{"id":26463,"date":"2023-01-05T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=26463"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:14:26","slug":"spain-from-fishing-for-the-marine-airfox-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/spanien-aus-der-fischerei-fuer-die-marine-airfox-drohne\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain: From fishing for the navy - Airfox drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

The small electronics company \"Marine Instruments\" actually started out in 2004 with data-transmitting buoys for fishing and small boats, but has since catapulted itself to the top of European manufacturers of niche maritime products. The company, which is based in Nigr\u00e1n\/Pontevedra, south-west of Vigo in the northern Spanish region of Galicia, is now part of the Spanish technology cluster Groupo Arbulu. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the beginning was the tunadrone<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to its \"Tunadrone\", which has been used in commercial fishing (tuna) since 2019 and is able to distinguish between fish and seabirds, and its further development into the M5D-Airfox, which is successfully used in Spain's waters for fisheries surveillance and maritime traffic control, it is not only the US Navy that is currently interested in the easy-to-operate solar bird. After this drone was successfully tested in April 2022 during the international, US-led Maritime Exercise 2022 \"Cutlass Express\" in Jordan with around 70 other devices, the Spanish Armada has finally approved the purchase of three units for 1 million euros - customs, fisheries control and Guardia Civil del Mar have been using this drone for their tasks for some time. The Armada wants to use it specifically for mine hunting - of course it also recognises divers and objects under the surface!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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M5D-Airfox at take-off, Cutlass Express 22 in Jordan. Photo: US Navy\/D. Roth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

M5D-Airfox<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The drone measures 2.5 metres in wingspan and one metre in length, its fixed wings are paved with solar cells. It reaches a speed of 55 kmh\/33 knots and can also withstand a moderate breeze (BF 5, i.e. 27 to 35 kmh \/ 16 to 21 knots of wind). Its endurance is up to 10 hours with a range radius of 30 kilometres. Thrown against the wind with a little run-up - caught again with a net that can be stretched. It works!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eigentlich hatte das kleine Elektronik-Unternehmen \u201eMarine Instruments\u201c 2004 mit daten\u00fcbertragenden Bojen f\u00fcr die Fischerei und Kleinboote angefangen, hat sich aber mittlerweile an die Spitze europ\u00e4ischer Hersteller maritimer Nischenprodukte katapultiert. Die in Nigr\u00e1n\/Pontevedra, s\u00fcdwestlich von Vigo im nordspanischen Galicia, angesiedelte Firma ist heute Teil des spanischen Technologie-Clusters Groupo Arbulu. Am Anfang war die Tunadrone Dank seiner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,42,52],"tags":[5017,2342,5016,5014,78,5018,1449,5013,5015],"class_list":["post-26463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-technologie-news","tag-airfox","tag-armada","tag-cutlass-express","tag-fischereiaufsicht","tag-marine","tag-marine-instruments","tag-minenjagd","tag-solardrohne","tag-tunadrone"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49925,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463\/revisions\/49925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}