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A serious Swiss drone firm has inked a deal that can create one of many world’s largest international leasing service for UAS.
UMS Skeldar introduced the partnership final week with JetLease, an American multi-national group listed as one of many world’s largest plane leasing corporations. Unveiled on the European protection/safety expo DSEI 2017 in London, the settlement will leverage JetLease’s market presence to lease Skeldar’s VTOL stock. The firm presently affords each rotor UAVs – the V200 and R350 – in addition to fixed-wing plane – the F720 and F330.
Skeldar is a three way partnership between Swedish automaker Saab and UMS Aero. “It made absolute sense for JetLease to provide these products to UMS Skeldar,” JetLease President Russ Dise stated in a press launch. “They also boast a track record as industry gamechangers with their unique heavy fuel engine rotary VTOL — the only one to operate in its category — and we are looking forward to developing our leasing product.”
The settlement will provide “wet and dry leasing” for expeditions over land or sea and can embrace choices for sensor payloads corresponding to Sentient Vision Systems’ ViDAR which boasts 5-10 cameras and an optimum 360-degree maritime area consciousness bundle.
“This NATO-compliant platform, demonstrably the best suited across a range of customer sectors, is our strategic focus,” Skeldar CEO Axel Cavalli-Björkman stated.
“Importantly, this exciting new partnership with JetLease makes our SKELDAR V-200 accessible to a range of customers in the ‘blue light’ sector – police, security and emergency services, Search and Rescue (SAR) – and ‘emerging nations’ military markets. Outsourced contracts and third-party financing including ‘Power by the Hour’ are attractive options placing our technologies within reach of an increasing number of prospective customers.”
Earlier this 12 months, Skeldar signed a cope with Sentient Vision Systems introduced an settlement to supply the ViDAR (Visual Identification Detection and Ranging) system for USM Skeldar’s unmanned techniques through the Paris Airshow.
ViDAR is described by Skeldar as “a wide area autonomous detection system for electro-optic imagery in the maritime domain, enabling coverage over 80 times the ocean’s surface compared with existing electro-optic sensors.”
“ViDAR transforms the utility of tactical UAS’s by giving them a ‘find’ function for the first time. Operators typically must rely on larger, more expensive aircraft to detect objects in the ocean.”
