AFRL Direct to Section II contract will fund the event, construct and flight check of 6 Silent Arrow® CLS-200 plane to hold 500 kilos over 200 nautical miles.
Silent Arrow at this time introduced it has been chosen by The Air Power Analysis Laboratory (AFRL) for a $1.8M Direct to Section II SBIR contract centered on constructing and flight testing the Silent Arrow CLS-200 (“Contested Logistics System, 200 Nautical Miles”) attritable particular missions Unmanned Plane System (UAS).
The CLS-200 depends on the foundational engineering of the commercially profitable Silent Arrow GD-2000, the world’s first heavy payload, autonomous and attritable cargo supply plane to enter full-rate manufacturing.
The GD-2000 has been deployed in the USA and in a number of abroad nations from quite a lot of plane together with the C-130H, MC-130J, C-27J and Airbus A400M. Mass manufacturing relies within the UK and led by Silent Arrow manufacturing accomplice The MEL Group underneath AS9100, with Airbus DS Airborne Options GmbH additionally partnered with Silent Arrow to distribute and help the GD-2000 heavy cargo supply UAS platform all through European market segments.
Whereas the GD-2000 is an unpowered glider, the brand new CLS-200 can journey six occasions as far by using an revolutionary propulsion unit and propeller system which are cheap sufficient to permit the complete cargo drone to be single-use. Along with being air droppable, it can even be able to taking off from the bottom together with from unimproved surfaces, naval vessels and different launch factors.
“We’d prefer to thank the U.S. Air Power, AFRL and our Air Power Buyer and Finish-Person organizations for increasing Silent Arrow’s warfighter choices by awarding this aggressive Direct to Section II,” mentioned Chip Yates, Silent Arrow’s Founder and CEO. “The flight testing at our Pendleton, Oregon facility will probably be thrilling as we longline airdrop 5 models from our UH-1H rotorcraft after which ship a 6th unit to the Air Power for his or her hands-on analysis.”
About Silent Arrow
The Silent Arrow® product line consists of 5 attritable, autonomous cargo supply plane able to carrying 350 to 2,000 kilos of emergency, catastrophe aid and humanitarian response provides anyplace on this planet on quick discover. The Silent Arrow GD-2000, Widebody, SA-PGB, CLS-200 and CLS-300 present a wide selection of contested logistics capabilities to the warfighter. Silent Arrow’s engineering crew has been awarded greater than 22 patents, 6 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) plane world information and a couple of FAI Louis Bleriot medals for disruptive contributions to the aerospace trade. In 2021 Silent Arrow® was chosen as a finalist for the Robert J. Collier Trophy because the “Best Achievement in Aeronautics or Astronautics in America,” and in 2024 a Silent Arrow flight check plane, N23SA, was accepted into the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Air and Area Museum in Washington, DC. For extra info go to www.Silent-Arrow.com.
About AFRL
The Air Power Analysis Laboratory is the first scientific analysis and growth middle for the Division of the Air Power. AFRL performs an integral function in main the invention, growth, and integration of inexpensive warfighting applied sciences for our air, house and our on-line world pressure. With a workforce of greater than 12,500 throughout 9 expertise areas and 40 different operations throughout the globe, AFRL offers a various portfolio of science and expertise starting from elementary to superior analysis and expertise growth. For extra info, go to www.afresearchlab.com.
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