{"id":8427,"date":"2020-08-04T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=8427"},"modified":"2020-08-04T21:53:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:53:23","slug":"swiss-army-chooses-lockheed-martins-indago-3-uas-for-tactical-reconnaissance-and-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=8427","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Army Chooses Lockheed Martin\u2019s Indago 3 UAS For Tactical Reconnaissance And Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin (LMT) for a fleet of\u00a0Indago 3\u00a0small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indago provides aerial reconnaissance in environments unreachable by normal fixed-wing, unmanned aircraft systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first phase comprises manufacturing development to optimize the Indago 3\u2019s configuration to meet Swiss Army requirements. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Integration of a transponder for sense and avoid;<\/li><li>Installation of the Silvus Technologies\u2019 radio; and<\/li><li>Implementation of Lockheed Martin CDL Systems\u2019\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/en-us\/products\/cdl-systems\/vcsi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VCSi Touch SUAS Ground Control System software<\/a><\/u>\u00a0that includes access to Swiss maps, including digital terrain elevation data (DTED), and Geofencing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The first set of optimized systems will be delivered later this year with the remaining systems to be delivered several months following the first delivery. These Indago 3s will support tactical level reconnaissance and surveillance to support information collection, search and rescue, disaster relief and battle damage assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndago 3 is uniquely qualified to support the Swiss Army\u2019s mission needs,\u201d said Steve Fortson, UAS Portfolio manager at Lockheed Martin. \u201cIndagos operate very quietly from relatively low altitude and provide high fidelity sensor imagery. They are simple to use and require minimal training so soldiers can quickly execute their mission. The Silvus Technologies radios also deliver best-in-class performance and efficiency in a miniature package. They\u2019re ideal for use in portable and embedded applications where size, weight, power and cost are key.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on payloads and operating environment, Indago 3 has a flight time of up to 50 minutes, a range of 10 kilometers, a cruise speed of 25 knots and dash at up to 40 knots. It can also operate at temperatures as low as 30-degrees below zero and as high as 120 degrees Fahrenheit. It\u2019s cyber-secure with high fidelity color and infrared 3-axis stabilized sensors \u2013 and at approximately 5 lbs., Indago can be easily transported by a single backpack and deployed in less than three minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/INDAGO-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/INDAGO-1.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/INDAGO-1-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin (LMT) for a fleet of Indago 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,9316,89,5804,5637,1836,5174,5992,7929,2203,4957,5676,10169,10176,1397,10195],"tags":[1052,464,2911,9314,160,5616,12138,12135,2163,8547,1844,1268,2020,2907,3747,12140,1483,12139,12136,3604,78,5770,1248,966,1100,412,5479,5982,1668,4716,3017,4000,12137,3104,1667,1695,1149,3600,3389,742,7731,1970,3753,1691,5018,1271],"class_list":["post-8427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-air-force-news","category-aviation-news","category-avionics","category-business-news","category-defense-news","category-drone-news","category-economic-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","tag-aerial","tag-aircraft","tag-army","tag-assessment","tag-aviation","tag-battle","tag-cdl-systems","tag-chooses","tag-configuration","tag-damage","tag-defence","tag-defense","tag-development","tag-digital","tag-disaster","tag-elevation","tag-fleet","tag-geofencing","tag-indago-3","tag-integration","tag-lockheed","tag-manager","tag-manufacturing","tag-maps","tag-martin","tag-news","tag-portfolio","tag-radio","tag-reconnaissance","tag-relief","tag-rescue","tag-search","tag-silvus","tag-support","tag-surveillance","tag-swiss","tag-systems","tag-tactical","tag-tech","tag-technologies","tag-terrain","tag-training","tag-transponder","tag-transport","tag-uas","tag-unmanned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8429,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427\/revisions\/8429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}