AFRL Direct to Section II contract will fund the event, construct and flight take a look at of 6 Silent Arrow® CLS-200 plane to hold 500 kilos over 200 nautical miles.
Silent Arrow at present introduced it has been chosen by The Air Pressure Analysis Laboratory (AFRL) for a $1.8M Direct to Section II SBIR contract centered on constructing and flight testing the Silent Arrow CLS-200 (“Contested Logistics System, 200 Nautical Miles”) attritable particular missions Unmanned Plane System (UAS).
The CLS-200 depends on the foundational engineering of the commercially profitable Silent Arrow GD-2000, the world’s first heavy payload, autonomous and attritable cargo supply plane to enter full-rate manufacturing.
The GD-2000 has been deployed in the USA and in a number of abroad international locations from quite a lot of plane together with the C-130H, MC-130J, C-27J and Airbus A400M. Mass manufacturing relies within the UK and led by Silent Arrow manufacturing companion The MEL Group underneath AS9100, with Airbus DS Airborne Options GmbH additionally partnered with Silent Arrow to distribute and assist the GD-2000 heavy cargo supply UAS platform all through European market segments.
Whereas the GD-2000 is an unpowered glider, the brand new CLS-200 can journey six occasions as far by using an progressive propulsion unit and propeller system which might be cheap sufficient to permit all the cargo drone to be single-use. Along with being air droppable, it is going to even be able to taking off from the bottom together with from unimproved surfaces, naval vessels and different launch factors.
“We’d wish to thank the U.S. Air Pressure, AFRL and our Air Pressure Buyer and Finish-Person organizations for increasing Silent Arrow’s warfighter choices by awarding this aggressive Direct to Section II,” mentioned Chip Yates, Silent Arrow’s Founder and CEO. “The flight testing at our Pendleton, Oregon facility might be thrilling as we longline airdrop 5 items from our UH-1H rotorcraft after which ship a 6th unit to the Air Pressure for his or her hands-on analysis.”
About Silent Arrow
The Silent Arrow® product line consists of 5 attritable, autonomous cargo supply plane able to carrying 350 to 2,000 kilos of emergency, catastrophe aid and humanitarian response provides wherever on this planet on brief discover. The Silent Arrow GD-2000, Widebody, SA-PGB, CLS-200 and CLS-300 present a wide selection of contested logistics capabilities to the warfighter. Silent Arrow’s engineering crew has been awarded greater than 22 patents, 6 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) plane world information and a pair of FAI Louis Bleriot medals for disruptive contributions to the aerospace business. In 2021 Silent Arrow® was chosen as a finalist for the Robert J. Collier Trophy because the “Biggest Achievement in Aeronautics or Astronautics in America,” and in 2024 a Silent Arrow flight take a look at plane, N23SA, was accepted into the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Air and House Museum in Washington, DC. For extra data go to www.Silent-Arrow.com.
About AFRL
The Air Pressure Analysis Laboratory is the first scientific analysis and improvement middle for the Division of the Air Pressure. AFRL performs an integral position in main the invention, improvement, and integration of inexpensive warfighting applied sciences for our air, area and our on-line world power. With a workforce of greater than 12,500 throughout 9 know-how areas and 40 different operations throughout the globe, AFRL supplies a various portfolio of science and know-how starting from basic to superior analysis and know-how improvement. For extra data, go to www.afresearchlab.com.
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