AUSA 2024: Quantum-Systems targets big 2025 with UAS developments
Quantum-Systems has been upgrading its UAS family, with new versions of the Vector, Reliant and Twister drones set for release throughout 2025.
Aviation motor manufacturer Siemens is currently developing new strategies to produce greater thrust, in partnership with US aviation start-up Heka, as part of the Boeing sponsored Go Fly X competition.
Go Fly is an experimental competition to devise technologies for personal flying devices. Central to Siemens efforts are a series of experiments designed to better understand how thrust improvements can be engineered through the use of digital and computer-based designs, then, in turn, know how fan ducts can be optimised for faster and more efficient flight, compared to rotor blade aerodynamics.
As part of that effort, Siemens has recently completed
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Quantum-Systems has been upgrading its UAS family, with new versions of the Vector, Reliant and Twister drones set for release throughout 2025.
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Funds for the second phase of this effort will be allocated in the US Department of Defense (DoD) FY2026 budget request.