French drone producer Parrot introduced that it’ll provide 300 ANAFI Unmanned Aerial Methods for the French Military below a five-year contract.
As famous by the corporate, Parrot was chosen by the French Protection Procurement Company, DGA, to provide its ANAFI micro-drones to equip the French Armies.
Henri Seydoux, Chairman, CEO, founder and principal shareholder of Parrot concludes: “We’re very proud to have gained this tender from the DGA and to maintain engaged on additional alternatives with the USA. It’s the fruit of the meticulous work carried out by our groups in France for greater than 2 years, and that of 10 years of experience. By taking the guess of creating the ANAFI platform, designed for most of the people, ruggedized for the wants of pros, and secured for the necessities of the army forces, now we have taken an essential step for the Group. In at this time’s world, Parrot is satisfied that it’s key for safety forces, and armies, to depend on highly effective, high-tech shopper tools that’s extremely safe.”
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The chosen ANAFI micro-drone is specifically tailored for worldwide forces, presents troopers a micro-drone of 500 grams with day and evening commentary capabilities. With a flight time of 32 minutes, it has the very best efficiency in its class. The 5-year contract covers a number of hundred drones, the event of variations and the upkeep of apparatus and software program. The primary programs will likely be delivered within the upcoming months.
ANAFI drone extends the reconnaissance capabilities of the French forces. Because of its highly effective 32x zoom, articulated round two 4K 21-megapixel cameras, the detection of person-sized targets is feasible as much as 2km away with an in depth accuracy of 13cm. The zoom photos are merged with these obtained by the FLIR Boson thermal imaging digital camera; the latter permits the detection of scorching spots by day and by evening. Deployable in 55 seconds, it’s also very discreet: with a sound signature of 79 dB at a distance of 1m, it’s inaudible from 130m.
Because of the technological partnerships carried out by Parrot with main gamers of their fields, customers also can profit from the rising ecosystem of suitable software program. For instance, they’ll handle drone fleets in real-time (Skyward, A Verizon firm and DroneSense), generate seen and thermal images/movies (Survae) and tactical maps (Pix4Dreact). Parrot’s R&D companies are additionally deliberate to additional adapt ANAFI USA to the wants of the French forces.
ANAFI additionally meets the DGA necessities when it comes to safety. Securing the connection, securing the information, securing the firmware: it meets probably the most stringent cybersecurity requirements. A digital signature protects in opposition to malicious makes an attempt to change the drone’s software program. The drone permits mission knowledge to be recorded solely on the bottom phase, not within the air vector, extracted afterward for evaluation, by bodily connection. ANAFI USA has a safe WPA2 connection and open protocols that assure confidence within the interoperability of recorded knowledge for confidential missions.
ANAFI drone system is fully developed in France and produced in america. No important elements are produced in China.
