Mon, Feb 14, 2011
Working In Concert, Different Systems Feed Same Ground Control
Station
A series of joint flight missions of the Hermes 450 and Hermes
900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) has been successfully carried
out by Elbit Systems, the company announced Tuesday. The two
different UAS were controlled and operated from the same universal
ground control station (UGCS), transmitting the gathered imagery,
ELINT and COMINT to their station operators, while using different
communications systems.
Hermes 450, 900 Photo Courtesy Elbit Systems
Joint flight control and management of two different UAS
provides users with enhanced operational flexibility, adapting each
specific UAS to a specific mission and furthermore enabling
management of highly complex missions in diverse arenas. Conducting
joint flight operation from a common UGCS is also highly cost
effective as the two distinct UAS rely on shared software
architecture and training programs, thus reducing additional costs.
Capable of simultaneously controlling two parallel UAS missions,
each mission managed by a single operator, the UGCS enables
advanced mission performance, automatic taxiing, autonomous flight
and automatic takeoff and landing systems common to all the UAS in
the Hermes family.
Building on the vast operational experience of the Hermes 450, the
backbone of the Israel Defense Air Forces with over 200,000
operational fight hours in its track record, the Hermes 900 offers
additional capabilities such as higher flight altitude (over 30,000
ft), longer endurance and larger payload capacity of up to 770
pounds, thus allowing the execution of more diverse and complex
missions using the two distinct UAS.
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