Skyborne Applied sciences has performed a collection of profitable guided flight assessments of the air-launched Gannet Glide Drone. The Gannet program aligns straight with the targets of the Australian Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) enterprise.
“Skyborne has developed analysis and growth capabilities enabling future Defence partnerships which facilitate Australian innovation. The success of the primary part of the Gannet Glider program displays a maturation of sovereign functionality that Skyborne goals to additional increase,” program supervisor Bryce Hillam stated.
With additional growth, the Gannet Glide Drone will provide a brand new class of low-cost, swarming air-launched results for a swathe of operational eventualities. The system is sufficiently small for dismounted fight use and efficient sufficient in swarms for giant scale mixed arms offensives.
In a world-first, the assessments proved steering, navigation and management techniques for the distinctive wing-sweep-to-roll mechanism. The mechanism affords stowage benefits and mechanical simplicity over conventional aileron preparations for small loitering munitions.
“Skyborne makes use of fully in-house developed working system and autopilot software program, which has many benefits over open-source autopilots resembling ArduPilot and Pixhawk. For instance, the traceability and certification pathways are a lot clearer for an entirely owned, sovereign code-base,” CEO Dr Michael Creagh stated.
The flight testing concludes a 24-month program sponsored by the Trusted Autonomous Techniques Defence Cooperative Analysis Centre and the Australian Military. The Gannet program continues with a major improve path.
