First VTOL UAS With Precision Hit Capabilities
Steadicopter and Smart Shooter will reveal the Golden Eagle at the ISDEF show in Tel Aviv next week. The world’s first VTOL UAS with precision hit capabilities, the aircraft will offer tactical manoeuvre forces with remote terrain dominance and lethal capability with pinpoint accuracy.
Based on the combat-proven Black Eagle 50E platform (click here for the MON report on the aircraft from the Singapore Air Show), the Golden Eagle incorporates AI-based technology and Smart Shooter’s SMASH Dragon system. In combination, they offer superior situational awareness and autonomous multi-target classification and tracking, together with the Dragon’s capability to lock on, track and precisely hit the selected target.
SMASH Dragon integrates a unique stabilization concept with proprietary target acquisition, tracking algorithms and sophisticated computer vision capabilities, allowing for accurate hitting of static and moving targets when mounted on the UAS. It can deploy a variety of assault rifles, sniper rifles and 40mm weapons. Using advanced data processing, the AI system autonomously identifies and distinguishes between different types of targets, whether or not previously present.
“Today’s complex combat environment requires advanced solutions that enable forces to perform missions and neutralise targets remotely, even before entering the area itself […] Using artificial intelligence, the new system provides a field combat solution for the modern battlefield. Forces on the ground can now send a helicopter for autonomous intelligence-gathering into the relevant area and, having identified and classified the targets, send in another helicopter with precise attack capabilities,” explained Noam Lidor, VP Sales, Marketing & Business Development at Steadicopter.
“Using AI, computer vision and advanced algorithms, Smart Shooter’s SMASH technology enhances every mission effectiveness through the ability to accurately engage and hit ground, aerial, and naval, either static or moving targets during both day and night operations. Our SMASH Dragon lightweight robotic weaponry payload can be deployed on different unmanned aerial platforms,” added Dr Abraham Mazor, VP Marketing & Business Development at Smart Shooter.
