Thales showcased for the first time Spy’Ranger 550 at the Paris Airshow, a new addition to our range of mini Unmanned Air Systems for tactical surveillance and intelligence.
Given the complexity of the digital battlefield and the multiplicity of threats, friendly forces need to leverage the power of digital technology to gain a crucial tactical edge, while staying safe and making a key contribution to wider joint or combined forces operations.
Spy’Ranger is a latest-generation mini-UAS with the only EO/IR imaging system in the world capable of transmitting high-definition electro-optical and infrared imagery in real time.
The system draws on a decade of experience of micro- and mini-UAV systems with the French armed forces and offers particularly high levels of endurance. It is deployed with the Spy’C automatic command-and-control software already adopted by the French land forces.
Designed to operate in extreme, non-permissive environments, this new-generation system gathers and transmits accurate, operational beyond-line-of-sight image intelligence for joint battlegroup and brigade-level units. It is interoperable with France’s multi-sensor image interpretation and dissemination system (MINDS/SAIM) to generate imagery that can be used directly in operational C4I systems for frontline mission planning and multi-sensor manoeuvres by forward units.
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