Grupo CPS, a Spanish innovation forge in the south-west of Madrid, has shown the various areas of responsibility in the Armada - from the Admiral's Staff to the Air Flotilla and the Naval Armaments Department - the possibilities of a relatively simple RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System). Originally developed as a private initiative for the fishing industry to spot schools of fish and tuna from the air with minimal resources, the system can also be set up on any helicopter platform with a starter and fishing net. It can also be equipped with a task-specific sensor suite, which is already available in the CPS portfolio.
On-board use
On board the BAM P-46 FUROR (Buque de Acción Marítima, OPV), the company launched its Fulmar Delta from a compressed air catapult, had it fly to a few targets under remote control and then caught it again via the net stretched over the tail.
Mission profile today and tomorrow
In between are up to twelve hours of operation in the ISR profile (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) with in-house produced day and night vision devices, laser measuring devices and other sensors, as well as broadband communication up to 120 kilometres away via a software-defined radio, but then in the yet-to-be-certified Fulmar 25 version. The subsequent Fulmar 30 version will be able to qualify for a significantly extended mission profile with scaffolded satellite communication.
The US Navy has been operating a similar, but somewhat more sophisticated and powerful type for some time now - the Boeing Scaneagle.
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