Overwatch Group, a UK-based end-to-end design and manufacture firm specialising in superior unmanned system and munitions applied sciences, are launching their distinctive drone expertise into the US market at SOF 2024. On the occasion, they’re showcasing their newest improvement to potential prospects privately. events can request a gathering by way of the Overwatch web site.
Overwatch is a defence firm that manufactures a pioneering coaxial drone and related payload expertise. Their payload agnostic, low weight, excessive impact drone weapon methods are man-portable offering safety via precision strike, thereby enabling operators to reply at tempo to ever-evolving tactical necessities within the battlespace.
Since 2022, the corporate has delivered round 800 of their unmanned aerial precision strike methods in assist of the UK’s contribution to international defence and safety. Earlier this 12 months, Overwatch additionally participated within the US-hosted main military warfighting experiment in California; as a part of Challenge Convergence Capstone 4 (PC-C4). The train, with over 600 British Military troops together with hundreds from six different nations, was undertaken to deliver multinational forces collectively to ascertain methods to mix situational consciousness and command and management.
As a part of PC-C4, Overwatch contributed to an built-in reconnaissance and precision strike demonstration at White Sands missile vary. This can assist commanders make the appropriate selections and ship one of the best results to win on future battlefields. Overwatch offered the precision strike functionality via its loitering munitions which had been built-in with greater altitude ISR property and into the broader C2 system.
All Overwatch design and manufacture is undertaken in-house and gives a full turnkey functionality on behalf of the nations it helps. For 2024, Overwatch are focusing closely on bringing its next-generation coaxial drone methods to international markets, and their options are notably related to US army necessities. Producing drones which can be agnostic of payload, Overwatch has additionally been capable of develop an array of energetic and non-energetic payloads that present a variety of CONOPS; from precision strike to operational assist from a standard platform.
“We’re extraordinarily happy with our veteran ethos of ‘designed by troopers for troopers’. Our methods are constructed with the soldier in thoughts, to minimise the coaching burden, and maximise operational flexibility with our method that permits specific-to-task drone and payload configurations. As our R&D of cutting-edge drone and payload applied sciences continues to collect tempo in step with our progress technique, we are actually nicely positioned to increase our precision strike capabilities to wider markets. We’re delighted that US SOF 2024 gives us with this chance and we look ahead to assembly individuals on the occasion”.
Drew Michael, CEO at Overwatch Group