Textron Aerosonde®

The Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System is logging thousands of operational hours per month in some of the world’s most challenging environments. With its expanded size, weight and power (SWAP)profile, the system can execute day-and-night imaging, communications relay, signals intelligence and an additional customer-selected payload in a single sortie. Today, Textron Systems has enhanced the system’s flexibility even further with the Aerosonde HQ, a runway-independent configuration that uses HybridQuadrotor technology to achieve vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL). Combined with the Aerosonde system’s proven performance and benchmark-setting reliability, the Aerosonde HQ brings unparalleled levels of mission capability and flexibility.

Features & Benefits

Confined launch and recovery without prepositioned launch and recovery equipment

Multi-INT (EW and communications relay) payloads in a single flight

Unpacked and airborne in less than 20 minutes with a crew of four

Additional modular volume available for customer-specific payloads

Proven Lycoming EL-005 heavy-fuel engine

Single 463L pallet expeditionary system

TASE400 payload capable

Solution Offerings

Textron Systems supports its UAS with skilled operations, on-site training and flexible business models to meet customer needs and deliver capabilities with speed and agility.

These include:

Turnkey fee for service (FFS), deployed around the world often in less than 90 days
System sales with support
Hybrid operations, with customer training concurrent with FFS

These options get capabilities to the customer with speed and agility.

Runway-Independent, Proven Performance

The Aerosonde SUAS is amassing thousands of flight hours monthly for customers around the world. That experience continues with the new Aerosonde HQ SUAS, which combines proven multi-mission performance and reliability with the flexibility of VTOL capability.