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Insitu Delivers Advanced Unmanned Capability to Middle East
Motivated by the need for increasingly sophisticated technology and increased safety, customers in the MENA region are growing their fleets of unmanned aerial systems. In response to this increasing demand, Insitu, a Boeing Company, renowned for its family of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) introduced its Integrator Extended Range (ER) at UMEX.
Integrator Extended Range (Integrator ER) is a beyond line of sight, SATCOM-enabled small UAS. The 66-kg aircraft leverages tech advances of on-board high-throughput satellite equipment to deliver 10 hours time on station at 200 nm and six hours at 300 nm.
Insitu primarily focused on its Integrator Extended Range (IER) at UMEX. The company also received a contract worth AED 50,257,883 from the UAE Armed Forces.
Briefing Nation Shield on the company’s participation at the show, Mark Bauman, Vice President of Global Growth, Insitu said, “There is a very strong market demand for our platforms within oil and gas markets, specifically here. A couple of years ago, we had a heavy focus on expanding our presence through our commercial offerings. But now we are focused on perimeter security and infrastructure surveillance of oil and gas installations. For those in need of these, we are here with the right kind of solutions utilising both integrator and ScanEagle platforms.”
He said ScanEagle was Insitu’s longest serving platform. “We continue to enhance that platform with new sensors and payload. But our most exciting offer to this region is the Integrator Extended Range (IER) model. This version of our Integrator has over 50,000 hours on the platform, provides the ability to operate beyond line of sight but beyond horizon distances via SATCOM channels. We are really excited about Integrator Extended Range (IER). We have tremendous ability in the region for many of our military customers and also for oil and gas customers, for their pipeline infrastructure surveillance and maintaining security of that as well”.
Increased Safety
In the past, tactical small UAS were restricted to 50-70 nautical miles by their line-of-sight radio frequency limitations. SATCOM equipment was reserved for aircraft weighing upwards of 4,500 kg. Insitu has added satellite-enabled beyond line of sight (SATCOM BLOS) communications to Integrator UAS to deliver extended ranges that reduce logistical challenges and increase safety for fielded personnel.
A flexible and modular option for Integrator, SATCOM communications provides a more secure and robust datalink for transmitting information in austere locations around the globe including maritime environments. Newer high-throughput satellites offer secure, jam-resistant networks than traditional unmanned systems use today. SATCOM BLOS expands operational opportunities by keeping operators and deployed personnel at safer distances from dangerous environments while increasing the overwatch range for those in the fight. SATCOM communications also enable operators to fly a variety of field-swappable payloads over the horizon to deliver high resolution, real-time imagery feeds. Integrator also supports options for AIS, SIGINT and other capabilities.
A flexible and modular option for Integrator, SATCOM communications provides a more secure and robust datalink for transmitting information in austere locations around the globe including maritime environments. Newer high-throughput satellites offer secure, jam-resistant networks than traditional unmanned systems use today. SATCOM BLOS expands operational opportunities by keeping operators and deployed personnel at safer distances from dangerous environments while increasing the overwatch range for those in the fight. SATCOM communications also enable operators to fly a variety of field-swappable payloads over the horizon to deliver high resolution, real-time imagery feeds. Integrator also supports options for AIS, SIGINT and other capabilities.
Extending Integrator’s range reduces the requirements for ground support equipment by consolidating hubs and eliminating the need for spokes, while delivering affordable theater-level ISR on par with current Group 4 or 5 UAS.
Additionally, as small UAS take on bigger roles in theater-level ISR missions, large strike-capable unmanned assets are freed up to conduct kinetic missions. Integrator ER delivers high quality, full motion video on par with current larger ISR systems while at acoustically and visually undetectable altitudes. The low-flying system provides no sanctuary for adversaries who operate under the cover of low-lying clouds.
Most importantly, Integrator ER puts more eyes and ears in dangerous environments around the world, giving individuals on the ground a common operating picture that heightens awareness and brings them home safely.
Key Payloads and Capabilities
“Insitu has been operating in the GCC since 2012 and we’ve been addressing the evolving needs of our customers ever since. We invest a lot of effort in Payloads as our technologies continue to discern between rumour and reality,” said David E Anderson, Defense Capabilities and Payloads at Insitu.
The designs of the UAS are modular allowing different payloads to be installed. The different payloads include:
ViDAR: A Visual Detection and Ranging capability providing daytime scanning, detecting and cueing platform sensors to find elusive objects over vast areas of water. It delivers wide-area maritime search and surveillance at unprecedented Size, Weight and Power (SwAP).
AC14: This provides market-leading image collection capabilities with improvements in ground sample distance and standoff range. In addition to zoom EO and MWIR sensors, the telescope has three sensors: daylight colour image, nighttime thermal imager and short-wave infrared and has broad applications from rescue missions, to individual or vehicle identification.
RedKite: It is a Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) sensor that's housed in the payload bay of the Integrator and designed for border security, disaster response and other missions. It’s capable of monitoring and analysing a city-sized area (up to 4km in diameter), both in real time and from stored mission data. It supports multiple sensor operators with up to 10 video streams at once, each viewing independent streams. It’s geospatial and temporal bookmarking allows operators to mark and share locations.
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