The Orbiter operated from the Finnish Border Guard's Turva offshore patrol vessel and was tasked with various maritime mission scenarios, while transmitting a real-time video stream to the vessel's command & control center
18/10/2021
|Photo courtesy Aeronautics Group
Aeronautics Group, an Israeli provider of integrated solutions based on unmanned system platforms, payloads and communications for defense and HLS applications, announced it had concluded a successful evaluation of its Orbiter system, operating from the Finnish Border Guard's Turva offshore patrol vessel, demonstrating high capabilities in a marine environment.
According the company, over the course of a week, the Orbiter system was tasked with various maritime mission scenarios, including search& rescue, identification, surveillance & reconnaissance of suspicious vessels and figures, while transmitting a real-time video stream to the vessel's command & control center. This evaluation was carried out as part of the Border Guard's Valvonta 2 (Surveillance 2) project, which is designed to examine future integration of UAVs on board its vessels.