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AGUSTAWESTLAND ROTARY WING RPAS

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Agusta Westland Rotary Wing RPAS

¾ Current status:

¾ SD-150 ‘HERO’: 150 kg MTOW land/maritime variants

¾ SW-4 ‘SOLO’: 1,800 Kg MTOW land/maritime variants

¾ Future developments:

¾ AgustaWestland’s long-term startegy foresees in future the adaptation and installation of the innovative RUAV

technologies, which are currently developed and tested on the HERO and SOLO platforms, in other

AgustaWestland manned helicopter platforms of higher weight class


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Rotary Wing RPAS SD-150 ‘HERO’


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Rotary Wing RPAS SD-150 ‘HERO’ – Main Features

¾ SD-150 HERO, incorporates the AgustaWestland experience in

the helicopter design and production.

¾ HERO design criteria reflects the state of the art of the

international regulations and comply with both civil and military

requirements

¾ Main Design Characteristics:

¾ Robust landing gear to allow landing on all surfaces, land

and naval.

¾ Articulated rotor designed to comply with the required

efficiency, noise and vibrations.

¾ Rotor folding system.

¾ High flight performances

¾ Exceptional useful load

¾ High reliability and low maintenance costs

¾ SD-150 HERO: Light Class Short Range Tactical RPAS

¾ 2 strokes engine 50 hp (TOP) – average consumption 7 kg/h

¾ High reliability electromechanical actuators

¾ FCC triplex redundancy

¾ Benzine/Heavy Fuel capability


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Rotary Wing RPAS SD-150 ‘HERO’ – Technical Data

Performances: ¾ Max. TOW 150 kg

¾ Max. Range: 540 km

¾ Max. Useful (fuel+payload) Load: 50 kg

¾ Max. Endurance: 5 hrs

Dimensions: ¾ Main Rotor Diameter : 3500 mm

¾ Length: 3300 mm

¾ Height: 1180 mm

¾ Width: 1030 mm


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Rotary Wing RPAS SD-150 ‘HERO’ – Equipment

EO/IR Turret

AIS

Camera

LIDAR Comms Relay RADAR


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Rotary Wing RPAS SW-4 ‘Solo’


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Rotary Wing RPAS SW-4 ‘Solo’ – Main Features

¾ Based on SW-4 EASA certified helicopter 1,800 Kg MTOW ¾ Single Turbine Rolls Royce 250 C20, 450 shp

¾ Dual Use Mission Payload ¾ Maritime/Terrestrial variants ¾ Shipboard operational capability

¾ Redundant actuation system

¾ Remote Engine Start-up/Shutdown capability

¾ Auto Takeoff / Landing capability

¾ Integrated FMS/FCS (Triplex architecture)

¾ C2 (Command & Control) Data Link (DL) with backup

¾ C2 Ground Control Station (STANAG 4586)

¾ Data link redundancy & lost link management


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Basic Performances: ¾ Max. TOW: 1800 kg

¾ Max. Payload: 470 kg

¾ Max. Range: 940 km

¾ Max. Endurance: 5 hrs

Main Dimension: ¾ Main Rotor Diameter: 9000

mm

¾ Length: 9068 mm

¾ Height: 3139 mm

¾ Width: 2280 mm

Rotary Wing RPAS SW-4 ‘Solo’ – Technical Data


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¾ Mission Ground Control Station for payload management, mission data analysis and dissemination

¾ Mission Data Links for C2 and Mission Payload Management

¾ VISTA Camera – wide angle HD daylight cameras providing ground crew situation awareness

¾ FLIR - Integrated with Vista Cam for points of interest identification, monitoring and tracking

¾ Radar

¾ Harpoon /Mooring System/Precision Approach Sensors for Naval variant

¾ Mission Recording and Playback Capability

¾ Open architecture (network centric) to allow easy integration of new/role fit mission equipment

Rotary Wing RPAS SW-4 ‘Solo’ – Equipment


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AW Rotary Wing RPAS Common Ground Control Station

¾ Includes Pilot and Mission Operator Positions

¾ Allows the control of multiple SW-4/HERO combined and/or independent missions (STANAG 4586)

¾ Allows the control of all the flight phases

¾ Provide vehicle information (state vector, sensors data, engine data)

¾ Operator can exercise AP- Modes similar to traditional upper autopilot modes:

¾ at any time the operator can engage the Autopilot Mode

¾ in this condition the H/C is controlled remotely by the pilot who selects references associated to the engaged

autopilot modes (e.g. airspeed, heading, altitude commands)

¾ Operator can manage flight plans, auto-takeoff, auto-land

¾ Engine start-shutdown procedure

¾ Provide built in test information

¾ Allow the management of emergency procedures (GPS loss, lost link)


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RWUAS Capability Concept Demonstration (CCD)


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SW-4 SOLO DEMONSTRATOR PROGRAMMES European Defence Agency Exercise “Italian Blade”

¾ RUAS/OPH teaming with manned helicopters demonstrated

by AW and Italian Army Aviation

¾ European Defence Agency sponsored Exercise “Italian Blade”

multi-national helicopter exercise at Viterbo, Italy in June

2015 provided realistic, but controlled, operational

environment for demonstration

¾ SW-4 Solo and Italian Army AW-129D, UH-90 and CH-47C

helicopters operated as Tactical Communication Nodes

exchanging digital information to support rotary wing Close Air

Support (CAS) and Close Combat Attack (CCA) operations

¾ Remotely operated SW-4 Solo with safety pilot on board able

to operate in close proximity of manned helicopters


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* Safe Strike Warrior is a tactical software application for tablets and smart phones used by Italian Army Aviation to provide increased situational awareness for CCA / CAS

Safe Strike Warrior T-PED

¾ AW-129D, UH-90 and CH-47C equipped with:

¾ Selex-ES Software Defined Radio (SDR) and ROVER4 data

link interfaced (via WiFi) with

¾ SafeStrike Warrior* T-PED (iPad); providing in-flight

battlefield visualisation and FMV

¾ SW-4 Solo equipped with EO/IR (GS410), and AESA radar with

GMTI (PicoSAR) to provide:

¾ Selex-ES Software Defined Radio (SDR) and ROVER4 data

link interfaced (via WiFi) with

¾ SafeStrike Warrior* T-PED (iPad); providing in-flight

battlefield visualisation and FMV


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¾ Successfully demonstrated SW-4 Solo capability to:

¾ capture ISTAR data and Full Motion Video

¾ relay of data to manned helicopters using ROVER4

¾ relay of data to Safe Strike Units

¾ provide target data including target position, still pictures

and Full Motion Video during representative CCA/CAS

Missions

¾ Successfully demonstrated data transfer from Safe Strike

Warrior to SW-4 Solo GCS enabling:

¾ target engagement and/or

¾ re-tasking / re-positioning of SW-4 Solo via GCS


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SW-4 SOLO DEMONSTRATOR PROGRAMMES Royal Navy Rotary Wing UAS (RUAS) Capability Concept Demonstrator

¾ RWUAS CCD informed UKMoD / Royal Navy of suitability of

Tactical Maritime UAS (TMUAS) for wide range of maritime

missions

¾ TMUAS will operate with AW159, AW101, Unmanned Surface

Vessels (USV) and Unmanned Underwater Vessels (UUV)

¾ CCD delivered:

¾ Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis

¾ High Level System Definition for TMUAS

¾ Physical demonstration of RUAS launch and recovery

using SW-4 “Solo”

¾ Demonstration of RWUAS payload data feed into ship

Combat Management System

¾ RUAS Technology Roadmaps


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SW-4 SOLO DEMONSTRATOR PROGRAMMES Successful RWUAS CCD Trials for Royal Navy – May 2015

Mission Scenarios Demonstrated • Littoral Reconnaissance (3), • Counter Piracy (2), • Counter Smuggling (2), • Counter FIAC (1)

Flight Operations ¾ No of Flights: 26

¾ Simulated ship auto launch/recovery: 22

¾ Flight Hours: 27:0


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SW-4 SOLO DEMONSTRATOR PROGRAMMES Automatic take-off/landing simulating shipboard operations


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