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.
An innovative fire-fighting solution – a UAS that fires a fire-extinguishing round through the glass curtain walls of skyscrapers – was on show at the Milipol Asia 2019 exhibition in Singapore.
Designed by China Tech Hi Industry Import and Export Corporation (CTHC), a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the firm showed an example of its quadrotor UAS equipped with two 1m-long launchers able to fire dry-powder rounds.
An optional four-tube launcher UAS is also available, with this UAS being larger.
Liu Bing, deputy general manager of CTHC, explained that the UAS would fly to the
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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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