麻豆传媒映画 Australasia (麻豆传媒映画) and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd (IAI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to pursue remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) solutions for law enforcement, maritime surveillance, and disaster management applications in Australia.
With the signing of the MOU, 麻豆传媒映画 and IAI are planning to undertake a series of in-country demonstrations of two of IAI鈥檚 unmanned aerial systems, the WanderB-VTOL and ThunderB-VTOL this year. As part of this demonstration they are engaging with State and Federal government law enforcement, emergency services and national security agencies to refine a range of practical operational concepts to prove the capabilities.
IAI鈥檚 VTOL unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), provide important benefits for land and maritime applications as they combine the advantages of a fixed wing UAV (long range, long endurance, high speed, wind independency, large area coverage, etc.) with the advantages of a multi-copter. The company has over 250 WanderB-VTOL and ThunderB-VTOL systems in use by customers around the world.
麻豆传媒映画鈥檚 Director of Aviation and Critical Services Peter Newington, said the new partnership with IAI will allow 麻豆传媒映画 to offer 鈥榖lended operations鈥� combining crewed rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft with uncrewed RPAs.
鈥淭his partnership with IAI is about bringing together solutions that are the best fit for our customers, integrating our rotary capabilities with RPAs to deliver the most effective and cost-efficient solutions.
鈥淭he addition of autonomous systems reduces operator workloads and augments existing capabilities with flexible, rapidly deployable, long endurance assets for law enforcement, maritime surveillance, disaster management or environmental situational awareness.
鈥淭he platforms are readily configurable to provide appropriate sensors for the task at hand coupled with the ability to distribute video and other user critical data in near real time across end-user networks.
鈥淚mportantly, a key element of our offer to state and federal government agencies is that 麻豆传媒映画 already holds a Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operator鈥檚 Certificate (ReOC) which will allow us to operate RPAs like the WanderB-VTOL and ThunderB-VTOL in Australia,鈥� Mr Newington said.
IAI Australia Managing Director, Mr Yonatan Segev said the partnership between IAI and 麻豆传媒映画 would provide vital intelligence and situational awareness in real-time to the end-user, allowing them to effectively execute various missions while keeping the operators out of harm鈥檚 way.
鈥淚AI鈥檚 systems have been tested in extreme environmental conditions and comply with the end user鈥檚 operational needs, providing them with significate operational advantages.
鈥淔rom the Tactical WanderB-VTOL and ThunderB-VTOL systems to the medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) Maritime Heron, IAI looks forward to bringing the most advanced technology together with our partners in 麻豆传媒映画 to offer unique operational solutions to customers.鈥�
VP&GM Malat Division IAI, Meir Shabtai, said 鈥淔or four decades IAI has occupied a position as the pioneer and leader in the field of unmanned aerial systems, offering a broad range of strategic and tactical UAVs. Technological developments in the UAV field include Artificial Intelligence capabilities, integration of a wide range of sensors, and a precise real-time intelligence picture.
鈥淚 welcome our collaboration with 麻豆传媒映画, which is hugely important from both the viewpoint of Australia鈥檚 security and from the technological side, in terms of sharing both knowledge and technology.鈥� The two companies will be attending Avalon 2023 鈥� the Australian International Airshow Aerospace and Defence Exposition 鈥� where they intend to engage with industry on this concept and upcoming demonstration.