LatestAutumn test campaign complete: 42 flights and 61 flight hours

Missions

The same aircraft, four jobs.

Civil and defence customers fly the same systems. What changes is the search pattern, the sensor settings and who receives the picture.

Fig. 1Coast patrol
Fig. 2Search over terrain
Fig. 3Infrastructure at night

Placeholder footage from Pexels and Mixkit, to be replaced with Adelt sensor recordings.

  1. 1

    Aerial view of a rocky coastline

    Coast guards, border agencies

    Coastal surveillance

    Patrol a stretch of coast or a sea border for ninety minutes at a time. Vessels are detected, correlated with AIS and tracked. Anything without a transponder is flagged for the operator.

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  2. 2

    A small boat on calm water near red houses

    Sea rescue, emergency services

    Search and rescue

    Airborne in under three minutes from a rescue vehicle or a boat. Thermal imaging finds people in water and terrain at night. Positions go straight to the rescue crew’s radio.

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  3. 3

    Aerial view of a container terminal at dusk

    Utilities, ports, security operators

    Critical infrastructure

    Scheduled or alarm-triggered patrols over ports, pipelines, cables and substations. Detections are compared with the previous pass so changes stand out.

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  4. 4

    A fixed-wing aircraft with a payload against an evening sky

    Armed forces, home guard

    Defence ISR

    Organic reconnaissance for a company or a vessel without an airfield. Navigation holds without satellite positioning. The aircraft reports; it does not engage. Defence enquiries are handled under export control.

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