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CaMCOPTeR® s-100 Unmanned air system: an all Weather eye in the sky
The Schiebel Group’s patented and globally tested unmanned air system (UAS) is a cost-effective CAMCOPTER® that can be deployed on land and at sea with its no-frills vertical takeoff and landing under adverse weather conditions and a strategic range of 200 km. Its advanced systems and payload /endurance combination make it a game-changer in any military or civilian operation By eDitorial DeSk
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ounded in 1951 in Vienna, Austria, the globally operating Schiebel Group focuses on the development, testing and production of the revolutionary CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS). Schiebel has built an international reputation for producing high-tech military, commercial and humanitarian products, which are backed by exceptional after-sales service and support.
Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS is a proven capability for military and civilian applications. The Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) UAS needs no prepared area or supporting launch or recovery equipment. It operates day and night, under adverse weather conditions, with a range of up to 200 km, both on land and at sea. The S-100 navigates automatically via pre-programmed GPS waypoints or can be operated directly with a pilot control unit. Missions are planned and controlled via a simple point-and-click graphical user interface. High-definition payload imagery is transmitted to the control station in real time. Using “fly-by-wire” technology controlled by redundant flight computers, the UAV can complete its mission automatically in the most complex of electromagnetic environments. Its carbon fibre and titanium fuselage provides capacity for a wide range of payload /endurance combinations.
MILItary MarItIMe aPPLICatIons
The S-100 is a significant force multiplier for maritime commanders, extending the reach of the ship beyond the horizon. It greatly improves the decision makers’ situational understanding and operational responsiveness.
Multi-Sensor Surveillance: The S-100 is the only UAS in its class that is able to carry multiple sensors simultaneously. The CAMCOPTER® with such multisensor capability can extend the surveillance horizon of naval commanders and decision makers and in so doing enhance their situational awareness dramatically. The data provided by the ESM and radar sensors give a broad-area maritime capability that, when combined with electro-optical sensors, is crucial to understanding the dynamic challenges of the maritime environment.
All-Oceans Solution: The S-100 unmanned helicopter has successfully completed extensive ship-borne trials and is deployed with various navies worldwide. The S-100 has successfully proven its maritime surveillance capability on over 40 classes of ships in all the world’s oceans. Thousands of flight hours and thousands of takeoffs and landings prove that the S-100 meets the long-term goals of many navies. Since 2006, there has been a successful development of a fully automated shipboard landing system. The S-100 can take off and land at wind speeds of up to 25 knots over deck. However, successful
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flight-testing has been conducted at wind speeds of 40 knots and sea states greater than 3.
Long-Range Reconnaissance: The unique CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS delivers long-range real-time reconnaissance up to 200 km, satisfying a wide range of user requirements. Schiebel’s groundcontrol user interface offers fieldproven mission planning and execution capabilities. It provides easy access and allows swift integration with higher levels of command and control systems, including payload data distribution and processing.
More Military Maritime Applications: With increasing levels of threat and larger numbers of vessels occupying our seas, the demand to understand and predict ship movements and actions is becoming an even more complex task. Capable of carrying out operations from a single ship or as part of a task force, the CAMCOPTER® is a true force multiplier. Working as part of collaborative future maritime patrols, the combination of manned, unmanned and satellite-based reconnaissance systems will help to ensure safer movement of traffic across the world’s oceans, deter aggression, better detect piracy, secure coastlines and protect infrastructure such as pipelines and energy platforms.
MILItary Land-based aPPLICatIons
The multi-capable S-100 enhances your military capability and delivers an intelligent and flexible solution for a wide range of missions.
Flexible Land-Based ISR Missions: Focused, timely ISR is an essential component of today’s military operations. With the advent of modern UAS, a whole new range of ISR products are available and can be made available at all operational levels. For maximum efficiency, data must be collected, analysed and exploited effectively giving decision makers sufficient time to initiate effective actions and responses. The CAMCOPTER® S-100, coupled with highly flexible secure networking capabilities, provides a step-change across all levels of command. This capability, paired with its small footprint and ability to operate from austere sites, makes the S-100 the ultimate ISR asset for a wide range of military and security operations.
Land-Based Multi-Sensor Surveillance: Military forces today are faced with complex, often asymmetric challenges: They must be able to use cues and intelligence collected from increasingly wider parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, over broad, complex operational terrains against a background of shrinking budgets and scarce resources. With the CAMCOPTER® S-100, customers can benefit from a high-persistence, cost-effective multi-sensor platform that enhances situational awareness at operationally significant ranges.
Mission Support Equipped with an EO/IR camera, loudspeakers and a leaflet-dropping container, the CAMCOPTER® S-100 extends the decision makers’ capability into a wide range of peace-support and stabilisation operations.
More Military Land-Based Applications: Where the CAMCOPTER® S-100 truly excels is the support it offers commanders and decision makers operating in the highly complex littoral environment, with the drone’s ability to deploy and operate from both land and maritime sites interchangeably, as well as to be rapidly reconfigured in support of different operational needs and levels of command. Its flexible logistics requirements, limited demand for resources and ability to operate from the most sChieBeL’s CaMCOPTeR® s-100 Uas is a PROven CaPaBiLiTY FOR MiLiTaRY and CiviLian aPPLiCaTiOns. The veRTiCaL TakeOFF and LandinG (vTOL) Uas needs nO PRePaRed aRea OR sUPPORTinG LaUnCh OR ReCOveRY eQUiPMenT
austere sites allows the S-100 to remain close to the centre of effort, irrespective of whether it is on land or at sea.
CIvIL Land-based aPPLICatIons
Whether enhancing the creativity of a movie maker or monitoring power lines, the S-100’s intuitive and accessible technology makes it the perfect choice for a diverse range of users. More Civil Land-Based Applications: The S-100 provides an ideal platform from which to collect and measure atmospheric samples, whether they are Chemical, Biological or Radiological (CBR). The S-100’s ability to hover and move slowly with high navigational accuracy enables the accurate 3-dimensional mapping of CBR clouds. When equipped with LIDAR and colour video sensors, the drone can accurately perform 3-dimensional mapping to provide valuable information for geographers, resource extraction companies, infrastructure planners and inspectors as well as disaster response organisations.
CIvIL MarItIMe aPPLICatIons
The CAMCOPTER® S-100 is able to provide unique degrees of flexibility, versatility and persistence, all of which are keys to successful operation in maritime environments.
Anti-Smuggling Operations: The demand for ever more robust border control continues to grow, especially in more difficult, austere, geographically complex environments where conventional approaches are not always effective. The CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS has been proven to deliver real-time information for decision makers and border patrol personnel, making this an indispensable tool in the global battle against contraband, drug, human or arms trafficking and in the fight against organized crime.
Search and Rescue: The provision of timely surveillance over broad areas are two critical components of successful search and rescue operations. Supported by a CAMCOPTER® S-100, NGOs, disaster-relief personnel and first responders get a compelling aerial perspective that enables them to more effectively and efficiently deploy and coordinate resources immediately. The unmanned helicopter with its small logistics footprint allows its deployment from austere operation sites, closer to where the need is and where operation of manned assets would be considerably more difficult to deploy. Day and night operation using real-time, full-motion video from both high-definition colour-video and infrared cameras makes the S-100 an effective tool for search and rescue operations.
Coastal Patrol: Diminishing budgets and resources are moving ship design away from the large capital ships of the past to smaller more cost-effective solutions where operation of conventional manned helicopters becomes considerably more difficult. Deploying a tactical rotary UAS such as the CAMCOPTER® S-100 can cost-effectively replace the lost ISR capability. Given its minimal footprint, the S-100 is able to operate even from smallsized ship decks.
More Civil Maritime Applications: The maritime environment, more than any other, requires timely situational awareness and communications. Schiebel is meeting today’s challenge with its CAMCOPTER® S-100, proven in all operational areas, including littoral, riverine and inland as well as the open sea.
Small vessels, especially, require UAS that place the smallest demands possible on resources and logistics support. Working with its world-class partners, Schiebel has reviewed existing manned-helicopter maritime practices and used this information to develop a unique maritime capability.
