will possibly deploy a magnetic anomaly detector to detect the magnetic signature of a submarine.
The ALTIUS-600 is a tube-launched UAV that may be launched from the air, sea, and floor from methods just like the Widespread Launch Tube (CLT), Pneumatically Built-in Launch System (PILS), and different launch methods. It has a sensor or payload bundle, and might launch from C-130A, AC-130J, and P-3 fixed-wing plane; the UH-60 ASW helicopter, civilian plane, and floor autos.
The ALTIUS-900 is much like the ALTIUS-600, however with elevated endurance, subsequent technology energy system, and interfaces with 14-inch, 1,000-pound class bomb racks the place the UAV falls away from its launch plane.
On this contract Space-I’ll do the work in Marietta, Ga., and ought to be completed by July 2027. For extra data contact Space-I LLC on-line at https://areai.com, or U.S. Particular Operations Command at www.socom.mil.
